Excerpt from Bluebeard's Keys and Other Stories Fanny and her sister sit in a vaulted room with Windows towards the front - windows that you could scarcely distin guish from the piazza, so hidden are they amongthe marble wreaths and columns which ornament the old palace, if it were not for the birdcage and for Anne'stall lily-pots flower ing in the sun the two girls' heads are bending over their work. They are busy with harmless magic, weaving them selves into elegant young ladies out of muslin shreds and scraps and frills. The little impetuous Fanny cuts and snips and runs along the endless breadths of tarlatan. 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.