Tales of a Grandfather;: Being Stories Taken from the History of France..Robert Cadell, Edinburgh; Whittaker and Company, London; and John Cumming, Dublin., 1831 - France - 360 pages |
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Page 287 - Paris , but his wife, a courageous and beautiful woman, who is said to have had the courage of a man and the heart of a lion...
Page 175 - ... he would grant her a boon. The knight, with an oath, promised compliance. The Queen then said, ' Sir knight, I request, on the oath you have sworn, that, should the Saracens storm this town and take it, you will cut off my head before they seize my person.
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Page 174 - Help, help;" when there was not a soul near her. For fear the fruit of her womb should perish, she made a knight watch at the foot of her bed all night without sleeping. This knight was very old, not less than eighty years, or perhaps more ; and every time she screamed he held her hands, and said, " Madam, do not be thus alarmed ; I am with you : quit these fears.