Excerpt from Fame's Pathway: A Romance of a Genius Chapelle shrugged. To him, the painted lips were as false as the jewels. Jean-baptiste was silent also. To tread the stage, and by a gesture or the modulation Of a word be knave or king, had been his dream; to hold her in his arms and speak the lines that ranting lover mouthed so badly were unrepented happiness, he thought. Her eyes burned through him, her breast was like white marble in the sunlight; small wonder he did not quell the fire within his heart, since he made no effort. 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.