Excerpt from Cloud and Sunshine: Noir Et Rose; Two Love Stories The great clock Of the H6te1 de Ville at Dieppe had just struck ten when the iron gate of one of the most imposing houses in the Rue Aguado Opened to allow the exit of a tall, graceful, young girl, her fair and brilliant complexion made more dazzling still by her earnest dark blue eyes. She wore a pretty sailor costume with gold anchors embroidered on the large collar, and deep gold lace on the sleeves. She was accompanied by an elderly lady, dressed in black silk, with a bell-shaped hat of plaited straw, who carried two sunshades and a binocular. 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.