Excerpt from The Ironmaster, Vol. 3 of 3The Duke had not come of his own free will to instal himself at La Varenne. He could not bear the country. A Parisian in his soul, the plane-trees of the Boulevards and the chestnut-trees of the Champs-Elysées seemed to him quite sufficient verdure. His club, where ho passed his afternoons and the greater part of his evenings, formed the basis of his life. He was in nowise contemplative and detested reading.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.