The Tor Hill by the Author of 'Brambletye House'
by Horace Smith
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9780217611459
Paperback|9780217611459
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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. Lady those charms of stately mien, In rural shades, on village green, But waste their powers: Your Queen invites;?a nohler place Your presence claims, ?then come and grace Our courtly bowers. The King of the Hill, more than ever entitled to that proud appellation since his recent victory had confirmed him in the possession of all his usurped power and property, was thus left at leisure to perfect his schemes of vengeance and aggrandisement. Upon Dudley, now that he had driven him to sanctuary, he could not immediately inflict any further outrage, though he took care to keep such charges hanging over his head, as would effectually deter him from quitting the asylum he had chosen: against thecharacter and even the life of his ancient enemy, the Lord Abbot of Glastonbury, he was daily maturing a conspiracy of the blackest and most treacherous character. Cecil Hungerford, after his slow recovery from the late alarming burst of phrensy, had sunk into a deeper dejection and despondency than ever; so that Sir Lionel, who saw himself fortified, both by legal sanction and by Dudley's self-imposed imprisonment, against any new claims on behalf of the poor lunatic, as he now affected to call him, almost ceased to trouble his head about him, leaving him to the good or bad treatment of his keepers, with the most peremptory orders, however, that they should never lose sight of him. Thus a considerable time passed away without any material alteration at The Tor House, whose lord and master was daily held in increased detestation by all the virtuous and the good, although their long experience of his power and fiend-like subtlety, and the general conviction, that by some tremendous soul-devoting bond he had secured infernal abettors of his villainy, deterred even the st..
| ISBN-13 | 9780217611459 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217611451 |
| Weight | 0.43 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.29 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 124 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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