This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 edition. Excerpt: ...indeed, do you remember the Dutchman last year who swallowed melted lead? I do not wish to'say too inuch--but just look! The black-haired nun is as pale as a corpse!" "Has she given the king poison?" exclaimed a trembling female voice close by. It was Meri, who, with bated breath, drank every word. " ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 edition. Excerpt: ...indeed, do you remember the Dutchman last year who swallowed melted lead? I do not wish to'say too inuch--but just look! The black-haired nun is as pale as a corpse!" "Has she given the king poison?" exclaimed a trembling female voice close by. It was Meri, who, with bated breath, drank every word. " What nonsense!" replied a sea-captain, with the air of knowing more than all the rest. " When I was in Stralsund last spring, I saw those same eyes, which one cannot easily forget. The girl was then brought to Stockholm, and one of the guards told me the whole story. She is a Spanish witch, who has sold herself to the evil one, to be for seven years the most beautiful woman on earth. Only look at her: do you not see that the devil has kept his word? But see, in those eyes is something dark that burns and bewitches. When she became so handsome, she went to the Swedish camp and gave the king a love-potion, so that he neither heard nor saw anybody but her for seven whole weeks. This seemed to his generals a sin and a shame, as the enemy pressed them hard; and so they took her secretly one night and sent her here, to spend the seven years of beauty at Korsholm." " Did the king love her? " asked Meri, in agitation. "I think he did," answered the sea-captain, gruflly. " Did she also love the king?" " There surely are in the whole world no more curious people than women. How the deuce can you expect me to know all about it? the evil one is smarter than other folks, that is certain. She gave the king a copper ring." " With seven circles inside each other, and three letters, engraved on the plate? " " What the deuce!--do you know that...
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