Excerpt from Aventures Extraordinaires d'un Savant RusseSes épaules étroites, sa poitrine à peine accusée, sa taille mince et ¿exible, ses bras un peu grêles indiquaient de seize a'dix-sept ans, mais à voir son front grave et le pli qui se creusait à la commissure des lèvres, on lui en eût donné vingt.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.