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Excerpt from Bel-Ami One Evening, an Artifice and Other Stories As he had a good carriage, both naturally and from this military training, he drew himself up, twirled his moustache, and threw upon the lingering customers a rapid and sweeping glance one of those glances which take in everything within their range like a cast ing net. The women looked up at him in turn three little work-girls, a middle-aged music mistress, disheveled, untidy, and wearing a bonnet always dusty and a dress always awry; and two shopkeepers' wives dining with their husbands all regular customers at this slap-bang establishment. 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.