Excerpt from With Fate Against Him Bertrand duchesne levasseur brought no plebeian blood into the family when. He married Edith Gilliat. His daughter, sitting in state this autumn morning, might have been a queen three hundred years ago, as handsome, I suppose, as the French ancestress who did sit upon a throne. But she was Miss Beatrice Levasseur, dependent upon her grandfather, who lay dying. She had passed her first girlhood - women of this stamp outgrow it early. Not that she was faded, only it seemed as if there had never been any link between her and childhood. From bibs and bands she must have blossomed into maturity. 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.