Excerpt from High-Ways and by-Ways, Vol. 2 of 3: Or Tales of the Roadside, Picked Up in the French Provinces Some way with her friends or Melchior's enemies to her recovered confidence, and again recurring apprehensions on the visit of Serjeant Passep tout, and the murderer - from the mention of whom she shrunk. As for me, I at times doubted the identity of the person who now conversed with me so freely. I felt often as if something was wanting to the reality of the scene; as if the hut was but half furnished with its stock of mortal moveables, and that the limping, hooded, and fancied ugly girl should be there, to make all real' and right. More than once did Mal? Vide gratify my somewhat sceptical anxiety, by arranging her capulet as she was wont to do in her disguise, and sportively mimicking her own voice and gesture - and I have been startled, while she limped before me, as though I gazed on the accurate likeness of some well known but unpleasing object. Her hood thrown aside, and her beauteous face beaming out, I was again both satisfied and contented as to her identity. 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.