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Excerpt from The Vicissitudes of a Life, Vol. 1 of 3: A Novel One's first advent to such a town, however, can never be particularly gay. The circum stances which brought me there, and detained me there for a long time, could not be matters of interest for the general public, but I will own that the first daylight view of the city, though striking and in some degree beautiful - and there are few towns for which I have such a lingering love, perhaps on the same motives which made De Coucy love Fontenoy - was in some degree dull and monotonous; and before I delivered the few letters of intro duction which I brought with me, I took a stroll through the streets, with no very pleasant feeling or anticipation. 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.
