Category: Historical Novels
"Fiddle-de-dee! Do give over snuffing and snivelling and sobbing, and tell me if you want your warm petticoat in the saddle-bag. You'd make a saint for to swear!" More sobs, and one or two disjointed words, were all that came in answer. The sobbing sister, who was the younger...
The conspirators had just concluded their bargain, and decided that the cellar must be stored with materials in all haste, to be ready for the meeting of Parliament on the seven...
3. Chapter 3"O Conspiracy! Sham'st thou to show thy dangerous brow by night, When evils are most free? Oh, then, by day, Where wilt thou find a cavern dark enough To mask thy monstrous visa...
9. Chapter 9"And thou hast fashioned idols of thine own-- Idols of gold, of silver, and of stone: To them hast bowed the knee, and breathed the breath, And they must help thee in the hour o...
8. Chapter 8"Better to have dwelt unlooked for in some forest's shadows dun, Where the leaves are pierced in triumph by the javelins of the sun! Better to be born and die in some calm nest,...
14. Chapter 14"Well, to be sure! My man wouldn't let me come no sooner--'tis his fault, not mine. But I did want to know which of them lads o' ours told his tale the Tightest. Here's Seth wil...
5. Chapter 5On the following evening, Aubrey put in an appearance at the White Bear. As soon as he entered, he gave a quick, troubled look round the parlour, before he went up to kiss his g...
11. Chapter 11"Carry him forth and bury him. Death's peace Rest on his memory! Mercy by his bier Sits silent, or says only these few words-- Let him who is without sin 'mongst ye all Cast the...
13. Chapter 13"Eh, Parson, I declare it's you! How fares Mrs Agnes this cold even? Marry, I do believe we shall have snow ere the day break again. The White Bear'll be a bit whiter, I reckon,...
1. Chapter 1"Fiddle-de-dee! Do give over snuffing and snivelling and sobbing, and tell me if you want your warm petticoat in the saddle-bag. You'd make a saint for to swear!" More sobs, and...
7. Chapter 7"Will you suffer Mrs Lettice to come to our apple-cast on Tuesday next? We shall have divers young folks of our neighbours--Mrs Abbott's Mary, Dorcas, and Hester, Mrs Townsend's...
12. Chapter 12The page who received this order looked up in apprehension. So exceedingly stern were Lady Oxford's tone, and _so frowning_ her aspect, that he trembled for himself, apart from...
2. Chapter 2At the bridge-end, as they came up, were Milisent and her husband, with seven of their nine children,--even little Fortune, but five years old, whom Milisent lifted into the coa...
4. Chapter 4One afternoon during that winter, as Lettice was coming down-stairs, her sense of smell was all at once saluted by a strange odour, which did not strike her as having any probab...
10. Chapter 10Grant and Bates were really guilty of very little beyond knowing of the plot and keeping silence. But they all received the same sentence--to be hung, drawn, and quartered. Sir...
16. Chapter 16wrong, by saying that in Queen Elizabeth's time he had consulted him as to the lawfulness of the "powder action," which was "most untrue;" but after the preceding extracts, who...
15. Chapter 15This gentleman fought with his master at Bosworth, and was beheaded three days after the battle. His son George, who died in 1495-6, was father of Sir Richard, who died in 1552,...