Wild digital books

I. The Sorceress
II. The Dead Bride
III. The Court Page
IV. The Stranger
V. The Dwarf and the Ruin
VI. La Masque
VII. The Earl's Barge.
VIII. The Midnight Queen.
IX. Leoline.
X. The Page, the Fires, and the Fall
XI. The Execution
XII. The Doom
XIII. Escaped
XIV. In the Dungeon
XV. Leoline's Visitors
XVI. The Third Vision
XVII. The Hidden Face
XVIII. The Interview.
XIX. Hubert's Whisper
XX. At the Plague-pit
XXI. What was Behind the Mask
XXII. Day-dawn
XXIII. Finis


THE MIDNIGHT QUEEN,


CHAPTER I.
THE SORCERESS.

The plague raged in the city of London. The destroying angel had
gone forth, and kindled with its fiery breath the awful
pestilence, until all London became one mighty lazar-house.
Thousands were swept away daily; grass grew in the streets, and
the living were scarce able to bury the dead. Business of all
kinds was at an end, except that of the coffin-makers and drivers
of the pest-carte. Whole streets were shut up, and almost every
other house in the city bore the fatal red cross, and the ominous
inscription.


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