Excerpt from The Countess Pharamond: A Sequel to "Sheba" To escape her thraldom, which threatened to overtax his patience and his resources, the Count Pharamond took him self off abruptly to safer, if less civilized, regions. This had all happened some years ago, and now Count Pharamond had returned to his beloved Boulevards - returned enriched by a new fortune to which he had unexpectedly succeeded and accompanied - to the no small curiosity of society - bya wife whom he had met and married at the Antipodes. These events had been duly circulated in fashionable journals, and discussed by the Count's former acquaintances previous to the advent of the Countess Pharamond herself. 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.