The Silver Cross Classic Reprint

Excerpt from The Silver Cross When I left my lodging the bell of St. Genevieve was striking eleven o'clock; a fine close rain was falling and the night was very dark, but I was well wrapped, and had my rapier to my hand under my cloak. The adventure was so entirely to my mind that the Deluge would not have stopped me - not the Deluge nor the swords of all the midnight stabbers of the Rue St. Antoine. Indeed I have always thought that darkness, danger, and mystery lend an unspeakable attraction to an assignation, adding as they do, the fine excitement of unforeseen adventure to the intoxication of intrigue. But this incident promised no ordinary attraction. In the first place fortune had been running strong in my favour for some weeks. 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.