Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1851. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER III. " The ancient thrones of Christendom are stuff For occupation of a magic wand, And 'tis the Pope that wields it,-whether rough Or smooth his front, our world is in his hand." Wosnswoarrr. THE day was fast closing in, while a small body of retainers, of the old feudal age, was waiting with growing impatience the descent of their lord hom the upper stories of the castle in which the scenes of the previous chapters of this history had transpired. The greater number of them sat in the calm, expressionless discipline of a well-conditioned soldiery. Their morions were burnished, and carefully fitted to the head; their breast-plates, and so, likewise, their hauberks, were equally indicative of habit and precaution. And each guardsman held his lance with a firm calmness,-looking out, however, for his chieftain, whose arrival would be a signal for religious as well as for feudatory homage. But some hour or more transpired, and the troop was becoming restless, when there came forth from the postern a noble-looking man, clad in mail, yet with a surcoat so marked with ecclesiastical emblems, that no observer could mistake his high priestly and feudal dignity. "To Spires, and to the palace of the Emperor!" was his brief command to an officer that had placed himself near the gate. They rode onward through the small park of the domain; then entered on the high road to the city. The little troop had duly marshalled itself; but--strange to say, for it was such an unaccustomed habit of their lord--all their minute and careful and deferential movements obtained from him no one word of high companion-like sympathy: and they became dispirited and silent. But as their leader--priest and soldier as he was--rode onward in their front, what terrible parox...
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