Excerpt from The Panelled Room "Sapristi! But he is a droll one - that solemn little Jacques Poulard! He can - how is it you say it in English? - oh yes - he can 'pull the leg' so that the leg's owner thinks our little Jacques is as wise as that old Voltaire. See the big one he has in tow now. Jacques is making him think this is the Folies Marigny. A fat bourgeois - away from his wife and pigs. Wants to be a devil for a week; but must be sure he gets his money's worth. Ah, well, Jacques will see to his money. The purse will go flat - so - so." The speaker, a petite brunette, pressed her finger tips together, slowly and softly; then blew a kiss with her finger tips in the air. "Good-bye, pretty gold pieces! Ah, bah! But I pity that fat pig's wife!" She looked at the girl on the other side of the table. "Have you danced with the pig yet, Rosalie? He has the hug of a bear." 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.