The Two Brothers (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Two BrothersIN 1792 the townsmor¿e 'of Issoudun enjoyed 'the services of a physician named Rouget, whom they held 'to be a man of consummate malignity. Were we to believe certain bold tongues, he made his Wife extremely unhappy, although she was the most beautiful woman 'of the neighborhood. Perhaps, indeed, she 'was rather silly. But the prying of friends, the slander of enemies, 'and the gossip of acquaintances, had never succeeded in laying bare the interior of that household. Doctor 'rouget was a man of Whom we say in common par huw, 'he is not pleasant to deal with. Gonse quently, during his lifetime, his townsmen kept silence about him and treated him 'civilly. His wife, a demoi selle Descoings, feeble in health during her girlhood (which was said to be a reason why the doctor married her), gave birth to a son, and also 'to a daughter who arrived, unexpectedly, 'ten years after her brother, and whose birth took the husband, doctor 'though he were, by'surprise. This late-oomer was named Agathe.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.