George Payne Rainsford James
George Payne Rainsford James
Image Attribution: Mathew Brady (Public domain)

It was a dark and stormy night, that of the 19th of November, 1620, the eve of the twenty-third Sunday after Trinity; and clouds were rolling heavily over the sky, carried on by a keen and piercing wind which howled and whistled round the old battlements of Prague, and shook the lozenges in the long casements.

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