Excerpt from Gavarni in London: Sketches of Life and Character; With Illustrative Essays by Popular Writers I thought you looked stupid, and as I have the box to myself, you are as well here as there. Stupid 1 Did the Marchionesses think so? We ventured to hint that it was a brilliant night. The grim and snuffy barrister looked positively sublime (soulie says that the manifestation of any passion, good or bad, in excess, is sublime) with contempt. 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.