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...1 A COURAGEOUS BATTLE A Courageous Battle Susan Bracken 2 SUSAN BRACKEN Copyright © 2010 Susan Bracken. All r... ...ces, London, ON; www.ardith.ca Printed and bound in Canada 3 A COURAGEOUS BATTLE CHAPTER 1 LACEY WILSON had given up trying to make friends. No one l... ...concentration. Lacey’s father was a salesman whose territory took him away from home most days of the week. On weekends he went shopping for food and ... ...ornful name-calling. She rejoiced every June when summer offered a respite from the bullying. Lacey spent entire days sprawled on her bed engrossed in... ...ats. They sat in the car and watched kids climbing on the monkey bars, and people lined up to buy ice cream. “Hey,” Lacey said. “I just thought of som... ...oo. I was scared of advertising it for sale because I did not want strange people coming to the house. Now I will not have to worry. Will you take me ... ... coun- tryside, before doubling back onto the bay again, further north and east. They traveled through canopies of brilliant red, yel- low and gold tr... ...believe in God?” “Well, yes. I’m an Anglican. I go to church sometimes, at Easter and Christmas for sure. Except, of course, I didn’t go this year bec... ...ty for Old Age Rational Suicide (SOARS), c/o Dr. Michael Irwin, Hove, East Sussex, England, (44) 1483-273700 {michael-hk.irwin@virgin.net} Campaigns f...

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... means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without written permission from the author. ISBN: 1-4033-8037-6 (e-book) I... ... 1stBooks - rev. 11/22/02 iii Note to Reader Extracts from investigations, 1835 Major General Sir Willia... ...they cannot trouble us.’ Sleeman: ‘And how do they not trouble you?’ Thuggee: ‘Are not the people whom we kill, killed by the orders of KALI... ...tually wiped out. This was one of the most difficult, but necessary operations undertaken by the EAST INDIA COMPANY and is considered, along with th... ...important humanitarian reforms of British rule. v Historical Note to Reader The Honourable East India Company ‘It is the strangest of all g... ...fe without you now, my darling Rosita. Will you brave that long sea journey and all those strange people to be with your Helen?’ Audrey Blankenhag... ...oghul power - particularly that symbol to everlasting love, the ‘Taj Mahal’; the sites of famous battlefields of India’s past and her great, wide ri... ...she wondered why the stars seemed bigger and brighter than they had ever looked in the skies over Sussex. To-morrow Gavin would be home and Helen fe... ...ed to succeed him. The first was poisoned and the other died on a THE CURSE OF KALI 149 desert battlefield. These are the deaths honoured by the S...

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...elieve the existence of a Devil is a like debt to reason; one is a demonstration from the reality of visible causes, and the other a deduction from t... ... like reality of their effects. One demonstration of the existence of God is from the universal well-guided consent of all nations to worship and... ...ms, that the Creator of heaven and earth had adopted this nation for his chosen people, and therefore demanded their exclusive homage, and that they... ... which she called Prick-ear, Jack and Frog. Several witnesses, poor and ignorant people, were brought to testify to the mischief which had been done ... ... of Parma, who had espoused the cause of Marc Anthony, fled to Athens after the battle of Actium. While sleeping in his apartments there, he saw a ma... ...ll hope of being wedded before the following Whitsuntide. On the other hand, in Sussex on her return home from church is often robbed of all the pin... ..., because the surface is so seldom perfectly level. There are hundred of men in East Tennessee that will testify to this fact from actual experience....

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...In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the private world...

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...FROM THE COVER OF VOICES FROM THE PAST: In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author... ...r to enter for the first time into the private worlds of five remarkable people: Sappho of Lesbos, the famous Greek poet; Jesus; Leonardo da Vinci... .....articulate, believable ... charms with an expert knowledge of place and people.” MICHAEL FRAENKEL, novelist and poet: “His is the authenticity o... ...and poetry. Our most recent publication is the remarkable quintet, Voices from the Past, by bestselling author Paul Alexander Bartlett, whose novel,... ...I felt that the war was forever between us and I hated those years, those battles, the lines on his face. My hate was there, between us. Then, then,... ...ne or in knots of two or three, feeling separate. How does one forget the battlefield? I heard the burr of ancient Egyptian. Persian was spoken by me... ...cumstances of their tell- ing. How he loved travelers, especially from the East. I see Aesop on his balcony, the wind making him blink his eyes; he h... ...outside the Globe: they had been working as stage hands: clever lads from Sussex, faithful, hard-working: they got sick on Tuesday; as the bells tol... ... the pegs moving inside the beams: that is for integrity. Ivy grew on the east wall of my house in those days. Henley Street June 3, 1615 Alone...

