The Tor Hill by the Author of 'Brambletye House'
by Horace Smith
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9780217374781
Paperback|9780217374781
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. Ye gossips, alewives, crones ?with jugs, Cans, cruises, pottles, cups, and mugs, Each other greeting; Tell me, ye boozing beldames, why Yon monk is of your company, And what's your meeting ? The Duke of Vend6me having by this time returned to Montreuil, and learnt the death of his valiant prisoner, not only refused, with great generosity, to take any ransom for his squire, although it would have been readily found, as his connections were affluent, but gave orders that the body of Sir Giles should be escorted to the frontiers of the English pale with all military honours. Preceded by a trumpeter, and a mounted whiffler with his horn, the procession accordingly set forward on the following morning, the corpse being borne upon a caravan, the lance, sword, and harness, disposed around it, Dudley following, and the escort of demi-lances and archers on horseback bringing up the rear. In this order they reached the English frontier, when the French returned to their own quarters, and Sir Gilbert Talbot, having dispatched a guard of honour for the purpose, the body of the deceased was accompanied back to Calais, and carried under the archway of the Boulogne gate, which he had passed through a few mornings before, mounted on his stately wnr-horse, cased in armour of proof, and in the confident 'valour of his heart, anticipating a prosperous issue to his enterprise. What added to the melancholy feelings, which the present contrast was calculated to awaken in the breasts of the townspeople, was the recollection, that of the whole body of adventurers who had so gallantly inarched under his command, not a single individual was now left alive, so desperate had been the conflict, and so utter the destruction of the band. With all due solemnity, and in presence of the...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217374781 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217374786 |
| Weight | 0.40 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.28 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 116 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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