An English Squire

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Christabel R. Coleridge. An English Squire

An English Squire

Table of Contents

Preface

PART ONE

Home Life

Chapter One

The Lesters of Oakby

Chapter Two

The Son and Heir

Chapter Three

A Mother of Heroes

Chapter Four

Strangers Yet!

Chapter Five

The Seytons of Elderthwaite

Chapter Six

Virginia

Chapter Seven

Fire and Snow

Chapter Eight

A Day of Rest

Chapter Nine

Ruth

Chapter Ten

The Old Parson

Chapter Eleven

Alvar Confidential

Chapter Twelve

The Oakby Ball

Chapter Thirteen

Two Sides of a Question

Chapter Fourteen

Virginia’s choice

Chapter Fifteen

A Bit of the Blarney

Chapter Sixteen

The Otter’s Glen

Chapter Seventeen

Rifts

Chapter Eighteen

Red Sunrise

Brothers

Chapter Nineteen

Life and Death

Chapter Twenty

Face to Face

Chapter Twenty One

In the Thick of the Fight

Chapter Twenty Two

Struggling

Chapter Twenty Three

Misgivings

Chapter Twenty Four

A Crisis

Chapter Twenty Five

Farewell

Seville

Chapter Twenty Six

Fighting the Dragon

Chapter Twenty Seven

San José

Chapter Twenty Eight

Seville

Chapter Twenty Nine

El Toro

Chapter Thirty

Nettie at Bay

Chapter Thirty One

Broken Links

Chapter Thirty Two

Don Juan

Chapter Thirty Three

Civis Romanus Sum

Chapter Thirty Four

Jack on his Mettle

Chapter Thirty Five

A Summons

The Squire of Oakby

The Squire of Oakby

Chapter Thirty Six

The Funeral

Chapter Thirty Seven

The New Master

Chapter Thirty Eight

Plans and Experiments

Chapter Thirty Nine

The Dragon Slayer

Chapter Forty

A New Suggestion

Chapter Forty One

A New Ambition

Chapter Forty Two

No Use

Chapter Forty Three

Revenge

Chapter Forty Four

A New Life

Chapter Forty Five

My Lady and My Queen

Chapter Forty Six

My Dear!

Chapter Forty Seven

The Yeomanry Meeting

Epilogue

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Christabel R. Coleridge

Published by Good Press, 2021

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“There’s nothing to say against the Seytons now,” said Cheriton hotly; muttering under his breath, “I hate prejudice.” Mr Lester’s entrance interrupted the discussion, though a long story of a broken fence between his property and Mr Seyton’s did not give it a smoother turn.

As Mr Seyton’s fences had been in a disgraceful condition for at least as long as Cheriton could remember, he was well aware that the present grievance was only an outlet for a deeper-seated one, but his grandmother struck in,—

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