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Charlotte M. Yonge. Under the Storm
Under the Storm
Table of Contents
STEADFAST'S CHARGE
CHAPTER I. THE TRUST
CHAPTER II. THE STRAGGLERS
CHAPTER III. KIRK RAPINE
CHAPTER IV. THE GOOD CAUSE
CHAPTER V. DESOLATION
CHAPTER VI. LEFT TO THEMSELVES
CHAPTER VII. THE HERMIT'S GULLEY
CHAPTER VIII. STEAD IN POSSESSION
CHAPTER IX. WINTRY TIMES
CHAPTER X. A TERRIBLE HARVEST DAY
CHAPTER XI. THE FORTUNES OF WAR
CHAPTER XII. FAREWELL TO THE CAVALIERS
CHAPTER XIII. GODLY VENN'S TROOP
CHAPTER XIV. THE QUESTION
CHAPTER XV. A TABLE OF LOVE IN THE WILDERNESS
CHAPTER XVI. A FAIR OFFER
CHAPTER XVII. THE GROOM IN GREY
CHAPTER XVIII. JEPH'S GOOD FORTUNE
CHAPTER XIX. PATIENCE
CHAPTER XX. EMLYN'S SERVICE
CHAPTER XXI. THE ASSAULT OF THE CAVERN
CHAPTER XXII. EMLYN'S TROTH
CHAPTER XXIII. FULFILMENT
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Charlotte M. Yonge
Published by Good Press, 2021
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She had taught her children as much as she could. Her husband was willing, but his old mother disapproved of learning in that station of life, and aided and abetted her eldest grandson in his resistance, so that though she had died when he was only eleven or twelve years old, Jephthah could do no more than just make out the meaning of a printed sentence, whereas Steadfast and Patience could both read easily, and did read whatever came in their way, though that was only a broadside ballad now and then besides their mother's Bible and Prayer-book, and one or two little black books.
The three eldest had been confirmed, when the Bishop of Bath and Wells had been in the neighbourhood. That was only a fortnight after their mother died, and even Jeph was sad and subdued.
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