Excerpt from Orgeas and Miradou: With Other Pieces<br><br>But the child had taken her place. Months passed, and life became endur able - years, and life became sweet. Parents and children in France are the best of friends generally; even when no special circumstance and no peculiar demand for affection, bring them more closely together. With Orgeas there was the special circumstance and the peculiar demand. Link upon link was formed, of interest, kindness, and asso ciation. That was the visible chain. But the invisible? Well l - they were parent and child, with a mysterious and profound affinity.<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.