The Seven Houses (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Seven Houses In his padded settle by the gaping western hearth of the great hall sat Guy de Lhoeac, Seigneur of that name and Seventh Suzerain in direct succession. For all that it was no more than mid September a birch log had hung flaming on the huge brass dogs since sunset, and from time to time he leant forward, warming himself: since, in spite of its dregs of passions, the blood of old age is chilly. At the fall of the dusk - and in the dimly-lit, cavernous hall of Chateau Lhoeac, grey and gloomy even in the full of a summers moon, the dusk fell swiftly - the wenches had brought lights, but the Seigneur had harshly bidden them begone, speaking with less than even his scant courtesy, and then turned back and stared afresh at the red embers. Five times in his three hours vigil he had leaped to his feet in a quick impulse of impatience and paced the broad hall up and down with a tread whose firmness told little of his five-and-seventy years of hard-lived life. Up and down, up and down, his shortened scabbard battering against his left heel as he walked. 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.