Excerpt from Blue and Green Or, the Gift of God, Vol. 3 of 3: A Romance of Old ConstantinopleThe one spectator mentioned above, for whose especial gratification the team was to be exhibited, was the solitary occupant of a covered carriage drawn by mules, and stationed on the turf at the point of the course furthest from the stables, and exactly Opposite the end of the Spina. Never did the brisk air from the Thracian uplands bring the light into clearer eyes or the roses into purer cheeks than those of Theodora. Alas! That the heart was not more in accordance with the face.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.