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...Wentworth, of Warncliffe Park, and around Rotherham. Here haunted of yore the fabulous Dragon of Wantley; here were fought many of the most desperate battles during the Civil Wars of the Roses; and here also flourished in ancient times those bands of gallant outlaws, whose deeds have been rendered so popular in English song....

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...e fabulous Dragon of W antley; here were fought many of the most desperate battles during the Civil Wars of the Roses; and here also flourished in anc... ...rs to a period towards the end of the reign of Richard I., when his return from his long captivity had become an event rather wished than hoped for by... ... of their less powerful neighbours, who attempted to separate them- selves from their authority, and to trust for their protection, during the dangers... ...completely placed in the hands of the Norman nobility, by the event of the battle of Hastings, and it had been used, as our histories assure us, with ... ... war or insurrection, mark the existence of the Anglo-Saxons as a separate people subsequent to the reign of William the Second; yet the great nationa... ...Oriental form of their garments, showed them to be natives of some distant Eastern country.* The whole appearance of this warrior and his retinue was ... ...ue was wild and outlandish; the dress of his squires was gorgeous, and his Eastern attendants wore silver collars round their throats, and bracelets o... ...d, impressed them no less with an opinion of his sanctity. Even the common people, the severest critics of the conduct of their betters, had commisera... ...h, was filling the Norman sails, and impelling them to the fatal shores of Sussex?—Who would have thought that Harold, within a few brief days, would ...

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...nd Mr. Lewisham is seen at his studies. It was ten years ago, and in those days he was assistant master in the Whortley Proprietary School, Whortley, Sussex, and his wages were forty pounds a year, out of which he had to afford fifteen shillings a week during term time to lodge with Mrs. Munday, at the little shop in the West Street....

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...ays he was assistant master in the Whortley Proprietary School, Whortley , Sussex, and his wages were forty pounds a year, out of which he had to affo... ...the little shop in the West Street. He was called “Mr.” to distinguish him from the bigger boys, whose duty it was to learn, and it was a matter of st... ...es of “literature” to be precise, learn- ing extracts (preferably pompous) from the plays of William Shakespeare—and then to school and duty. The time... ...ending not to know gave her something to say. Mr. Lewisham nodded. “Of all people! Then”—frankly—”you have just found me out.” “I am afraid I have,” s... ...“It is nothing—it’s the proper thing for me to do, you know.” “But so many people won’t do it. Schoolmasters are not usually so—chivalrous.” He was ch... ...t side. And the guest was arrayed in a gay new dress, as if it was already Easter, and her face set in its dark hair came with a strange effect of min... ...emplated retorting with a sarcastic letter to the tutor. And then came the Easter recess, and he had to go home and tell his mother, with a careful su... ...e corners of her mouth down. “Home,” she said, “and begin again. It’s like battledore and shuttlecock…. “I was silly…. “I suppose I’ve brought it on m... ...afresh. Even the rhetorical Smithers availed noth- ing. There was a joined battle over the insufficient tea-cups, and the elderly young assistant demo...

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...Excerpt: Buda-Pesth seems a wonderful place, from the glimpse which I got of it from the train and the little I could walk through the streets. I feared to go very far from the station, as we had arrived late and would start as near the correct time as possible....

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...ved at 6:46, but train was an hour late. Buda Pesth seems a wonderful place, from the glimpse which I got of it from the train and the little I could ... ...ain and the little I could walk through the streets. I feared to go very far from the station, as we had arrived late and would start as near the cor ... ...ble. The impression I had was that we were leaving the West and entering the East;the most western of splen did bridges over the Danube, which is her... ...leman of that coun try. I find that the district he named is in the extreme east of the country, just on the borders of three states, Transylvania, M... ...eep the outside edge of a river clear. At every station there were groups of people, some Chapter 1 5 times crowds, and in all sorts of attire. Som... ... the seventeenth century it underwent a siege of three weeks and lost 13,000 people, the casu alties of war proper being assisted by famine and dis ... ... castle, from whose tall black windows came no ray of light,and whose broken battle ments showed a jagged line against the sky. Chapter 1 19 CHAPTER... ... broken. The shadows are many, and the wind breathes cold through the broken battlements and case ments. I love the shade and the shadow, and would ... ...thout it. TELEGRAM, VAN HELSING, ANTWERP, TO SEWARD, CARFAX (Sent to Carfax, Sussex, as no county given, delivered late by twenty two hours.) 17 Septe...

