Found Wanting, Vol. 1 of 2

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Excerpt from Found Wanting, Vol. 1 of 2: A Novel In one of the older, narrower streets of Paris, between the Champs Elysees and the Rue St. Honore, a fiacre had drawn up one sharp, frosty afternoon, at the entrance of a large house, the handsome portecochère of which stood partly open, showing a paved yard, with a grass-plot, in the centre of which stood a large acacia-tree, now brown and bare. From the fiacre descended a lady, no longer young, who wore a cloak of velvet and sable, a black bonnet with crimson feathers fitted becomingly over the dark glossy bandeaux of her hair, suiting her complexion and keen dark eyes, she paid the driver with a delicately gloved hand, and entered. "Madame Falk?" she said, in a questioning tone to the concierge, who was darning stockings just inside the glass door of her lodge. "Is out, madame, " said that functionary, who had risen to speak with the visitor. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.