Excerpt from Thalatta! Or the Great Commoner: A Political Romance Heaven, for whom wait you? The old heroic ages have departed, and do not return any more. But in one breast there still beats knightly faith, and truth, and loyalty, and they are all laid at your feet. Bend your eyes, and kill us, if you will, with passion, or mockery, or tender tears; but do not remain for ever so inaccessibly, so snowily, divine. 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.

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