Excerpt from Tales of the MasqueBut not all the crows have a cinder for a heart: here and there one has a heart indeed.And one day such an one loved a man, and loved him faithfully. But the man was so steeped in sins that his soul, when it went to judgment, was as black as the feathers of its one sole friend: and no other portion could be granted to it but hell.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.