Excerpt from Jeannette Isabelle, Vol. 2 of 3: A Novel Not Richard Cœur de Lion, when immured by the treachery of the French monarch on his return from the Crusade, he first caught the sound of his faithful Blondel's harp, and recognized his voice beneath his prison wall - not even that royal captive, amid all the sufferings and privations to which he was exposed, welcomed more gladly the well-known melody, and hailed in it an earnest of his approaching release than did our unfortunate heroine, when the familiar tones of Pisatelli's song had first struck upon her ear. 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.