Ragland Castle

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General Books, 2013 - 148 páginas
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1843 edition. Excerpt: ... chapter vii. Words are easy as the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find; He that is thy friend indeed, He will help thee at thg need. Shakspeare's Sonnctt. It was evening. The hall of Christchurch was thronged with noblemen and officers, pacing up and down, awaiting their introduction into the Presencechamber; and long did they murmur in that vast hall, for the King was viewing the works and ramparts, and, although noted for punctuality, had delayed returning to the college. At length, however, the clamorous voices of the impatient courtiers were suddenly silenced: there was an intimation that his majesty had arrived, and that the Presence-chamber would be shortly opened. Ere that subdued and conscious feeling, which the proximity of royalty produces at the first blush, had subsided, a lady of middle age, clad in a furred mantle, masked, and attended by two gentlewomen, moved with a hasty, though stately, step through the crowd of suitors. The throng divided, and had allowed her to pass, for all knew that she was the illustrious and unfortunate Isabel, Marchioness of Winchester, whose husband had been now, for more than two years, besieged in Basing House. The lady passed on, and, issuing by a door at the corner of the hall, entered a paneled chamber where Charles sat beneath the cloth of estate: she sank on her knees before him. "Rise, Lady Winchester," said the King kindly; "we know thy suit; we know thy merit, and thy lord's loyal affection. Goring," pursued his majesty, turning to his general of Horse, "this lady, who is not inferior even to the famed Blanch of Arundel in heroic qualities, cometh to sue that we would, on sallying forth, (as thou knowest," continued the King, in a whisper, "we purpose to do, ) make Basing in our...

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