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Excerpt from Scribes and Pharisees: A Story of Literary London
The man who knew the beloved old Quartier in those well-remembered days, and now revisits it, will sigh to note everywhere a change. If he forsakes the present, leaves the busy Rue de Rivoli, crosses the Pont Neuf, and plunges for a brief hour into the past, he will soon discern that Bohemia no longer exists there. Its old-world charm has passed away, because it has become modernised, and has assumed a sorry air of mock gentility. Let him glance up at the four well-remembered top windows of that dingy looking house on the Quai Montebello, the grey front of which faces the Seine, and he will actually discover lace curtains there! Alas! That the grisette died with Murger and Musset. 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.
