Excerpt from The Woman in the Shadow <p>Because the highways everywhere were choked with refugees from the fast-shrinking frontiers, the foothills overrun with soldiers beating home from defeat and taking toll as they went of the land which permitted its new spokesmen to disown them, Gisella was careful to restrict her rides to the neighbourhood of the chateau; so seldom met a soul other than some lout Of a peasant tenant, seldom saw a Sight more cheering than vistas of a countryside sullen In the clamp of frost or sullenly taking the scourge of those pitiless cold pours. She all but forgot how to hope. <p>About the Publisher <p>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com <p>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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