Excerpt from The Adventures of Cyrano De BergeracToward the end of October, 1651 A. D., a horse man, at dusk passed through the gates of Chateau Fougerolles, and took the road leading to the Dordogne.He encountered a brisk wind, which lashed his face, this the cavalier heeded little, but sat upon his steed as erect as a paladin in a coat of mail.At that hour, on that sequestered road, he might have been taken for one of those pirates, who live on the purses of others.However, he had no thought of concealing himself, nor of wrongdoing.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.