The Midnight Queen

ISBN-13: 9781517002015 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 142 str.

May Agnes Fleming

Opis

The plague raged in the city of London. The destroying angel had gone forth, and kindled with its fiery breath the awful pestilence, until all London became one mighty lazar-house. Thousands were swept away daily; grass grew in the streets, and the living were scarce able to bury the dead. Business of all kinds was at an end, except that of the coffin-makers and drivers of the pest-cart. Whole streets were shut up, and almost every other house in the city bore the fatal red cross, and the ominous inscription, "Lord have mercy on us." Few people, save the watchmen, armed with halberts, keeping guard over the stricken ho

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