Published: 2016-11-03
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Excerpt from The Gift: A Book of Tales and Pencillings in Poetry and Prose Her orisons ended, she slowly arose, and after bending her head, and crossing her calm and high forehead before the altar, paced along the solitary chapel, and issued from it through a low, arched door. Many ights of narrow stone steps, twining upward from the foundations of the castle, upon a level with which was the chapel- oor, then con ducted her to the suite of small rooms leading into her sleep ing-chamber; then she gained a lobby, which gave entrance to what was called The Long Gallery, Of the edifice; where, finding herself alone, the lady of Ormonde blew a shrill and loud call upon the little silver whistle which hung from her neck. 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."