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Excerpt from Ottilie Aster's Silence
Bertrand Aster, returning from his daily morning walk, turned with slow step into the quiet suburban street in which his dwelling stood. High elms, whose branches were just beginning to bud, formed a shady aisle in the street, while, on each side of the broad avenue, beautiful, well-tended grass plots stretched like a long, green ribbon between the pavement and the house-line. The curtains were not yet drawn back from the glis tening windows. Now and then a door was opened to permit a child to go out, or to receive a letter from the postman, but few other signs of life were visible; the whole street seemed yet asleep. The pavements were moist with dew, and the balmy, spring air refreshed the brow of the early pedestrian. 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.
