Tower or Throne: A Romance of the Girlhood of Elizabeth
Harriet T. Comstock
Hardcover
(Forgotten Books, Jan. 24, 2018)
Excerpt from Tower or Throne: A Romance of the Girlhood of ElizabethPon a wild March night, nearly three hundred years ago, a man lurked under a window Of a gloomy castle, and awaited a signal from one within.It was a bitter night, and, as the man crouched close to the wall, he muttered to himself, and ground his teeth in impatient fury.At last, when three O'clock of the morning had passed, the window above was Opened and a woman's hand, slim and white, dropped down through the gloom a sapphire ring. No word was spoken, the shining circlet was enough. The watcher groped for and found the signal in the grasses at his feet; then he mounted, with all speed, a horse which had been tethered near by, and rode like mad through the storm and darkness, to bear the news to Scotland's king, that Elizabeth, the mighty queen, was dead; and that he now reigned in her stead.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.