Excerpt from The Woman of the World, Vol. 2 of 3: A NovelThere stood the majestic effigies of the Earls of Shropshire, - Warriors, statesmen, prelates, legists - below, in almost undistinguishable de cay, lay their mouldering remains. And now, a new coffin and a new monument were to be added to the heap, and the next to follow, - even the next, - must be his own l - For him the torches must burn and the escutcheoned banners wave, - the muf¿ed bell toll, and the chaunts of the choir arise - even as at that moment for one who was gone to his dread account of the good things and means of good, which, in his life time, he had received from the lavish hand of his Creator'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.