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Excerpt from Alfred de Vigny: �tude
Rome envahie, tira la barbe d'un vieux s� mateur immobile sur son banc, n'aurait peut �tre pas os� toucher, de sa main curieuse, ce visage s�rieux et impassible, dont l'oeil, dis cretjusqu'au d�dain, cache � tous le miroir d'une �me �nigmatique. 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.