The Lion's Whelp
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Barr Amelia E.. The Lion's Whelp
BOOK I. The Hour and The Man
CHAPTER I. SWAFFHAM AND DE WICK
CHAPTER II. DOCTOR JOHN VERITY
CHAPTER III. WOVEN OF LOVE AND GLORY
CHAPTER IV. SO SWEET A DREAM
CHAPTER V. SHEATHED SWORDS
BOOK II. The Tools To Those Who Can Handle Them!
CHAPTER VI. ON THE TIDE TOP
CHAPTER VII. TWO LOVE AFFAIRS
CHAPTER VIII. UPON THE THRESHOLD
CHAPTER IX. CROMWELL INTERFERES
CHAPTER X. RUPERT AND CLUNY
BOOK III. Oliver The Conqueror
CHAPTER XI. OLIVER PROTECTOR
CHAPTER XII. HOLD THOU MY HANDS
CHAPTER XIII. CHANGES AT DE WICK
CHAPTER XIV. A LITTLE FURTHER ON
CHAPTER XV. THE FATE OF LORD CLUNY NEVILLE
CHAPTER XVI. OLIVER THE CONQUEROR
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"Sway the tide of battle which way it will, human existence is held together by its old, and only tenure of earnest thoughts, and quiet affections."
During the seventeenth century Swaffham Manor House was one of the most picturesque dwellings in Cambridgeshire. It was so old that it had a sort of personality. It was Swaffham. For as the Yorkshireman, in speaking of his beloved rivers, disdains the article "the" and calls them with proud familiarity, Aire, Ure, Ribble, so to the men of the country between Huntingdon and Cambridge, this ancient dwelling was never the Manor House; it was the synonym of its builders, and was called by their name – Swaffham. For it was the history of the Swaffham family in stone and timber, and no one could enter its large, low rooms without feeling saturated and informed with the spiritual and physical aura of the men and women who had for centuries lived and died under its roof.
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"A most astonishing difference!" answered Matilda, drawing on her gloves impatiently, "to be murdered with consent of Parliament! that is lawful; without consent of Parliament, that is very wicked indeed. But even as a man you might pity him."
"Pity him! Not I! He has his just reward. He bound himself for his enemies with cords of his own spinning. But you will not see the truth, Matilda – "
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