Excerpt from Hildebrand, or the Days of Queen Elizabeth, Vol. 1 of 3: An Historical Romance He sat his horse with much grace and with that union of ease and dignity, Joined to flexity of limb, which denoted no less the per foot horseman, than the true and polished gen tleman. A slight breeze had risen with the evening, and as he had probably ridden some distance. 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.