The Adventures of Antoine Author:Harry Collinson Owen General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1922 Original Publisher: The James A. McCann Company Subjects: Fiction / Classics History / General Literary Collections / General Literary Criticism / General Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprin... more »t of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER III THE XING OF PARIS Monsieuh. Augtjste MoEissoT, Political Director of La Lumiere, was sitting in his office late one evening writing a furious attack on the reigning Government. "Never in the history of the Third Republic has such a spiritless, invertebrate gang of nondescripts . . ." he had begun -- when suddenly the electric light went out. "Peste!" he exclaimed. "Who has done that?" He waited in the darkness, expecting momentarily that the light would come on again. But the darkness' continued. Furious, he rang his bell. Then, looking through the window, he noticed that the lights on the Boulevard were also extinguished. At the same moment there were sounds of running feet in the corridors of the office, and a cry went up for candles. "Ten thousand devils!" growled Morissot. "It must be that scoundrel of a Merlou again. What a country!" Biting, scathing sentences revolved in has brain, but he could not put them down to the account of the Government as he was still in darkness. In a few moments faint lights twinkled here and there. On the terrace of the big cafe opposite, Morissot could see waiters running about, with candles, stuck hurriedly into the necks of bottles. Morissot waited impatiently, beating a tattoo on thedesk with his fingers. But he remained in darkness. "A mai -- candles!" he roared. But still nobody came to his rescue. "Ah, but this is insupp...« less