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Alphonse Daudet

L'évangéliste: A Parisian Novel

Paperback (Forgotten Books Oct. 24, 2017)
Excerpt from L'évangéliste: A Parisian NovelMadame Ebsen sank upon a chair crushed and motionless, the folds of her woolen mourning dress falling around her. She had not strength even to remove her shawl and her hat, on which a stiff crape veil rose in sharp points around her large kindly face, all swollen with tears. Wiping her eyes energetically, she at last began to enumerate in a loud voice all the virtues of her who had gone - her goodness, her gayety, her courage, and told so many episodes of her own life and that of her daughter, that a stranger admitted to this scene would have learned the entire history of the family. He would have heard how Monsieur Ebsen, an engineer of Copenhagen, ruined by his inventions, came to Paris twenty years before to obtain a patent for an electric clock which had never gone as was desired - and how the inventor died, leaving his wife alone with the old mother, and so poor that she did not know what was to become of her in her confinement.Ah! Without grandmother then, what would have been done - without grandmother and her brave little crochet needle which she made fly day and night working hand guipure, which at that time was little known in Paris, and which the old dame went bravely forth to sell at the shops.In this way she kept the house going and got a good nurse for little Eline - but those circles of fine lace injured her eyes. Dear, dear grandmother!About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.
ISBN
1527641694 / 9781527641693
Pages
286
Weight
13.6 oz.
Dimensions
6.0 x 0.6 in.

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