Excerpt from The Rover, 1945, Vol. 5: A Weekly Magazine of Tales, Poetry, and Engravings, Also Sketches of Travel, History and Biography<br><br>Though educated in retirement, many leagues from the capital, the fame of her charms was not long in reaching it, and, ere her seventeenth sum mer had passed away, the king demanded her in marriage for his odson, Henri, Count de St. Me dard, only son 0 the Duke de la Digne, the most wealthy and powerful nobleman at the French court. Surely no father in his sense could refuse the offer of an alliance so splendid - at least the Baron de l'au could not, so a courier was immediately despatched to inform Florelle of the honor intended her, with a command to hold-her self in readiness to receive her future lord at any time it should please the kin to appoint.<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.