Excerpt from The Beautiful Queen of Leix, or the Self-Consumed: An Irish Tale; Mount Orient; A Tale He started at this moment, and, by an in voluntary action, laced his hand on his carved sword hilt, as a lbw moan, or rather howl, re sembling the sound uttered by a wolf in suffering, issued from behind the tall stone a einst which he leant. He looked on the other S1de, and saw, in the pale light, a spectacle that, for the instant, made his heart shrink and turn cold within his breast. On a small rough stone, within a few feet of the dallan, sat, in an erect osition, a tall, powerfully built, but yet, lean an wasted man. 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.