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Excerpt from The Regent's Daughter, Vol. 1: Helene De Chaverny Just as the clocks were striking the hour of ten, a coach with two out'riders, preceded by a mounted page, passed under the Gothic gateway which gave entrance to the Abbey of Chelles. On its panels were emblazoned the three fieurs de-lis of France, charged in chief with the label of the cadet branch of Orleans. The vehicle drew up under the pillared portico Of the main building; and the page, who had already leapt to the ground, sprang briskly to Open the door for its two occupants to descend. 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."