Excerpt from Little Gervaise: And Other Stories For a moment Ger vaise stood looking at him, her eyes blazing with indignation. Would he never give her credit for what she did: would he never put her upon a level with himself; would he always despise her, wound her, jeer at her; would it always be the same? Would she go on year after year until she was a grown woman, and would Paul, whom she loved so much, whom she looked up to and almost reverenced, would he never understand that there was something in her that even a clown could not touch? But no: it could not go on forever; no, no, not even though his father was very powerful, one of the most celebrated clowns in France, for a day would come Thou wilt have to go for a soldier, she burst out indignantly. 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.