The Castilian

ISBN: 9781334711053 出版年：2016 页码：376 Telesforo de Trueba Y Cosio Forgotten Books

Three times he had already risen, and draw ing towards the ponderous casement, surveyed the prospect round. The country lay buried in awful darkness — no sound of advancing troops was to be heard, and Ferran again threw himself upon his couch, in anxious expectation of the morning. His mind was in a state of restless excitement; for he hailed as certain the ao complishment of his ardent wishes — of hopes, too long deferred. Nothing new impeded his union with Costanza; chance had unexpectedly united the objects most dear to each other; the king approved and even desired their marriage.