Feudal Events (Volume 2 ); Or, Days of Yore. an Ancient Story

by Anna Maria MacKenzie

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.1800 ... I Amazed at the submission of those rugged warriors, from whom she expected various indignities--and somewhat recovered from the horror of a scene so unexpected, the abdicated monarch passed through a city devoted to partial destruction, with a fortitude astonishing even to herself, and happily discovered the injured protector of her rights in the manner already described. To the partial detail which Maud presented for Lady de Warrene's approving concurrence, she gave an attention too discriminating for the benesit her friend, at its openingj had sought to derive from it; and, although unacquainted, for reasons already mentioned, with many of the circumstances we have elucidated, saw enough to condemn in a conduct which friendship and respect so heartily wished to' acquit; and when pressed to give her free and candid opinion of the unequivocal resentment the Empress still retained against her opponents, frankly, though modestly, declared against a resentment as irreligious, and beneath the dignity of a noble spirit. Ashamed of, and heartily repenting that weakness, which, nocwithltanding the duplicity of her representation, appeared so culpable in the eye os delicacy, Maud adverted no longer to the subject of her ieal and suppofed injuries, forbearing to add an information which Sir William de Evreux had communicated just besore the conclusion of her story by letter, namely, that the unfortunate Matilda, overpowered by the weight of reiterated calamity, was no longer in a situation to excite the. rage which had been so repeatedly exercised against her. But another piece of of intelligence, wbich followed Sir William's, convinced the Empress that the situation so long and so variously cantended for by this misjudging woman, was now to be deprived of a resour...

38 pages, Paperback

Published February 8, 2012