Excerpt from The Tents of Shem, Vol. 3 of 3 Imperfect grammar. The officer of the Genie, ablaze With medals, had taken in the wife of the neighbouring Commandant - the lady Whose husband had married her out of pure depravity; and the neighbour ing Commandant had returned the compli ment by Offering his one remaining arm to the plain and somewhat faded sister of the officer of the Grenie. Iris and Vernon Blake, thus linked by malice prepense of madame's sat Opposite the last couple at their good friend's board and Mrs. Knyvett herself, in the place of honour, forgetful for the night of her bronchial troubles, consoled that amiable cypher, M. L'administrateur, with congenial conversation in scrappy frag ments, jerked out at intervals with the purest boarding-school Parisian accent. 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.