Excerpt from The Reverberator, Madame De Mauves: A Passionate Pilgrim, and Other Tales The anecdote consists, ever, of something that has oddly happened to some one, and the first of its duties is to point directly to the person whom it so distinguishes. He may be you or I or any one else, but a condition of our interest - perhaps the principal one - is that the anecdote shall know him, and shall accordingly speak of him, as its subject. Who is it, then, that by this rule the specimen before us adopts and sticks to? Something happens, and to a certain person, or, better, to a certain group of persons, in The Reverbemtor, but of whom, when it comes to the point, is the fable narrated? The anecdote has always a question to answer - of whom necessarily is it told Is it told here of the Proberts or of the Bossons To whom in the instance before us does the principal thing, the thing worth the telling, happen To the fatal Mr. Flack, to Francie Dosson and her father and sister, lumping them. 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.