Excerpt from The Corsars: Or, Love and Lucre<br><br>Carl had lived mostly in those small French towns peopled by a shameless, shabby society Of British defalcators; and such families and boarding-houses and réam'ons surrounded him as are usually described by the term shady. And in these abodes Of vitiated talent, battered reputation, and all uncleanness, Carl had giown. Up, when he ought to have been playing cricket and football in England. And so he came to England at eighteen, with the cynicism and blasphemy Of a French comic journalist on his lips, a handsome thin face, with the expression of eight-and twenty, a keen brain, a great appetite, and a light pocket. He reverenced neither man nor woman - nor anything else, certainly not children.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.