The Loyalist's Daughter, or Tale of the Revolution, Vol. 3 of 4 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from The Loyalist's Daughter, or Tale of the Revolution, Vol. 3 of 4

The fugitive queen whom we left, after her rough and boisterous voyage, on the 1lth December at Calais, had endured the most heart-rending agonies and fears for the fate of her royal husband, before any tidings of his real situation reached her. One courier reported that his Majesty had landed at Brest another at Boulogne; a third, that he had been arrested in England a fourth kind comforter announced for certain that the vessel in which the king was embarked had foundered in a terrible storm, that his Majesty With all on board had perished.

Scarcely had two days of anxious suspense Worn away, when Mary Beatrice, in the hope of hearing something more certain, left Calais fol.

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Excerpt from The Loyalist's Daughter, or Tale of the Revolution, Vol. 3 of 4

Yet was there light around her brow,
A holiness in those dark eyes,
Which show'd - though wandering earthward now, -
Her spirit's home was in the skies. - Moore.

Such was this daughter of the southern seas. - Byron.

The action of our tale has necessarily been so closely compressed within such a very short period - not more than about ten days - that we have so far been able to notice the most remarkable of the particulars crowded into each day as it passed. For the future, however, as the narrative extends over months and years, we must pass over with a general statement circumstances which do not immediately involve the persons in whom the reader is the most interested.

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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.