Excerpt from Honore De Balzac in Twenty-Five Volumes, Vol. 17 of 25: A Most Mysterious Case; An Episode Under the Terror; The Seamy Side of History; Z. Marcas Before he made answer Michu looked at his dog, which, stretched at full length and basking in the warm sunshine, his head cradled between his extended paws in the pretty attitude characteristic of animals of his breed, had raised his head, and, looking straight before him, was scenting the breeze, now down the long avenue that stretched away for a quarter of a league, now in the direction of a crossroad that debouched into the round-point on the left. 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."