Author: Ouida Ouida

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-01-13

Total Pages: 382

ISBN-13: 9780483035430

Excerpt from Princess Napraxine, Vol. 3 of 3 By the law of the attraction of contrasts, there had arisen a mutual attachment between her and Baron Fritz: the unscrupulous old man, for whom as for Turcaret the whole world was composed of shareholders, felt more reverence and tenderness for Yseulte than he ever felt in his life for anyone; and she, who only saw his devotion to Othmar, his admirable manners, his shrewd wit, and his paternal kind ness to herself, grew fond of, and grateful to, him, and was wholly ignorant of that merci lessness and selfishness which would have immolated all mankind to the service of his per sonal ambitions, and to which all morality or humanity appeared as absurd as they did to Fouquet or to Talleyrand. 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.