Excerpt from Imaginary Portraits and Gaston De Latour: An Unfinished Romance Antony Watteau comes here Often now. It is the instinct Of a natural fineness in him, to escape when he can from that blank stone house, with so little to interest, and that homely Old man and woman. The rudeness of his home has turned his feeling for even the simpler graces of life into a physical want, like hunger or thirst, which might come to greed and methinks he perhaps overvalues these things. Still, made as he is, his hard fate in that rude place must needs touch. 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.