Excerpt from The Grey Knight A woman rested upon a bench placed beneath a gaily striped awning, in the front court of a small French provincial hotel. The April sunshine flooded the roughly plastered, yellow-washed walls, the high slated roof, and the closed green shutters of the numerous windows. On either side of her extended a row of pollarded limes, guarding the little enclosure from the steep white road, whereon a peasant was driving a donkey laden with sacks of grain. The fields were glowing with buttercups, and the crickets sang loudly and incessantly. Above the deep and narrow ravine in which the hotel was built, rose the white-capped mountains of the Pyrenees, against a dazzling turquoise sky. 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.