Excerpt from Dead Men's Shoes, Vol. 3 of 3: A Novel I have been told what you did yesterday even ing, ' answers Linda, gravely. What, my little escapade with one of your amiable neighbours, ' cries Alexis, lightly. 'you don't mean to say people have been talking of such a trifle as that? I think I taught the gentleman that it's bad manners to laugh at a sick man.' Was it for laughing at you that you struck him, Mr. Secretan asks Linda. 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.