Excerpt from A Doctor of Philosophy Nevertheless he still possessed some of the outward marks of his ancient race. After his lights, albeit they were not brill iant indeed, he was a gentleman that is, if you measured him by his own definition of what a gentleman should be. One thing he did possess, and that was a full measure of the courage which had made the orig inal Huguenot, de Vyault, brave the press ure of the Grand Monarch until the revo cation of the Edict of Nantes beggared him in fortune and drove him to Eng land; a resolution which enabled him to survive the disgrace of being forced into manual labor for a livelihood. 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.