Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Whitefriars, or the Days of Charles the Second, Vol. 1 of 3: An Historical Romance
The gray ramparts and turrets of the Tower were lighted up with Italian brilliancy, in the rich colours of the sunset, and were decked out in holiday splen dour, with innumerable banderols, above which ?oated, on the highest tower, the gorgeous banner of England. The great bell, which usually summoned the inhabitants within the fortress limits before the gates closed, was tolling, and divers belated persons were hurrying towards them.
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