God Wills It!
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN13:
9781530555178
$11.91
High noon in Italy. Without, a hot sun, a blue bay, a slow sea-breeze; within, a vaulted chamber, bare stone walls, a few blazoned pennons upon the pillars, here and there pictured tapestries, where one might see many a merry tourney and passage-at-arms. Very gentle were the footfalls, though the room was not empty: the whispers were so low that the droning buzz of a bee, which had stolen in at the narrow window, sounded loud as a mill wheel. There were a score of persons in the chamber: tonsured priests in white stoles, and monks in black cassocks; knights in silvered hauberks; a white-robed Moor with the eyes of a falcon and the teeth of a cat; and a young lad, Richard, son of Sir William the castellan, a shy boy of twelve, who sat upon the stone window seat, blinking his great eyes and wondering what it all might mean. No eye rested on the lad: the company had thought only for one object, -a figure that turned wearily on the velvet pillows, half raised itself, sank once more. Then came a thin voice, gentle as a woman's:
- | Author: William Stearns Davis
- | Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- | Publication Date: Jun 30, 2016
- | Number of Pages: 174 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 1530555175
- | ISBN-13: 9781530555178
- Author:
- William Stearns Davis
- Publisher:
- CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Publication Date:
- Jun 30, 2016
- Number of pages:
- 174 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 1530555175
- ISBN-13:
- 9781530555178