The King´s Agent (Classic Reprint)
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Paterson, Arthur) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from The King´s Agent A sharp, frosty evening in January, 1692. A full moon shone from a cloudless sky and silvered the roofs of the high gabled houses in the fashionable quarters of town, and even straggled fitfully down into the narrow, ill-paved, uninviting streets below. It was a night when, in the city of London of those days, no man who had anything to lose embarked upon a journey without providing himself with an armed escort. Not only were the professional gentlemen of the highway numerous and bold, but deserters from the army and navy, "pressed" men who had escaped but dared not return to their native villages, infested the large towns, begging by day, and robbing by night. Not a street but was patrolled by these lost dogs, not a beer-house but served them as a house of call, and on such a night as this they turned out in formidable numbers. On this particular evening certain of these men had hardly taken up their regular beats in a street near Pall Mall, when they saw something which caused them to speed swiftly to a well-considered point of vantage, crouch beneath the long, sinister shadows of the house, and wait with eager eyes. A gentleman, unattended except by a lantern bearer - a wizened old man - and with only a light rapier carried negligently under one arm, was strolling down the street at a leisurely pace. 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.
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