The Fair Maid Of Graystones

Author : Beulah Marie Dix
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780483473300
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (733 download)

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Download or read book The Fair Maid of Graystones (Classic Reprint) written by Beulah Marie Dix and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-20 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Fair Maid of Graystones Sullenly enough, the prisoners broke apart and scattered; some with a selfish and sensible dread of consequences, should the sergeant, true to his word, order the guards to fire upon them; others, among them Verney Claybourne, with a fear Of imperilling Jock Hetherington the more by too stubborn a resistance. In little groups and knots they broke away, and while a few of them went to look to the injured man, whose injury had provoked the fight, the rest stood muttering among themselves, with eyes alert for any hostile movement on the part of the guards. Of all the prisoners Jock was the only one that kept his place in the middle of the nave, and he stayed there, partly, it must be owned, from youthful swagger, and partly from a prudent desire to recover his boots and his doublet, which he had cast Off promiscuously at the beginning of the fight. He had found the casting Off easy, for boots and doublet were both a size too large for him. Four and twenty hours before, when the fall of the long-besieged town Of Colchester had changed his estate from that of a gentleman volunteer of King Charles to that Of a prisoner to the Parliament, he had, like most of his comrades, made a forced exchange of gar ments with his captors, and had had much the worse of the bargain. Still he held that half-worn boots and a ragged doublet were better than none at all, so he prowled down the nave in anxious search of his missing property. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.