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Praise for Bernard Cornwell’s THE NATHANIEL STARBUCK CHRONICLES

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THE NATHANIEL STARBUCK CHRONICLES

BOOK THREE

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“In which cause we must all be prepared to suffer, Galloway,” the Reverend Starbuck exclaimed as he followed the Major up the veranda steps and into the hallway. The house echoed like an empty building, which it very nearly was, for with the exception of a few essential pieces of furniture Galloway had sent all his books and pictures and drapes and ornaments north into storage so that his rebellious neighbors could not take revenge on his allegiance by stealing his valuables. And if his neighbors did not steal the goods, he explained, his own brother would. “My brother fights for the South, alas,” Major Galloway told the preacher, “and he’d like nothing more than to take the house and its contents from me.” He paused for an instant. “There’s nothing sadder, sir, is there, than family members fighting on opposite sides?” The Reverend Starbuck offered a belligerent grunt as answer, and that ill-tempered noise should have warned Major Galloway against proceeding further with the conversation, but the Major was a guileless man. “Am I right, sir,” Galloway asked, “in believing you have a son who fights with the rebels?”

“I know of no such person,” the preacher said, stiffening perceptibly.

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