She at once made herself a salad of it, and ate it greedily. Then her husband was alarmed, and asked: ‘What ails you, dear wife?’ ‘Ah,’ she replied, ‘if I can’t eat some of the rampion, which is in the garden behind our house, I shall die.’ The man, who loved her, thought: ‘Sooner than let your wife die, bring her some of the rampion yourself, let it cost what it will.’ At twilight, he clambered down over the wall into the garden of the enchantress, hastily clutched a handful of rampion, and took it to his wife. One day the woman was standing by this window and looking down into the garden, when she saw a bed which was planted with the most beautiful rampion (rapunzel), and it looked so fresh and green that she longed for it, she quite pined away, and began to look pale and miserable. It was, however, surrounded by a high wall, and no one dared to go into it because it belonged to an enchantress, who had great power and was dreaded by all the world. These people had a little window at the back of their house from which a splendid garden could be seen, which was full of the most beautiful flowers and herbs. At length the woman hoped that God was about to grant her desire. There were once a man and a woman who had long in vain wished for a child. You should visit Browse Happy and update your internet browser today! The embedded audio player requires a modern internet browser.
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Lara has only one thought for her husband on their wedding day: I will bring your kingdom to its knees. What if you fell in love with the one person you’d sworn to destroy? Only Scott’s friend, the elegant, dandified David Alexander is impervious to the murderous rages of the Company Captain Tollman, a monstrous man who victimises anyone who dares oppose him. While the soldiers are raring to fight, the commanding officer is antiquated and the officers themselves are divided into factions. But life in the trenches is far from what he had first expected. Embedded undercover in a British infantry regiment on the Western Front, Anson Scott - an American newspaperman – watches, waits and writes his articles in secret, sending them out uncensored for his readers in the USA. It is 1916 and the war in France is hot and about to get hotter. And then, of course, there was the seventh, the most destructive of them all. 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