The Seven Cardinal Sins: Indolence Envy (Classic Reprint) Paperback -

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Excerpt from The Seven Cardinal Sins: Indolence Envy IN the year 1828 any tourist who was on his way from Blois to the little town of Pont Brillant to visit - as travellers seldom fail to do - the famous castle of that name, the magnificent feudal abode of the Marquises Pont Brillant, would have been obliged to pass a farm house standing near the edge of the road, about two miles from the chateau. If this lonely dwelling attracted the attention of the traveller, he would have been almost certain to have regarded it with mingled melancholy and disgust as one of the too numerous Specimens of hideous rural archi tecture in France, even when these habitations belong to persons possessed of a competence. This establishment consisted of a large barn and storehouse, with two long wings in the rear. The interior of the sort of parallelo gram thus formed served as a courtyard, and was filled with piles of manure rotting in pools of stagnant water, for cow, horse, and sheep stables all opened into this enclosure, where all sorts of domestic animals, from poultry to hogs, were scratching and rooting. 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.