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...g the last half of the twelfth century, it received its great est impulse from Crestien de T roies, the most distinguished of the trouvères. The met... ...year of his birth or of his death, but we know that he lived approximately from 1100 to 1175. Practically all our information about his life is what h... ...ything, or see everything … God distributes differ ent gifts to different people. Each man should show his worth in that which God has given him.” He... ...g account of the advance of the Normans under William the Conqueror at the Battle of Hastings:— “T aillefer, who sang right well, mounted on a charger... ...I beg you and fervently I pray you, grant me to deal the first blow in the battle!’ The duke replied, ‘I grant it.’ And Taillefer pricked on at full g... ...sed Constantine to be slain. Great was the sorrow the lords and all honest people made above their king, for the realm had now no prince, save only th... ... quittance of his ransom, and to come forth from prison, Vortigern granted Sussex, Essex, and Middlesex to Hengist as his fief, besides that earldom o... ... to an end, he set forth to London, where he purposed to take the crown on Easter Day. Uther desired the feast to be very rich and great. He summoned ... ...nd chastising many sinners after their deservings. Now it befell that when Easter was come, Arthur held high feast at Paris with his friends. On that ...

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...Excerpt: Deceived in Friendship and Betrayed in Love.? Letter the First From Isabel to Laura How often, in answer to my repeated intreaties that you would give my Daughter a regular detail of the Misfortunes and Adventures of your Life, have you said ?No, my friend never will I comply with your r...

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................ 92 THE FIRST ACT OF A COMEDY .............................................................................................. 93 A LETTER from a YOUNG LADY, whose feelings being too strong for her Judgement led her into the commission of Errors which her Heart disapproved. ............................................................................................

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................................................................. 93 A LETTER from a YOUNG LADY , whose feelings being too strong for her Judgement led h... ........................................ 96 A TOUR THROUGH W ALES—in a LETTER from a YOUNG LADY— ........................................................... ...as suited to meditation. A grove of full-grown Elms sheltered us from the East—. A Bed of full-grown Nettles from the West—. Before us ran the murm... ...d her to admire the noble Grandeur of the Elms which sheltered us from the Eastern Zephyr. “Alas! my Laura (returned she) avoid so melancholy a subje... ...nly inconvenience attending it was the Scarcity of Plays which for want of People to fill the Characters, we could perform. We did not mind trifles h... ...ly removed from each other, is vastly moving. I live in Perthshire, You in Sussex. We might meet in London, were my Father disposed to carry me there... ...ut one genteel family since we came. Mr and Mrs Marlowe are very agreable people; the ill health of their little boy occasioned their arrival here; y... ...ty then turned his thoughts to France, where he went and fought the famous Battle of Agincourt. He afterwards married the King’s daughter Catherine, ... ...uld not have burnt her — 63 Jane Austen but they did. There were several Battles between the Yorkists and Lancastrians, in which the former (as they...

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...ing committed the care of his literary Character and printed Writings to two friends, Archdeacon Hare and myself. His estimate of the bequest was far from overweening; to few men could the small sum-total of his activities in this world seem more inconsiderable than, in those last solemn days, it did to him. He had burnt much; found much unworthy; looking steadfastly into ...

