Excerpt from The White Hoods, Vol. 3 of 3: An Historical Romance Thus equipped, Lewis prepared once more to sally forth with Anna. He thanked the widow sincerely for the generous manner in which she had become, under Providence, the means of preserving his life; promised her a large reward, should he ever again have the power to bestow it, and offered her several pieces of gold from the purse he had about him. These the honest creature at first refused accepting, saying, that in the Earl's present condition, gold might be found necessary to procure not only sustenance, but horses to facilitate his escape, when he should be beyond the walls of Bruges. The Earl, however, assured her, that accepting what he offered for herself and children, would do him no injury, since he had still sufficient to bear him to Lille, a place he hoped to reach, by some means or other, before the following night. 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.