In the Shadow of Midnight (1994)
In the Shadow of Midnight
“She was filled with a sudden, inexplicable sense of foreboding that had no reason or cause other than her own uncertainty as to whether she had agreed too quickly to the union with the Welsh prince; if she had been too hasty, too proud, too stubborn … too weak in accepting her uncle’s ultimatum, despite the fact that it had been of her own devising.
What other choice did she have, however? Her uncle had displayed remarkable tolerance and patience where another would simply have had her whipped ...and sent to De Braose gyved hand and foot in heavy chains. If she had balked, or refused Iorwerth after all the trouble she had caused and all of the trouble this planned foiling of the king’s command would cause …? How could she have refused? How could she have done anything less than agree to put herself into FitzRandwulf’s hands, however abhorrent the thought might be?
And so, well before the grim, ash-colored light of a second dawn rose above Amboise’s battlements, an equally grim, cold group of travellers assembled in the inner court of the bailey.MoreLess
What other choice did she have, however? Her uncle had displayed remarkable tolerance and patience where another would simply have had her whipped ...and sent to De Braose gyved hand and foot in heavy chains. If she had balked, or refused Iorwerth after all the trouble she had caused and all of the trouble this planned foiling of the king’s command would cause …? How could she have refused? How could she have done anything less than agree to put herself into FitzRandwulf’s hands, however abhorrent the thought might be?
And so, well before the grim, ash-colored light of a second dawn rose above Amboise’s battlements, an equally grim, cold group of travellers assembled in the inner court of the bailey.MoreLess
Read book In the Shadow of Midnight for free
Write Review:
![Cover The Carr Family Records : Embacing [sic] the Record of the First Families Who Settled in America And Their Descendants, With Many Braches Who Came to This Country At a Later Date](https://files.readanybook.online/435517/thumbs/50x81/the-carr-family-records-embacing-sic-the-record-of-the-first-families-who-settled-in-america-and-their-descendants-with-many-braches-who-came-to.jpg)
User Reviews: