Excerpt from Quentin Durward, Vol. 1 of 2: A Romance When honest Dogberry sums up and recites all the claims which he had to respectability, and which, as he Opined, ought to have exempted him from the injurious appellation conferred on him by Master Gentleman Con rade, it is remarkable that he lays not more emphasis even upon his double gown, (a matter of some importance m a certain ci -devant capital which I wot of or upon his being a pretty piece of flesh as any in Messina, or even upon the conclusive argument of his being a rich fellow enough, than upon his being one that hath had losses. 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.