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...o friends, Archdeacon Hare and myself. His estimate of the bequest was far from overweening; to few men could the small sum-total of his activities in... ...d by his position as a Churchman, had been led, in editing a Work not free from ecclesiastical heresies, and especially in writing a Life very full of... ...thers were but features and transitory hues, that we wish to know him. His battle with hereditary Church formulas was severe; but it was by no means h... ...with hereditary Church formulas was severe; but it was by no means his one battle with things inherited, nor indeed his chief battle; neither, accordi... ...it.—Simple peasant laborers, ploughers, house- servants, occasional fisher-people too; and the sight of ships, and crops, and Nature’s doings where Ar... ...dism when they have any character;—for the rest, an innocent good- humored people, who all drink home-brewed beer, and have brown loaves of the most e... ...or decoration has been neglected here. Its effect from the distance on the eastward is very pretty: you see it like a little sleeping cataract of whit... ...hat they should refit and arm and man it;—and sail a- privateering “to the Eastern Archipelago,” Philippine Isles, or I know not where; and so conquer... ...pportunity for taking orders having come; and as Rector of Herstmonceux in Sussex, a place patrimonially and otherwise endeared to him, was about ente...

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...e too late for that crowning revolution in human potentialities. And apart from this pro- crastination of over forty years, the guess at the opening p... ...excluding the 5 H G Wells United States, Russia, and most of the ‘subject peoples’ of the world), meeting obscurely amidst a world-wide disre- gard t... ...shaping the world, has thus far remained a dream. H. G. Wells.H. G. WELLS. Easton Glebe, Dunmow, 1921. 6 The World Set Free PREL PREL PREL PREL PRELU... ...ttain- ment of external power. Man is the tool-using, fire- making animal. From the outset of his terrestrial career we find him supplementing the nat... ...ise women, soldiers and sail- ors in Egypt and China and Assyria and south-eastern Eu- rope at the beginning of that period, and they were doing much ... ... it boil away, seeing the lids of vessels dance with its fury; millions of people at different times must have watched steam pitching rocks out of vol... ... carry in his hand the energy to light a city for a year, fight a fleet of battleships, or drive one of our giant liners across the Atlantic; but we s... ... barbarian to stick this long knife into any- thing living. Anyhow in this battle I shouldn’t have had a chance. Assuming that by some miracle I hadn’... ...n who forestalled the building of a research city for the English upon the Sussex downs by buying up a series of es- tates, was dispossessed and laugh...

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...to Vettori, and it seems to me, now that I have released myself altogether from his literary precedent, that he still has his use for me. In spite of ... ...red, happier, finer, securer. They imagined cities grown more powerful and peoples made rich and mul- titudinous by their efforts, they thought in ter... ...s unfair. The old sort of Prince, the old little principality has vanished from the world. The commonweal is one man’s absolute es- tate and responsib... ...nk of huge clubs swarm- ing and excited by the bulletins of that electoral battle that was for me the opening opportunity . I see the stencilled names... ...an frontier beyond the worn places that were dismal swamps. And there were battles on the way. That great road is still clear in my memory. I was give... ... Natural History, a brand-new illustrated Green’s His- tory of the English People, Irving’s Companions of Columbus, a great number of unbound parts of... ...p coal; there was a wild outbreak of brickfields upon the claylands to the east, and the Great Growth had begun in earnest. The agricultural placiditi... ...n, which used to be three miles to the west, and Blamely four miles to the east of Bromstead, were experiencing similar distensions and proliferations... ...And we went on a reading party that Easter to a place called Pulborough in Sussex, where there is a fishing inn and a river that goes under a bridge. ...

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...f water-carriage and a sea-port; secondly, that it might be so far removed from the sea-board as to be safe from invasion; and, thirdly, that it might... ... into our hands, and we burned it. As regards the third point, Washington, from the lie of the land, can hardly have been said to be centrical at any ... ...ed cluster round that half of it which runs westward from the Capitol. The eastern end, running from the front of the Capitol, is again a desert. The ... ...t a plan.” The Capitol was intended to be the center of the city. It faces eastward, away from the Potomac—or rather from the main branch of the Potom... ...he general to whom is attributed—I believe most wrongfully—the loss of the battle of Bull’s Run. The whole place was then one camp. The fences had dis... ...on one deck, whereas a frigate would have them on two decks, and a line-of-battle ship on three. Of line-of-battle ships there will, I suppose, soon b... ...er mouth! Life in Alexan- dria at this time must have been sad enough. The people were all secessionists, but the town was held by the North- 25 Trol... ...iefly to the excel- lence of his cause, and the blood and character of the people who put him forward as their right arm in their contest; but that he... ... by the national government. We should not willingly trust to Yorkshire or Sussex to give us their contributions to the national income, especially if...

