Excerpt from Petits Chateaux de Bohême: Prose Et PoésieLe bon bogier' souriait dans sa barbe, du haut d'une échelle, où il peignait sur un des trois dessus de glace un Neptune, qui lui ressemblait! Puis, les-deux battants d'une porte s'ouvrment avec fracas c'é tait, Théophile. On s'empre'ssait de lui offi ir un fauteuil Louis XIII, et il lisait, à son tour, ses premiers vers, pendant que Cydalisellê, ou Lorry, ou Victorine, se ha lançaient nonchalamment dans le hamac de Sarah la blonde, tendu a travers l'immense salon.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.