Excerpt from A Great Man of the Provinces in Paris Moreover, Madame de Bargeton seemed to Lucien more dignified, more thoughtful than she ought to be at a moment when their happiness was about to begin without alloy. But be had no chance to complain for Gentil and Albertine were both in the room serving dinner. The dinner, too, was far from being the abundant, generous meal of the provinces; the dishes, skimped by careful measurement, came from a neigh boring restaurant and were ill-served and meanly por tioned. Paris is not liberal in the little things of life to which persons of moderate means are condemned. Ln cien awaited the end of the dinner to question Louise, in whom be perceived a change that was to him inex plicable. He was not mistaken. A serious event for reflections are events in the mental life had hap pened while he Slept. 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.