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In this Castle of holm-peel the great king-maker, Richard, Earl of Warwick, was confined, during one period of his eventful life, to ruminate at leisure on his farther schemes of ambition. And here, too, Eleanor, the haughty wife of the good Duke of Gloucester, pined out in seclusion the last days of her banishment. The sentinels pretended that her discontented spectre was often visible at night, traversing the battlements of the external walls, or standing motionless beside a particular solitary turret of one of the watch-towers with which they are flanked; but dissolving into air at cock-crow, or when the bell tolled from the yet remaining tower of Saint Germain's church.
Such was holm-peel, as records inform us, till towards the end of the seventeenth century.
It was in one of the lofty, but almost unfurnished apartments of this ancient Castle that Julian Pev eril found his friend the Earl of Derby, who had that moment sat down to a breakfast composed of various sorts of fish. Welcome, most imperial Julian, he said; welcome to our royal fortress; in which, as yet, we are not like to be starved with hunger, though wellnigh dead for cold.
Julian answered by enquiring the meaning of this sudden movement.
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In this Castle of holm-peel the great king-maker, Richard, Earl of Warwick, was confined, during one period of his eventful life, to ruminate at leisure on his farther schemes of ambition. And here, too, Eleanor, the haughty wife of the good Duke of Gloucester, pined out in seclusion the last days of her banishment. The sentinels pretended that her discontented spectre was often visible at night, traversing the battlements of the external walls, or standing motionless beside a particular solitary turret of one of the watch-towers with which they are flanked; but dissolving into air at cock-crow, or when the bell tolled from the yet remaining tower of Saint Germain's church.
Such was holm-peel, as records inform us, till towards the end of the seventeenth century.
It was in one of the lofty, but almost unfurnished apartments of this ancient Castle that Julian Pev eril found his friend the Earl of Derby, who had that moment sat down to a breakfast composed of various sorts of fish. Welcome, most imperial Julian, he said; welcome to our royal fortress; in which, as yet, we are not like to be starved with hunger, though wellnigh dead for cold.
Julian answered by enquiring the meaning of this sudden movement.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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