Excerpt from The Nymph Only three deaths, Madame la Marquise, and one of them was a suicide. The young Priest checked a derisive smile. N 0 one seated at this refined dinner-table could see any difference between a death and a suicide, as far as church fees were concerned, and they all wondered what hidden sense of humour prompted the hilarity of their good shepherd. A silence ensued, during which the guests busied them selves with the contents of their plates; whilst the servants paraded noiselessly round the table, pouring out wine, and helping the fish which had been caught that morning in the Loire. 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.