# The Draytons and the Davenants

Author: Charles, Elizabeth Rundle, 1828-1896

Genre: Category: Historical Novels

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/75740

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Draytons+and+the+Davenants+Charles&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Yesterday at noon, when the house and all the land were still, and the men, with the lads and lasses, were away at the harvesting, and I sat alone, with barred doors, for fear of the Indians (who have of late shown themselves unfriendly), I chanced to look up from my spinning-wheel through the open window, across the creek on which our house stands. And something, I scarce know what, carried me back through the years and across the seas to the old house on the borders of the Fen Country, in the days of my childhood. It may have been the quiet rustling of the sleepy air in the long grasses by the water-side that wafted my spirit back to where the English winds sigh and sough among the reed...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER XI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-draytons-and-the-davenants-75740/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-draytons-and-the-davenants-75740/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-draytons-and-the-davenants-75740/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-draytons-and-the-davenants-75740/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-draytons-and-the-davenants-75740/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-draytons-and-the-davenants-75740/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-draytons-and-the-davenants-75740/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-draytons-and-the-davenants-75740/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-draytons-and-the-davenants-75740/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-draytons-and-the-davenants-75740/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter XII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-draytons-and-the-davenants-75740/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-draytons-and-the-davenants-75740/chapters/2/index.md)