Found Wanting, Volume 1

by Mrs. Alexander

Excerpt: In one of the older, narrower streets of Paris, between the Champs Elysees and the Rue St. Honore, a fiacre had drawn up one sharp, frosty afternoon, at the entrance of a large house, the handsome portecochere of which stood partly open, showing a paved yard, with a grass-plot, in the centre of which stood a large acacia-tree, now brown and bare.
From the fiacre descended a lady, no longer young, who wore a cloak of velvet and sable; a black bonnet with crimson feathers fitted becomingly over the dark glossy bandeaux of her hair, suiting her complexion and keen dark eyes; she paid the driver with a delicately gloved hand, and entered.
"Madame Falk?" she said, in a questioning tone to the concierge, who was darning stockings just inside the glass door of her lodge.
"Is out, madame," said that functionary, who had risen to speak with the visitor.

284 pages, Hardcover

Published May 8, 2016

About the author

Mrs Alexander was the pseudonym assumed by Annie Hector (née Annie French) (1825-1902), novelist. Born in Dublin, she moved to Liverpool, then London. In 1845 she became a magazine writer with encouragement from Mrs [Anna Maria] Hall, issuing her first novel, Look Before You Leap, in 1865.