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Excerpt from Her Dearest Foe: A Novel The sounds were slowly, brokenly uttered, as though the mechanism that had produced them had well-nigh run down for ever. The speaker lay helplessly back upon his pillow, his gray hair disordered, ashy pale, with the shadow of the great King already on his brow - a somewhat rugged, but not ignoble face - the lines about the mouth, so hard in life, relaxed - the keen, stern eyes dim and dreamy. 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.