Dick Chester

Giles the stableman had led out the horses, the two horses--one for the steward, Master Purvis, one for Captain Dent,--and he stood at their heads in the castle-yard. The owner...

Little Dick Chester had never known a mother's love nor a father's care. His mother died when he was born. His father had been too much occupied with the King's business to atte...

The cloud of dust rolled nearer. Presently a dark mass could be seen on the level road. Then, before Dick's wondering eyes, a body of cavalry unrolled itself over the plain in t...

"I admit," Giles went on in his jesting way, "that the situation is salubrious, that the plain is well watered, and that the pasture for cattle is excellent. The view, too, of y...

"Giles," said Dick in the evening, as they stood on the leads by the flagstaff; "Giles, they haven't taken the Puritan's body away," and he pointed to the man where he lay by th...

Giles bound up the Puritan's wounds first, and gave him some wine, laying him on a settle by the kitchen fire. He revived a little, but Giles saw very soon that he was dying. Di...

Giles, left behind, pictured many adventures that might have befallen Dick in his two hours' walk in the dark, but he did not foresee--perhaps because he did not know the field-...

As Dick and his new friend crossed the meadow that divided the farm from Lumley Manor, everyone they met saluted. The people looked after Dick with marked wonder that did not es...

He was standing by the table, as I have said, when suddenly, without the sound of an opening door, or the fall of a footstep behind him, a great cloak was thrown over his head,...

The Seven Thorns was a lonely place. The long dusty road ran past it to the hills, and the country was desolate and wild. The road sloped down to the east and up to the west. As...

The next traveller down the lane was a dog--a great black retriever with the most benevolent brown eyes. He came splashing down through the puddles, and overshot the mysterious...

Bridget waited on Dick all day, keeping him in bed, petting him, and nursing him, and making much of him. In the evening Philip came in with a parcel in his arms.

Lorry expressed grave doubts of Dick's character for several days, though, as her Ladyship told him, he had no grounds for his suspicions at all. He was merely jealous. That a s...

It was the night before her Ladyship's birthday, and she and Dick were sitting in the oak parlour after supper, discussing the chances of a fine day on the morrow. Dick was in a...

The first thing Dick saw, when the sun rose, was the new suit of rose-coloured silk which her Ladyship had given him to wear on her birthday. Old Philip had laid it out on the o...

"Nay, there'll be no rest for her to-night, master." The old man sat down by the bedside as he spoke. "She was for not having you told," he went on slowly, "but Bridget overrule...

Dick had wakened at dawn, the dawn he would never have seen but for her. He dressed quickly in the silken clothes of yesterday. "They will less likely recognize me on the way if...

"At least," Dick reflected as he and Lionel crossed the bridge and went up the street into Arncastor. "At least, I have not been recognized or stopped yet. And I might meet him...

Giles's master took Dick into a small panelled room, lighted by the setting sun only, and seating himself in a carved arm-chair, motioned Dick to a stool at his side.

"The King?" Dick cried, half-incredulously. "The King!" He grew hot, then cold, as he stood there, half-expecting some awful retribution to follow on his audacities. But then th...

Dick slept very heavily that night. He woke once, and found Giles bending over him, smiled comfortably, and fell asleep again; and the very next minute, as it seemed to him, Gil...

The Lady Dorothy Byng was in her chamber upstairs, pacing the floor, with bent head, restlessly, and very pale indeed. Lorry lay on the broad step in the window-place, watching...

The sight of his cousin, sitting by the casement in her white dress, calmed Dick. He had thought her on her birthday night most beautiful, but her loveliness at this moment fill...