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The Snowball - Stanley John Weyman
Stanley John Weyman
The Snowball
Published by Good Press, 2019
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MERRIAM'S
VIOLET SERIES.
THE MERRIAM COMPANY
THE SNOWBALL.
Flung a snowball at me. Frontispiece.
He dropped his napkin.
Your scribe might do for me.
She sprang forward.
It was the king.
Are you coming out there?
MERRIAM'S
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VIOLET SERIES.
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Illustrated, Square 32mo, Cloth, 40c.
No. 6
I.--A Man and His Model.
By Anthony Hope.
II.--The Body-Snatcher.
By By Robert Louis Stevenson.
III.--The Silence of the Maharajah.
By By Marie Corelli.
IV.--Some Good Intentions and a Blunder.
V.--After To-Morrow.
By By the Author of The Green Carnation.
VI.--The Snowball.
By By Stanley J. Weyman.
OTHER VOLUMES IN PREPARATION.
For sale by all booksellers, or will be sent post-paid
upon receipt of price by
THE MERRIAM COMPANY
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THE SNOWBALL.
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The slight indisposition from which the Queen suffered in the spring of 1602, and which was occasioned by a cold caught during her lying-in, by diverting the King's attention from matters of State, had the effect of doubling the burden cast on my shoulders. Though the main threads of M. de Biron's conspiracy were in our hands as early as the month of November of the preceding year, and steps had been immediately taken to sound the chief associates by summoning them to court, an interval necessarily followed during which we had everything to fear; and this not only from the despair of the guilty, but from the timidity of the innocent who, in a court filled with cabals and rumors of intrigues, might see no way to clear themselves. Even the shows and interludes which followed the Dauphin's birth, and made that Christmas remarkable, served only to amuse the idle; they could not disperse the cloud which hung over the Louvre,