{"product_id":"2940015909364","title":"A LADDER OF SWORDS","description":"A Ladder of Swords\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIf you go to Southampton and search the register of the Walloon\u003cbr\u003echurch there, you will find that in the summer of 157- “_Madame Vefue\u003cbr\u003ede Montgomery with all her family and servants were admitted to the\u003cbr\u003eCommunion_”--“_Tous ceux ci furent Reçus là à Cêne du 157-, comme\u003cbr\u003epassans, sans avoir Rendu Raison de la foi, mes sur la tesmognage de\u003cbr\u003eMons. Forest, Ministre de Madame, qui certifia qui ne cognoisoit Rien\u003cbr\u003een tout ceux la pó quoy Il ne leur deust administré la Cêne s’il\u003cbr\u003eestoit en lieu pó la ferre._”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere is another striking record, which says that in August of the\u003cbr\u003esame year Demoiselle Angèle Claude Aubert, daughter of Monsieur de\u003cbr\u003ela Haie Aubert, Councillor of the Parliament of Rouen, was married to\u003cbr\u003eMichel de la Forêt, of the most noble Flemish family of that name.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e       *       *       *       *       *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen I first saw these records, now grown dim with time, I fell to\u003cbr\u003ewondering what was the real life-history of these two people.\u003cbr\u003eForthwith, in imagination, I began to make their story piece by\u003cbr\u003epiece; and I had reached a romantic _dénoûment_ satisfactory to\u003cbr\u003emyself and in sympathy with fact, when the Angel of Accident stepped\u003cbr\u003eforward with some “human documents.” Then I found that my tale, woven\u003cbr\u003eback from the two obscure records I have given, was the true story of\u003cbr\u003etwo most unhappy yet most happy people. From the note struck in my\u003cbr\u003emind, when my finger touched that sorrowful page in the register of\u003cbr\u003ethe Church of the Refugees at Southampton, had spread out the whole\u003cbr\u003emelody and the very book of the song.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne of the later-discovered records was a letter, tear-stained,\u003cbr\u003efaded, beautifully written in old French, from Demoiselle Angèle\u003cbr\u003eClaude Aubert to Michel de la Forêt at Anvers in March of the year\u003cbr\u003e157-. The letter lies beside me as I write, and I can scarcely\u003cbr\u003ebelieve that three and a quarter centuries have passed since it was\u003cbr\u003ewritten, and that she who wrote it was but eighteen years old at the\u003cbr\u003etime. I translate it into English, though it is impossible adequately\u003cbr\u003eto carry over either the flavor or the idiom of the language:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“_Written on this May Day of the year 157-, at the place hight Rozel\u003cbr\u003ein the Minor called of the same of Jersey Isle, to Michel de la\u003cbr\u003eForêt, at Anvers in Flanders._","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47153116217584,"sku":"2940015909364","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940015909364","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}