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...GRISLY GRISELL or THE LAIDLY LADY OF WHITBURN: A TALE OF THE WARS OF THE ROSES By Charlotte M. Yonge A Penn S... ...Electronic Classics Series Publication GRISLY GRISELL, or The Laidly Lady of Whitbern is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This P... ... her of the King’s interest and de- light in his beautiful freshly-founded Colleges at Eton and Cambridge, how the King rode down whenever he could to... ...t heraldically-embroidered covering. “Leonard Copeland and his father. Did’st not hear the horses’ tramp in the court?” “I thought it was only my lord... ...aved at him like a very sleuth-hound on the chase. And Leonard— what think’st thou he saith? “That he would as soon wed the loathly lady as thee,” the... ...luck would have it, I fell in with Jock of Redesdale and a few more honest fellows, who had ‘scaped. We found none but friends when we were well past ... ...ful. Ay? You will be her guardian, I see; but I must leave half a score of fellows for the defence, and will charge 93 Charlotte M. Young them that t... ...ever met I woman who was so good company! She might almost be a scholar at Oxford for her wit.” However much solace the lady might find in the courtes... ...rse luck.” “Heed not for thy knighthood. The Duke of Exeter and my Lord of Oxford have put their honours in their pouch and are serving him. Thy lame ...

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Excerpt: Unknown To History A Story of the Captivity of Mary of Scottland by Charlotte M Yonge.

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...THE BEWITCHED WHISTLE ...................................................................................................... 57 CHAPTER VII THE BLAST OF THE WHISTLE................................................................................................. 63 CHAPTER VIII THE KEY OF THE CIPHER ..............................................................................

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...Preface: It is the fashion to call every story controversial that deals with times when controversy or a war of religion was raging; but it should be remembered that there are some which only attempt to portray human feelings as affected by the events that such warfare occasioned. ?Old Mortality? and ?Woodstock? are not controversia...

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...Introduction: A certain degree of success, real or supposed, in the delineation of Queen Mary, naturally induced the author to attempt something similar respecting ?her sister and her foe,? the celebrated Elizabeth. He will not, however, pretend to have ap...

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...Introduction: Fielding?s third great novel has been the subject of much more discordant judgments than either of its forerunners. If we take the period since its appearance as covering four generations, we find the greatest authority in the earliest, Johnson, speaking of it with something...

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...ing it would be bad enough; but it goes further, into disastrous anarchical action. Because our marriage law is inhuman and unreasonable to the point of downright abomination, the bolder and more rebellious spirits form illicit unions, defiantly sending cards round to their friends announcing what they have done....

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