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...he collection has been made. It is rather intended as a treasury for young people, where they may find minuter particulars than their abridged histori... ...ew’s Germany. The Escape of Attalus is narrated 4 A Book of Golden Deeds (from Gregory of T ours) in Thierry’s ‘Lettres sur l’Histoire de France;’ th... ...dventures, and those of Prascovia Lopouloff true Elisabeth of Siberia, are from M. le Maistre; the shipwrecks chiefly from Gilly’s ‘Shipwrecks of the ... ...f the Dragon of Rhodes, and we fear we must add, both Nelson’s plan of the Battle of the Nile, and likewise the exact form of the heroism of young Cas... ...EED? T IS A GOLDEN DEED? T IS A GOLDEN DEED? WE ALL of us enjoy a story of battle and adventure. Some of us delight in the anxiety and excitement with... ...er and thicker from the volcano, and the liquid mud streamed down, and the people fled and struggled on, and still the sentry stood at his post, unfli... ...ht their way to him, putting all enemies in the valleys to flight. But the Eastern sun burnt on the bare rocks. A huge fis- sure, opening in the mount... ...e England. The chosen English king, Harold, had marched at full speed from Sussex to Yorkshire, and met the invaders marching at their ease, without e... ... Greece. ‘The Great King’, as the Greeks called the chief potentate of the East, whose domains stretched from the Indian Caucasus to the Aegaeus, from...

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...he beginning. Originally I intended Anticipations to be my sole digression from my art or trade (or what you will) of an imaginative writer. I wrote t... .... I have a slow con- structive hesitating sort of mind, and when I emerged from that undertaking I found I had still most of my questions to state and... ... and entertaining as its matter permits, because I want it read by as many people as possible, but I do not promise anything but rage and confusion to... ...ph entertainment is the one to grasp. There will be an effect of these two people going to and fro in front of the circle of a rather defective lanter... ...he camel, and the elephant may linger to play a part in the pageant of the East. But the burthen of the minor traffic, if not the whole of it, will ce... ...se of the stars…. Years ago, I went from the Nile across the Libyan Desert east, and then the stars—the stars in the later days of that journey—brough... ...ase are understood to be the superior races, in- cluding such types as the Sussex farm labourer, the Bowery tough, the London hooligan, and the Paris ... ...normal education of either race; they are brought up in homes that are the battle-grounds of con- flicting cultures; they labour under a heavy premium...

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...ion. He never spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. They were admirable things for the observer--excellent for drawing the veil from men?s motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which might throw a doubt upon all his mental r...

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.... They were admirable things for the observer — excellent for drawing the veil from men’s motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner to admit s... ...le memory. I had seen little of Holmes lately. My marriage had drifted us away from each other. My own complete happiness, and the home centred intere... ...ation as I could desire about Miss Adler, to say nothing of half a dozen other people in the neighbourhood in whom I was not in the least interested, ... ...that. When you raise your cry of fire, it will be taken up by quite a number of people. You may then walk to the end of the street, and I will rejoin y... ...I never hope to see such a sight as that again, Mr. Holmes. From north, south, east, and west every man who had a shade of red in his hair had tramped... ...ur years. About 1869 or 1870 he came back to Europe and took a small estate in Sussex, near Horsham. He had made a very considerable fortune in the St... ...d orange pips. “This is the envelope,” he continued. “The postmark is London — eastern division. Within are the very words which were upon my father’s... ...t the appearance of Peterson, so that he was left in possession of the field of battle, and also of the spoils of victory in the shape of this battered...

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...Excerpt: If you look at a map of the World, you will see, in the left-hand upper corner of the Eastern Hemisphere, two Islands lying in the sea. They are England and Scotland, and Ireland. England and Scotland form the greater part of these Islands. Ireland is the next in size. The little neighboring islands, which are...

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...T A M AP of the World, you will see, in the left hand upper corner of the Eastern Hemi sphere, two Islands lying in the sea. They are England and Sc... ...ea was not alive, then, with great ships and brave sailors, sailing to and from all parts of the world. It was very lonely. The Is lands lay solitary... ... nothing of them. It is supposed that the Phoenicians, who were an ancient people, famous for carrying on trade, came A Child’s Histroy of England 8... ...iling over to the opposite coasts of France and Belgium, and saying to the people there, ‘We have been to those white cliffs across the water, which y... ...hose white cliffs across the water, which you can see in fine weather, and from that country, which is called Britain, we bring this tin and lead,’ te... ... command; and would stand still by themselves, in all the din and noise of battle, while their masters went to fight on foot. The Britons could not ha... ...itish chariots, they trembled in their hearts. Besides a number of smaller battles, there was a battle fought near Canter bury, in Kent; there was a ... ...chiefs, came pouring into Britain. One body, conquering the Britons in the East, and settling there, called their kingdom Essex; another body settled ... ...d of these Londoners and other forces, and fol lowed the King to Lewes in Sussex, where he lay encamped with his army. Before giving the King’s force...

