Excerpt from Valserine, and Other Stories: English and French Versions The gendarme got tired of calling. He shook the door again, and then put his face close up to the window pane trying to look into the inside of the house. Valserine went up to the window at once. She had recognized him as one of the gens darmes from the village of Sept moncel, the one who had such a pretty little daughter with whom she had played sometimes. 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.