Category: Historical Novels
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2. Part 2"The Board of Trade will find itself ignored," he said. "There will not be any applications. The people will simply settle, and, when they are settled, nothing but a royal army...
3. Part 3"I guess religion is all right; it is simply the observance of it that has gone to decay. Would not you like to see our Courts in session? Come along."
4. Part 4"My views are for myself, alone. We women are supposed to have none--to stay put, as it were--and I am going to stay put; but I shall think what I please." She shrugged her shou...
5. Part 5Sir Edward Parkington lay awake, for a long time that night, thinking. It was good sport, this posing as another man, and he had entered upon it much as he had entered upon all...
6. Part 6"_P. S. Did you ever Chance to Meet a Sir Edward Parkington, or do you Know of Him? He is arrived, lately, at Annapolis, bringing Letters of Introduction to Governor Sharpe and...
7. Part 7"Let that idea sink in, Marbury. Sir Edward Parkington is considering settling here--and marrying--with your permission and a fitting competence. But Rousby Hall? There is not m...
8. Part 8"It was to be twelve hundred, no more. This is the silver?" pointing to the bundle in white. "Very good--my men shall be immediately withdrawn. Monsieur, I have the honor to sal...
9. Part 9"Well, you may quiz him to your heart's content, and I think you will find him, outwardly at least, a gentleman. He impressed me as being of superior birth--however much he may...
10. Part 10"Look here, Captain! I do not usually meddle in affairs which do not concern me, but your trouble is jealousy--plain jealousy. It is all you have against Sir Edward. He happens...
11. Part 11"The penalty, for this sort of treason," he said,--"and I am making it very easy--is to give me as much of your society, while I am here, as I have the courage to seek."
12. Part 12She was trying to find out just how much Herford had witnessed. There was no occasion for Maynadier taking up the quarrel--if he had seen only what had happened since she came d...
13. Part 13"I am, indeed, fortunate to find Sir Edward Parkington, here," he said. "I had thought to meet only strangers; instead, I am already in the house of my friends. There is nothing...
14. Part 14He emptied the gold into a shining heap, on the table before him, and spread it out with his hands. There were guineas, pistoles, and Spanish doubloons, in all, making up the tw...
15. Part 15"You remember the evening at Hedgely Hall, when you told me that Sir Edward was not Sir Edward?" she asked. "Well, it happened he had been growing a little ardent about that tim...
16. Part 16"Just so!" he said. "I was sitting there, and saw it all--saw you leave, heard you come to my door and listen, saw you return, a moment, to him--and, now, you come again--and it...
17. Part 17"For I _am_ Long-Sword," he continued, "even as I _am_ Sir Charles Brandon. And, ere we grow busy in the business of death, I want to say, in order that my friend, De Lysle, may...