Excerpt from Lady Grizel, Vol. 3 of 3: An Impression of a Momentous Epoch There was an implacable enemy hovering above holding by a thread a sword. It was SO cruel Of the powerful deity to hold that sword at all, that it was fair to add a surreptitious string or two by any means Whatever in order to delay as long as might be its eventual fall. A good stout string and the. Fact Of the Sword was for the moment forgotten. She could dance and gambol under its threatening point. By-and-by, looking up she would perceive that the threads were frayed. Was it too late to splice the yarn? At any rate it was worth, the effort. 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.