The Spanish Match
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ISBN13: 9781458905659
Paperback|9781458905659
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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: I. THE EAKL OF BEISTOL. While Charles and his attendants were examining the outside of the House of Seven Chimneys, and questioning the propriety of its designation, two persons were seated in a large lofty room on the ground floor at the rear of the mansion. They had not long returned from the Prado, and their talk was of no very serious or important matters, and chiefly referred to the persons they had met during their promenade. Both of them were very handsome-looking men of middleage, but so different in appearance that it was easy to tell at a glance that one was an Englishman and the other a Spaniard. In age the Englishman might be about forty- three, and in addition to possessing a tall and graceful figure, and a noble and prepossessing countenance, lighted by keen -grey eyes, he had an air of great distinction. His manners were polished and refined, and from his long residence in Madrid and constant intercourse with the court, he had contracted a gravity of look and deportment befitting a high-born and high-bred Castilian. His dark locks, which were cut short, so as to display a well-shaped head and lofty brow, replete with intellect, were streaked with grey, but his pointed beard and moustaches were still black. His doublet and large trunk hose were of brown velvet, and his mantle of the same materials His throat was encircled by a stiffly-starched ruff, and by his side he wore a long rapier. We need scarcely say thatthis distinguished personage was the Earl of Bristol, then English ambassador extraordinary to the court of Madrid. Endowed, as we have shown, with remarkable qualifications both of mind and body, John Digby, who was of an ancient Warwickshire family, and nearly connected with the unfortunate Sir Everard Digby, an actor in the Gunpowder Treason...
| ISBN-13 | 9781458905659 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1458905659 |
| Weight | 0.34 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.23 In |
| List Price | $16.00 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 96 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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