Excerpt from Cousin Betty (La Cousine Bette) In the second place, this story itself strikes hold on the reader with a force not less irresistible than that of the older and simpler Stories just referred to. As cornpared even with its companion, this force of grasp is remark able. It is not absolum criminal or contemptible to feel that Le Cumin Pom sometimes languishes and loses itself; this can never be said of the history of the evil destiny, partly personified in Elizabeth Fischer, which hovers over the house of Hulot. 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.