Excerpt from The Queen's Necklace, Vol. 2 of 2 The lackey took the note and went out, in silent obe dience. The countess fell into a revery, in continuance of her meditations on the road from Versailles. Five minutes later the lackey returned. Well I said Madame de La Motte, with a slight accent of impatience, on seeing that her order had not been executed. 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.