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Háfiz; a story of adventure and romance, told from old family love letters written during the exciting events of the baronial feuds of seventeen ... and now given to the world for the first time
Estelle Hempstead Manning-Brewer
Paperback. RareBooksClub.com 2013-09-13.
ISBN 9781230004396
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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. 1902 edition. Excerpt: ... glow of anger, as she answered, " I was returning the visit you paid to the tower some time ago when you wore a cloak of purple velvet." ' If you are going to honor me so far as to return all the visits I have made to the tower, I shall have to remain at home at least a hundred nights to receive you. I often wear a purple cloak, so I am unable to distinguish the particular visit of which you now speak. But come, why should we quarrel, when there is much to be said and done before I follow my orders and join my beloved General, Marechal de Berwick, at his siege of Kell." A sneer crossed the face of the Comtesse, and she said, in a quiet, insulting tone, " I recognize the affinity between you and James Fitz-James, Duc de Berwick." "I can scarcely hope you mean his ability, integrity, great courage, and his many, many virtues, 'which cause him to be honored by both the English and the French. Son of an English king and nephew of the great Duke of Marlborough, he has served France as few of her own!sons have done, much less an adopted son.' As he paused, the Comtesse replied, "You will, however, admit that natural children, be they ever so great, have much need of adoption." "Not such as Marechal Berwick. Only those whom God hath joined together, be it with or without human laws and sanction, could elevate and enrich the human race as ithe birth of this man has done; and his mother, Arabella Churchill, and his father, James the Second, have no shame in such an offspring." "It is quite fitting that you should find his position defensible, " retorted the Comtesse. "I am not defending him, he needs no defense. Were he not above all reproach, as he is, he is not the one to blame; nor
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