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Excerpt from The Secret Orchard
On the crest of the western hills, midway between the heights of Versailles and the forest Of St. Ger main, within three leagues of the bastioned walls of the capital, Luciennes sits proudly, rare specimen Of the country mansion such as old France loved to build; not only unmolested, but unrenovated' and (yet more admirable fortune!) still in the hands Of the family for which it was erected. 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.
