Two Shall Be Born (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Two Shall Be BornWhat on the outside was a castle, - a turreted, gray, picturesque pile bulking immense and mysterious on low hilltops, with a sweep of black forest behind and a thin, marshy country before, - on the inside was something like last year's nut that the squirrels and the little boring beetles have finished with. It had borne the brunt of savage centuries, of Russian, German, Polish, and Lithuanian aggressions and reprisals, it had known the grim Brethren of the Sword, the terrible Teutonic Knights, the avenging Livonian Order. All had harrowed and winnowed it, there had been much mauling and bloodletting. But by some jape of fate it had nevertheless remained in the hands of the original proprietors, or at least their descendants the Zuleski, though, bit by bit, lands and privileges had gone, until now there was just barely enough left to keep the last lord, the noble Count Florian Sigismund Casimir, the little lady Marya Jadwiga his daughter, and Wenceslaus his servant from literally sleeping under the sky and starving to death.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.