The Yeoman Adventurer

By Gough, George Woolley

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Title:	The Yeoman Adventurer
Author:	Gough, George Woolley
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
Collections:	Classic Literature Collection, Blackmask Online Collection
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Publisher:	Blackmask Online


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Description
Excerpt: Chapter 1. THE GREAT JACK. Our Kate, Joe Braggs, and I all had a hand in the beginning, and as great results grew in the end out of the small events of that December morning, I will set them down in order. It began by my refusing point?blank to take Kate to the vicar?s to watch the soldiers march by. I loved the vicar, the grave, sweet, childless old man who had been a second father to me since the sad day which made my mother a widow, and but for the soldiers nothing would have been more agreeable than to spend the afternoon with the old man and his books. But my heart would surely have broken had I gone. A caged linnet is a sorry enough sight in a withdrawing?room, but hang the cage on a tree in a sunlit garden, with free birds twittering and flitting about it, and you turn dull pain into shattering agony. The vicar?s little study, with the rows of books he had made me know and love with some small measure of his own learning and passion, was the perch and seed?bowl of my cage, the things in it, after my sweet mother and saucy Kate, that made life possible, but still part of the cage, and it would have maddened me to hop and twitter there in sight of free men with arms in their hands and careers in front of them. Jack Dobson would march by, the sweetness of life for Kate?little dreamed she that I knew it?but for me the bitterness of death. Jack Dobson! I liked Jack, but not clinquant in crimson and gold, with spurs and sword clanking on the hard, frost?bitten road.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: The Yeoman Adventurer, 1 -- George W. Gough, 1 -- Chapter I. THE GREAT JACK, 2 -- Chapter II. THE SERGEANT OF DRAGOONS, 6 -- Chapter III. MISTRESS MARGARET WAYNFLETE, 10 -- Chapter IV. OUR JOURNEY COMMENCES, 15 -- Chapter V. THE ANCIENT HIGH HOUSE, 20 -- Chapter VI. MY LORD BROCTON, 27 -- Chapter VII. THE RESULTS OF LOSING MY VIRGIL, 31 -- Chapter VIII. THE CONJURER'S CAP, 38 -- Chapter IX. MY CAREER AS A HIGHWAYMAN, 44 -- Chapter X. SULTAN, 50 -- Chapter XI. IN WHICH I SLIP, 59 -- Chapter XII. THE GUEST?ROOM OF THE ?RISING SUN?, 64 -- Chapter XIII. PHARAOH'S KINE, 72 -- Chapter XIV. ?WAR HAS ITS RISKS?, 81 -- Chapter XV. IN THE MOORLANDS, 90 -- Chapter XVI. BONNIE PRINCE CHARLIE, 100 -- Chapter XVII. MY NEW HAT, 110 -- Chapter XVIII. THE DOUBLE SIX, 119 -- Chapter XIX. WHAT CAME OF FOPPERY, 131 -- Chapter XX. THE COUNCIL AT DERBY, 140 -- Chapter XXI. MASTER FREAKE KNOWS AT LAST, 150 -- Chapter XXII. A BROTHER OF THE LAMP, 160 -- Chapter XXIII. DONALD, 168 -- Chapter XXIV. MY LORD BROCTON PILES UP HIS ACCOUNT, 176 -- Chapter XXV. I SETTLE MY ACCOUNT WITH MY LORD BROCTON, 188 -- Chapter XXVI. THE WAY OF A MAID WITH A MAN, 200 -- EPILOGUE. THE LITTLE JACK, 204