ur Nicolas said to him gravely:--

"Do not return here, monsieur; the power of God is infinite, but human
nature has its limits."

On that day Godefroid was admitted to the order of the Brotherhood of
Consolation.

ADDENDUM

The following personages appear in other stories of the Human Comedy.
The Brotherhood of Consolation is also known by the title The Seamy Side
of History and is referred to by that title in other Addendums.

Barbet
A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
A Man of Business
The Middle Classes

Bianchon, Horace
Father Goriot
The Atheist's Mass
Cesar Birotteau
The Commission in Lunacy
Lost Illusions
A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
A Bachelor's Establishment
The Secrets of a Princess
The Government Clerks
Pierrette
A Study of Woman
Scenes from a Courtesan's Life
Honorine
The Magic Skin
A Second Home
A Prince of Bohemia
Letters of Two Brides
The Muse of the Department
The Imaginary Mistress
The Middle Classes
Cousin Betty
The Country Parson
In addition, M. Bianchon narrated the following:
Another Study of Woman
La Grande Breteche

Bonaparte, Napoleon
The Vendetta
The Gondreville Mystery
Colonel Chabert
Domestic Peace
A Woman of Thirty

Bordin
The Gondreville Mystery
The Commission in Lunacy
Jealousies of a Country Town

Bourlac, Bernard-Jean-Baptiste-Macloud, Baron de
The Peasantry

Casteran, De
The Chouans
Jealousies of a Country Town
Beatrix
The Peasantry

Cavalier
A Distinguished Provincial at Paris

Champignelles, De
The Deserted Woman

Chesnel (or Choisnel)
Jealousies of a Country Town

Cibot, Jean (alias Pille-Miche)
The Chouans

Cinq-Cygne, Laurence, Comtesse (afterwards Marquise de)
The Gondreville Mystery
The Secrets of a Princess
The Member for Arcis

Desplein
The Atheist's Mass
Cousin Pons
Lost Illusions
The Thirteen
The Government Clerks
Pierrette
A Bachelor's Establishment
Modeste Mignon
Scenes from a Courtesan's Life
Honorine

Haudry (doctor)
Cesar Birotteau