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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER IV. UP TO THE HILLS. URE enough, the weaver stood on the step of the door, booted and spurred, when the trembling old man appeared with his lantern leading out Barbe-Noire from the low gateway of the mews. It was long since .Jean Waldo had saddled and bridled a horse for himself, but he had not forgotten the arts of his boyhood, and the Arab needed no care because his master was his groom. At the same moment Giulio the Florentine appeared from above, and as Prinhac mounted promptly, Giulio put his hand over the mane of the horse, and almost in a whisper, though they three were all alone in the night, he gave the young fellow precise directions whereand how Lugio was to be found. Prinhac bent in the saddle, listened carefully, and repeated the directions, to be sure that he had not mistaken them. ' Never fear me, then ' he said, spurred his horse, and was away. ' He must cross the bridge before sundown, ' cried poor Jean Waldo to the rider, himself startled as he remembered how narrow was the range thus given. ' Never fear, ' was still the cheerful answer, and Prinhac disappeared into the night. The ride across the narrow peninsula which parts the Saone from the Rhone, and is to-day covered by the most beautiful part of the city of Lyons, took but a few minutes, ?and the rider was soon at the long, narrow bridge over the larger river, which had been temporarily constructed, by the direction of Richard of the Lion Heart, after the ruin of the year before. ' The old man bids us return before sunset. He has forgotten that I have started before sunrise.' This was the F thought which amused Prinhac so that even a smile curled over his hard face as he rode up to the gateway of the bridge. The truth was, that no passage was permitted before sunrise, under the .
| ISBN-13 | 9780217494465 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217494463 |
| Weight | 0.43 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.29 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 124 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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