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...said Arthur. Sir, ye shall not wit as at this time. Then shall ye and I do battle to- gether, said King Arthur. Why, said Sir Tristram, will ye do bat... ...ay have had great travail, and therefore ye are a villainous knight to ask battle of me, considering my great travail; howbeit I will 4 Thomas Malory... ...s, of your great goodness, for ye have rescued me of my life, and saved me from my death. What is your name? said Sir Tristram. He said: My name is Si... ...is tower, there came out Sir Breuse Saunce Pité, and suddenly he struck me from my horse. And then or I might recover my horse this Sir Breuse slew th... ...oath, they withdrew them to the Castle of Tintagil with great slaughter of people; and the Sessoins followed on fast, that ten of them were put within... ...hus they fought till it was night, and for great slaughter and for wounded people everych party drew to their rest. And when King Mark was come within... ... came to a castle that is called Magouns, and now it is called Arundel, in Sussex. And the Constable of the castle welcomed her, and said she was welc... ...e is likened to summer. A nd thus it passed on from Candlemass until after Easter, that the month of May was come, when every lusty heart beginneth to... ... sore against my heart. And then he held up his hands, and looked into the east, saying secretly unto himself: Thou blessed Father, Son, and Holy Ghos...

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...man only and Forster, who had that day forcibly sent away all her servants from her to Abington market, about three miles distant from this place; the... ...n her head), yet the inhabitants will tell you there that she was conveyed from her usual chamber where she lay, to another where the bed’s head of th... ...rt, I’m told, is beauty’s throne, Where every lady’s passing rare, That Eastern flowers, that shame the sun, Are not so glowing, not so fair. “T... ...the sun set where it rises, and has travelled till the west has become the east.” “Thou hast brought back one traveller’s gift with thee, Mike, as I w... ...ts founded on the credit of his house, and the construction which the good people of Cumnor might put upon such an unsocial humour. “By my faith, sir,... ...d the Earl. “Nay, my lord, you must give me leave to conclude my picture. —Sussex governs England—the Queen’s health fails— the succession is to be se... ...uite intelligible, must begin at some distance back. You have heard of the battle of Stoke, my good host, and perhaps of old Sir Roger Robsart, who, i... ...of Stoke, my good host, and perhaps of old Sir Roger Robsart, who, in that battle, valiantly took part with Henry VII., the Queen’s grandfather, and r... ...en head of his, gave him the power of enjoying other 135 Sir Walter Scott people’s distresses, as she gave them the pleasure of laughing at his uglin...

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...er nearing to pass, when the girl opened on him, as if lifting her eyelids from sleep to the window, a full side—look, like a throb, and no disguise—n... ...r heart came quietly out. The look was like the fall of light on the hills from the first of morning. It lasted half a minute, and left a ruffle for a... ...valry, whose charge at the head of fifteen hundred horse in the last great battle shattered the enemy’s right wing, and gave us the victory—rolled him... ...and there was a question or two about names, which belonged to verses, for people caring to read poems. To the joy of the school he displayed a greate... ... enthusiasms were salt to a man; and he liked Shalders for spelling at his battles and thinking he understood them, and admiring Murat, and leading Vi... ...judgement on him. According to Mr. Shalders, the opinion of all thoughtful people in England was with John Company and the better part of the Press to... ...der one aspect we appear potteringly European; under another, drunk of the East. Lord Ormont’s ride at the head of two hundred horsemen across a stret... ...braltar or Malta, or com- mand of one of our military districts. The South-eastern ‘ll be vacant soon. He’d like to be Constable of the Castle, and ha... ...ing crisp sentences, hard on the mat- ter, without garnish of scorn. Kent, Sussex, Surrey, all the southern heights about London, round away to the so...