Excerpt from Saints and Sinners, Vol. 1 of 2: Or, in Church and About It In those days the ludicrous trod on the heels of the perilous. That saintly king of the East Angles, St. Ethelbert, wooed Alfrida, the daughter of King Offa and Quendreda. The maiden was willing, but her mother was not. She hated the young king, but she coveted his possessions, and She murdered her daughter's lover that she might herself obtain his dominions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.