Excerpt from In the Ring, Vol. 3 of 3: A Novel Brave hearts! There were no doubt many near who would willingly have stood up before any woman's enemy had he been ever so strong but who knew what help to give or how to act in such a case as this? Every one stands still, staring either appealingly at his neighbour to know what to do, or turning away in very horror from the sight of that terri fied animal plunging and kicking amidst the flames, which are beginning to burn even more fiercely where one catches sight Of a scrap of something scarlet and the gleam of a Shining helmet. Yes, every one Waits for the other to make a move; even the false-hearted lover for once stands out in his true character as a shrink ing, trembling coward, until suddenly some one, who has made no soft-worded vows of love and homage - who does not even rank as the equal of a lad of but a few years old in common sense, finds love enough and wits enough to go to the rescue. With strength of which no one looking at his shrunken form would have deemed him capable, he tears from the centre pole, to which they are attached, the long festoons of roses over which the Fay has SO lately danced, and which he knows are fastened upon ropes Of a considerable thick ness. 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.