Excerpt from John Splendid: The Tale of a Poor Gentleman and the Little Wars of Lorn One day, at a place called Nordlingen in the Mid Franken, binding a wound Gavin got in the sword-arm, I said, What's your wish at this moment, cousin? He looked at me with a melting eye, and the flush hove to his face. 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.