# The story of a Hessian

Author: Guernsey, Lucy Ellen, 1826-1899

Genre: New Jersey -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Juvenile fiction

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77860

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+story+of+a+Hessian+Guernsey&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

ON a certain bright October morning, in the year 1779, a gay train set out from the princely hunting-lodge of Nonnenwald. This lodge was built under the shadow of an outlying spire of the great Thuringerwald, a range of mountains to the south-east of the dominions of the prince to whom it belonged. It was, in fact, a small Schloss or castle, a part of which was quite ruinous and overgrown with ivy and brambles. This part of the building was made of dark stone taken from a quarry near at hand. A couple of its towers were in good preservation, and showed signs of being inhabited, while a two-story wing, evidently quite new and built of brick, looked awkward and uncomfortable beside its somb...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER IX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-story-of-a-hessian-77860/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-story-of-a-hessian-77860/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-story-of-a-hessian-77860/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-story-of-a-hessian-77860/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-story-of-a-hessian-77860/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-story-of-a-hessian-77860/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-story-of-a-hessian-77860/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-story-of-a-hessian-77860/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-story-of-a-hessian-77860/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-story-of-a-hessian-77860/chapters/4/index.md)