Castles II : Siege & Conquest est un jeu de stratégie sur PC. Le soft met en scène la lutte de quelques nations et lignées célèbres du Moyen-Age pour conquérir la royauté française. On retrouve ainsi l'Angleterre, la Bourgogne, l'Aragon, les Valois et l'Anjou. Le jeu se déroule en temps réel, et présente plusieurs aspects : il est possible de faire du commerce avec diverses denrées très classiques, de mener des combats, et de faire de la diplomatie.
She gave my mother such a turn, that I have always been convinced I am indebted to Miss Betsey for having been born on a Friday. The word was appropriate to the moment. My mother was so much worse that Peggotty, coming in with the teaboard and candles, and seeing at a glance how ill she was, - as Miss Betsey might have done sooner if there had been light enough, - conveyed her upstairs to her own room with all speed; and immediately dispatched Ham Peggotty, her nephew, who had been for some days past secreted in the house, unknown to my mother, as a special messenger in case of emergency, to fetch the nurse and doctor.
