"Le Monsieur de la Petite Dame"

By Frances Hodgson Burnett

Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett is best known for writing books for kids, and her classic A Little Princess, originally published in 1905, is considered one of literature's best children's novels.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Krill Press
• Release date: Jan 6, 2016
• ISBN: 9781518359491

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849–1924) was an English-American author and playwright. She is best known for her incredibly popular novels for children, including Little Lord Fauntleroy, A Little Princess, and The Secret Garden.

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LE MONSIEUR DE LA PETITE DAME

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Frances Hodgson Burnett

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Copyright, 1877

Le Monsieur de la Petite Dame

By

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Le Monsieur de la Petite Dame

Published by Silver Scroll Publishing

New York City, NY

First published circa 1924

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COPYRIGHT, 1877

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IT WAS MADAME WHO FIRST entered the box, and Madame was bright with youthful bloom, bright with jewels, and, moreover, a beauty. She was a little creature, with childishly large eyes, a low, white forehead, reddish-brown hair, and Greek nose and mouth.

Clearly, remarked the old lady in the box opposite, not a Frenchwoman. Her youth is too girlish, and she has too petulant an air of indifference.

This old lady in the box opposite was that venerable and somewhat severe aristocrat, Madame de Castro, and having gazed for a moment or so a little disapprovingly at the new arrival, she turned her glasses to the young beauty’s companion and uttered an exclamation.

It was at Monsieur she was looking now. Monsieur had followed his wife closely, bearing her fan and bouquet and wrap, and had silently seated him self a little behind her and in the shadow.

Ciel! cried Madame de Castro, what an ugly little man!

It was not an unnatural exclamation. Fate had not been so kind to the individual referred to as she might have been—in fact she had been definitely cruel. He was small of figure, insignificant, dark, and wore a patient sphynx-like air of gravity. He did not seem to speak or move, simply sat in the shadow holding his wife’s belongings, apparently almost entirely unnoticed by