Excerpt from The She-Wolves of Machecoul, Vol. 2 of 2: To Which Is Added, the Corsican Brothers A few moments later, Gaepard, Louis Renaud, and the Marquis de Souday entered the room. Spying Petit-Pierre, deeply buried in meditation and prayer, they stopped on the threshold; and the Marquis de Souday, who was humming a song as a salutation to the dawn, checked himself respectfully. But Petit-Pierre had heard the door open; he rose, and said to the new-comers, - "Come in, gentlemen, and forgive me for interrupting your slumbers; but I had important resolutions to make known to you." "It is for us to ask your royal Highness's pardon for having failed to anticipate your wishes, and for sleeping when we might be of service to you," said Louis Renaud. "A truce to compliments, my friend," Petit-Pierre interposed; "those appurtenances of triumphant royalty are ill suited to a time when it is sinking anew." "What do you mean?" 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.