Download e-book for kindle: The Ashes Of Bohemia (Lexington Glory Days Series Book 1) by Steven Reak

(Anna and Joseph are leaving the big city sq., the place a bloody bloodbath has simply occurred. Her Highness, The Queen had despatched her military to quell the peoples’ many protests, and lots of males, ladies and youngsters have died.)

“Our pals, our countrymen lie lifeless on the street, whereas our Queen! our Queen’s military! fights us and kills us like butchered animals,” Joseph struggles to inform his spouse, Anna.

“We’ll cross domestic Joseph! We’ll stay to struggle one other day,” she tells him, attempting to calm him down.

“Unlike those that have already sacrificed,” he tells her sternly

The make their manner down the lengthy slim cobblestone alley approach with the edges of many tall constructions on either side of them.

“You’re limping Joseph,” she says, him worridly.

“It’s now not a nasty damage, my sweet,” he tells her.

“Come then, lean on me, yet please let’s hurry ahead of we run into trouble.”

Going via again alleys and darkish corridores Joseph and Anna make it properly to their domestic, that's dimly lit with just a couple of small home windows to enable within the light.

Joseph tells her desparately, crying, “Our Queen Maria Theresa threatens to starve us to maintain us docile then fees approximately half our grain creation for her taxes. They kidnap our kids to paintings of their spinning turbines making textile by means of day and turning them into whores by way of evening. We can’t even worship the God of our fathers, Anna.

“I recognize Joseph. we have to retain struggling with for them. And we are going to. yet it’s been an extraordinarily harsh day. Let’s now not extend it anymore at the present time. Please.”

“Your correct, I suppose.” He bows his head, his chin to his chest and closes his eyes, bewildered and exhausted.

Suddenly Anna is shaken through a noisy pounding on her friends door, quickly through shrieks of terror, as she rushes to the small window to observe to determine what’s going on.

“No! No! carry him back!” Anna’s neighbor, a girl, is crouching down at the flooring in emotional soreness, crying, whereas a moment guy is preserving her husband, suffering to unfastened to himself.

“Your kinfolk is being declared not worthy and your baby is being declared an orphan and needs to include us.” a coarse having a look guy lies, as a 3rd guy is approximately forcing the boy with him.

“Joseph!” Anna whispers. “Three males are taking the neighbor boy, claiming Karolina and Pavel are not worthy to elevate him.”

Joseph sits up in his chair, “We recognize the associates good, Anna. by no means ahead of have extra able father and mother raised little ones so well.”

“Not in Bohemia by myself are the peasants uprisings to be feared,” the fifty-eight yr previous ruling Queen of Austria and Bohemia is writing. “But additionally in Austria and Moravia. At our very doorways, the following at domestic, they carry the best impudences. the implications for themselves and for lots of blameless people,” she potential herself and the opposite ecu royalty, “are to be feared.”

She units the pen from the ink good down on her table, on most sensible of the letter she has simply written, and appears at it and ponders its which means for the leaders and peoples of the towns

Not very tall and plump, the lavishly dressed Queen in a frilly lace gown, with brief curly white blonde hair and severe tone rises stately from in the back of her table at Schonbrunn Palace in Austria, taking a look drained from tension and bad well-being and coughs deeply a number of times.

Her kingdom Chancellor, 3 participants of the excessive the Aristocracy and 3 knights stroll into the room.

The opulent house with its excessive ceiling has stone and marble statues outfitted into nooks within the stone partitions alongside rows of candelabra’s for mild, with huge, immense colourful work, ornate furniture and lengthy, advantageous flowing tapestry. “Sit down,” she deals them, once they bow to her.

“There are many stuff i need to discuss,” she tells her council wheezing, slowly jogging round the huge sq. table.

“Among them, the numerous uprisings in my lands and what we will do approximately them. really the newest misfortune within the city sq. of Ceske Budejovice, in my cherished Bohemia.”