Excerpt from A Garden of Paris To-day, when human voices are stilled for the moment, inanimate objects become lifelike and this old house begins to feel and to live. Its familiar lines become more human and it looks strangely like a friend. To the world, it shows a grave and serious front. The severe lines of its impassive facade have been turned for genera tions toward the busy street. It has seen men come and go; it has watched with quiet stoicism many a tragedy it has heard year after year the shrill cries of street vendors - cries that remain the same, although the vendors become old and pass away. Its solemn walls seem impenetrable, but from time to time the huge green doors open with a slow dignified motion and you almost expect some marvellous revelation to come forth but it is only the baker boy, whistling merrily. 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.