Excerpt from The Works of Alexandre Dumas, Vol. 8 of 9: The Queen's Necklace, a Sequel to "Memoirs of a Physician"; Taking the Bastille or Six Years Later, a Sequel to "the Queen's Necklace" In five minutes this personage made his appearance, elaborately dressed. The marshal turned toward him, and with a gravity befitting the occasion, said, Sir, I suppose you have prepared me a good dinner? 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.