Excerpt from Kings in Exile<br><br>Frederique had been sleeping since the early morning, - a fevered and weary slumber, haunted by the grievous, mournful dreams of an exiled and dethroned queen, a slumber still agitated by the tumult and anguish of two months' siege, full of warlike and blood-stained Visions, broken by sobs, shudders and nervous prostration, from which she started up with a feeling of terror.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.