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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 State Electronic Classic... ...E LAIDLY LADY OF WHITBURN: A TALE OF THE WARS OF THE ROSES By Charlotte M. Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication GRISLY GRISELL, ... ...ge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication GRISLY GRISELL, or The Laidly Lady of Whitbern is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni-... ...lear that the mis- hap was accidental. The Lord of Whitburn himself was in Ireland with the Duke of York, while his lady was in atten- dance on the yo... ...port- ers were not wanting to tell her that the Queen called her the great northern hag, or that her rugged unwilling curtsey was said to look as if s... ... well. Her husband had kept her in some restraint, but when be had gone to Ireland with the Duke of York, offences seemed to multiply upon her. The la... ...tburn tramped down stairs. It may be feared that in the ignorance in which northern val- leys were left she was very little more enlightened in her id... ...ry heavy loads of seaweed when it froze her hands, besides a hundred other troubles. As to know- ing any kind of feminine art, she was as ignorant as ... ...nced that the cleanliness which the nuns had taught her would mitigate his troubles. With Thora to wash for her she hoped to institute a new order of ...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. On a bright Autumn day, as long ago as the year 943, there was a great bustle in the Castle of Bayeux in Normandy. The hall was large and low, the roof arched, and supported on thick short columns, almost like the crypt of a Cathedral; the walls were thick, and th...

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...The Little Duke By Charlotte M. Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Little Duke ... ...By Charlotte M. Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Little Duke by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania ... ...ge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Little Duke by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. T... ...te Electronic Classics Series Publication The Little Duke by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- tabl... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...s flowed down the war-worn cheeks which had met the fiercest storms of the northern ocean, as they bent before the young fatherless boy, whom they lov... ...harles the Simple to call us free Bretons liegemen to a race of plundering Northern pirates. T o Duke Rollo’s might, my father never gave his homage; ... ... came down, awakened at length. “It is Osmond who has helped me to bear my troubles; and as to saving me, why he flew away with me even like an old ea... ...on, and it is yours. Shall I take you a voyage, and harry the fat monks of Ireland?” Richard recoiled a little from his new friend. “Oh, ha! I forgot....

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Excerpt: My Young Alcides A Faded Photograph by Charlotte M. Yonge.

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...Preface: As the most striking lines of poetry are the most hackneyed, because they have grown to be the common inheritance of all the world, so many of the most noble deeds that earth can show have become the best known, and enjoyed thei...

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...A BOOK OF GOLDEN DEEDS BY CHARLOTTE M YONGE A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Book of Golden... ...ic Classics Series Publication A Book of Golden Deeds is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...one was the daughter of the old King Oedipus of Thebes. After a time heavy troubles, the consequence of the sins of his youth, came upon him, and he w... ...more full of mercy; namely, his halting his little army in full retreat in Ireland in the face of the English host under Roger Mortimer, that proper c... ...ough Sparta was safe below the Isthmus, had no intention of abandoning his northern allies, and kept the other Peloponnesians to their posts, only sen... ...- tains, whence they used to come down upon the rich plans 39 Yo n g e of northern Italy for forays, in which they slew and burnt, and drove off catt... ...nversation with him, and, after many kind words, persuaded him to tell his troubles. His sorrow was far less for his own condition than for the 200 A... ...ERILS ERILS ERILS ERILS ERILS 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 THE wild history of Ireland contains many a frightful tale, but also many an action of the nobl...

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...Excerpt: The United Force of the younger generation has been brought upon me to record, with the aid of diaries and letters, the circumstances connected with Chantry House and my two dear elder brothers. Once this could not have been ...

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...CHANTRY HOUSE by Charlotte M. Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pulication Chantry House by ... ...Series Pulication Chantry House by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furnish... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...ould point to our boundary wall, a little below the top of the hill on the northern side. He informed us that the place we had passed was Hillside—For... ...id grassy descent. Later constitutions, how- ever, must have eschewed that northern front door, and later nerves that narrow verge, and on the eastern... ...nly not. He has taken his family to Mrs. Castleford’s home in the north of Ireland for a month or six weeks. I don’t know the address, and I cannot ru... ... I am not dismissed yet, but shall get notice as soon as letters come from Ireland. I have written, but it is not in the nature of things that Mr. Cas... ...e did not expect to see them all like poor Master Clarence, as had had his troubles; the very life knocked out of him in his youth, as one might say. ... ...that not seeing as much of your sister as usual is one of my poor lassie’s troubles, but it may be best—it may be best.’ He lingered talking, unwillin...

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...THE CAGED LION by Charlotte M. Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Caged Lion b... ...by Charlotte M. Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Caged Lion by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania S... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ... glittering sun of a clear March day, dry and not too cold for these hardy northern folk. Nigel, the squire, sighed in despondency; and Malcolm, who h... ... art of war as a boy, first under Hotspur, in Wales; nor doth he love that northern fashion of ours of keeping up feud from genera- tion to generation... ...ourse, when he came to her as freely as did these young girls with all his troubles, he felt as if the King had destroyed all his joy and peace, and y... ...one way alone can you free me. Give up this wretched land of France, whose troubles are but lengthened by your valour. Let me gang to King Harry and t... ...e it! ’Tis the sword of my knighthood, when poor King Richard dubbed me in Ireland; and many a brave scheme came with it!’ The soft movement of the ba... ...L THE BEGGING SCHOLAR AR AR AR AR ‘THE POOR SCHOLAR,’ now only existing in Ireland and Brit- tany—nay, we believe extinct there since the schoolmaster...

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...Preface: There are of course peculiar advantages as well as disadvantages in endeavouring to write the life of one recently departed. On the one hand, the remembrances connected with him are far fresher; his contemporaries can he consulted, and much can be made matter of certainty, for which a few years would have made it ...

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...Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands By Charlotte Mary Yonge A Penn State Electronic Clas... ...ge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands By Charlotte Mary Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Life of John Col... ... Series Publication Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsy... ...gement. The next year, 1819, he was called to the Bar, and began to go the Northern circuit. On April 3, 1820, Mrs. Patteson died, leav- ing one daugh... ...any means a model boy. He was, indeed, deeply and warmly affectionate, but troublesome through outbreaks of will and temper, showing all the ordinary ... ...ough, but unnecessarily; as soon as the distress of the potato fam- ine in Ireland became known, Patteson said, ‘I am not at all for giving up these p... ...rendered reading and writing painful. Slight ailments concurred with other troubles and vexations to depress his spirits; and besides these outward ma... ...between his Commissioner-ship in the Ionian Isles and his Commandership in Ireland. He was connected with the Coleridges through the Yonge family, and... ...s por- tions of New Zealand. Finally, retaining only the north part of the northern island, to take the Melanesian Bishopric. ‘I urged this plan upon ...

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Excerpt: Young Folks? History of England by Charlotte M. Yonge.

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...Preface: To explain the present undertaking, it should be mentioned that a history of Hursley and North Baddesley was compiled by the Reverend John Marsh, Curate of Hursley, in the year 1808. It was well and carefully done, with a considerable a...

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