Excerpt from Henry of Guise, or the States of Blois, Vol. 2 of 2 Charles of Montsoreau, in short, had left him a youth high-spirited, feeling, intelligent, graceful; he stood be fore him a man, calm, thoughtful, grave, dignified. There were even lines of care already upon his brow, which gave it a degree of sternness not natural to it; and the whole look and aspect of his former pupil was so powerfully intellectual, that the abbe felt he must be more cautious and careful than be had prepared to be; that his words, his thoughts, and his looks would not alone be tested by old affection, nor even by the simple powers of an undoubting mind, but would be tried by experience likewise, and tried, moreover, with that de gree of suspicion which is more active within us when we first learn the painful lessons taught by human dc ccit, than it is when we learn fully our own powers of separating truth from falsehood. 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.