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    Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 10
    Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 10
    Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 10
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    Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 10

    By Edward Bulwer Lytton

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    Edward Bulwer-Lytton was a well known English novelist in the 19th century, and he's been immortalized for coining famous phrases like  "pursuit of the almighty dollar" and "the pen is mightier than the sword".


    In addition to being a politician, he wrote across all genres, from horror stories to historical fiction and action titles.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKrill Press
    Release dateJan 13, 2016
    ISBN9781518369087
    Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 10
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    Edward Bulwer Lytton

    Edward Bulwer-Lytton, engl. Romanschriftsteller und Politiker, ist bekannt geworden durch seine populären historischen/metaphysischen und unvergleichlichen Romane wie „Zanoni“, „Rienzi“, „Die letzten Tage von Pompeji“ und „Das kommende Geschlecht“. Ihm wird die Mitgliedschaft in der sagenumwobenen Gemeinschaft der Rosenkreuzer nachgesagt. 1852 wurde er zum Kolonialminister von Großbritannien ernannt.

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      Harold - Edward Bulwer Lytton

      HAROLD : THE LAST OF THE SAXON KINGS — VOLUME 10

      ..................

      Edward Bulwer-Lytton

      SILVER SCROLL PUBLISHING

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      This book is a work of fiction; its contents are wholly imagined.

      All rights reserved. Aside from brief quotations for media coverage and reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced or distributed in any form without the author’s permission. Thank you for supporting authors and a diverse, creative culture by purchasing this book and complying with copyright laws.

      Copyright © 2016 by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      BOOK X.: THE SACRIFICE ON THE ALTAR.: CHAPTER I.

      CHAPTER II.

      CHAPTER III.

      CHAPTER IV.

      CHAPTER V.

      CHAPTER VI.

      CHAPTER VII.

      CHAPTER VIII.

      CHAPTER IX.

      CHAPTER X.

      Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 10

      By

      Edward Bulwer-Lytton

      Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 10

      Published by Silver Scroll Publishing

      New York City, NY

      First published circa 1873

      Copyright © Silver Scroll Publishing, 2015

      All rights reserved

      Except in the United States of America, this book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.

      About SILVER SCROLL PUBLISHING

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      BOOK X.: THE SACRIFICE ON THE ALTAR.: CHAPTER I.

      ..................

      THE GOOD BISHOP ALRED, NOW raised to the See of York, had been summoned from his cathedral seat by Edward, who had indeed undergone a severe illness, during the absence of Harold; and that illness had been both preceded and followed by mystical presentiments of the evil days that were to fall on England after his death. He had therefore sent for the best and the holiest prelate in his realm, to advise and counsel with.

      The bishop had returned to his lodging in London (which was in a Benedictine Abbey, not far from the Aldgate) late one evening, from visiting the King at his rural palace of Havering; and he was seated alone in his cell, musing over an interview with Edward, which had evidently much disturbed him, when the door was abruptly thrown open, and pushing aside in haste the monk, who was about formally to announce him, a man so travel-stained in garb, and of a mien so disordered, rushed in, that Alred gazed at first as on a stranger, and not till the intruder spoke did he recognise Harold the Earl. Even then, so wild was the Earl’s eye, so dark his brow, and so livid his cheek, that it rather seemed the ghost of the man than the man himself. Closing the door on the monk, the Earl stood a moment on the threshold, with a breast heaving with emotions which he sought in vain to master; and, as if resigning the effort, he sprang forward, clasped the prelate’s knees, bowed his head on his lap, and sobbed aloud. The good bishop, who had known all the sons of Godwin from their infancy, and to whom Harold was as dear as his own child, folding his hands over the Earl’s head, soothingly murmured a benediction.

      No, no, cried the Earl, starting to his feet, and tossing the dishevelled hair from his eyes, bless me not yet! Hear my tale first, and then say what comfort, what refuge, thy Church can bestow!

      Hurriedly then the Earl poured forth the dark story, already known to the reader,—the prison at Belrem, the detention at William’s court, the fears, the snares, the discourse by the riverside, the oath over the relics. This told, he continued, I found myself in the open air, and knew not, till the light of the sun smote me, what might have passed into my soul. I was, before, as a corpse which a witch raises from the dead, endows with a spirit not its own—passive to her hand— life-like, not living. Then, then it was as if a demon had passed from my body, laughing scorn at the foul things it had made the clay do. O, father, father! is there not absolution from this oath,—an oath I dare not keep? rather perjure myself than betray my land!

      The prelate’s face was as pale as Harold’s, and it was some moments before he could reply.

      "The Church can loose and unloose—such is its delegated authority.

      But speak on; what saidst thou at the last to William?"

      "I know not, remember not—aught save these words. ‘Now, then, give me those for whom I placed myself in thy power; let me restore Haco to his fatherland, and Wolnoth to his mother’s kiss, and wend home my way.’ And, saints in heaven! what was the answer of this caitiff Norman, with his glittering eye and venomed smile? ‘Haco thou shalt have, for he is an orphan and an uncle’s love is not so hot as to burn from a distance; but Wolnoth, thy mother’s son, must stay with me as a hostage for thine own faith. Godwin’s hostages are released; Harold’s hostage I retain: it is but a form, yet these forms are the bonds of princes.’

      "I looked at him, and his

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