Excerpt from In the Favour of the King The young man by the balustrade sheathed his rapier, and, drawing his cape more closely about him, turned and leaned against the stone. His form stood silhouetted sharply in the moonlight, and, as he leaned with his elbows on the balustrade, the least suggestion Of a breeze whispered faintly through a rose bush, and lightly touched his hair. The breeze faded away, and breathing again moved the tip Of the ostrich plume that decorated the hat beside him. In the valley below the garden lay Toledo, pale and quiet in the Spanish moonlight, with scarce a sound rising from it save the occasional bark Of a dog in the narrow streets. Here and there a lighted window showed its orange square in the blackness of some shadowed wall, and as the moon rose higher, light after light disappeared until the whole' city slept - seemingly deserted - quiet and at peace. 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.