An English Squire
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Coleridge Christabel Rose. An English Squire
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
PART II. Brothers
Chapter One. Life and Death
Chapter Two. Face to Face
Chapter Three. In the Thick of the Fight
Chapter Four. Struggling
Chapter Five. Misgivings
Chapter Six. A Crisis
Chapter Seven. Farewell
PART III. Seville
Chapter One. Fighting the Dragon
Chapter Two. San José
Chapter Three. Seville
Chapter Four. El Toro
Chapter Five. Nettie at Bay
Chapter Six. Broken Links
Chapter Seven. Don Juan
Chapter Eight. Civis Romanus Sum
Chapter Nine. Jack on his Mettle
Chapter Ten. A Summons
Part IV
Chapter One. The Funeral
Chapter Two. The New Master
Chapter Three. Plans and Experiments
Chapter Four. The Dragon Slayer
Chapter Five. A New Suggestion
Chapter Six. A New Ambition
Chapter Seven. No Use
Chapter Eight. Revenge
Chapter Nine. A New Life
Chapter Ten. My Lady and My Queen
Chapter Eleven. My Dear!
Chapter Twelve. The Yeomanry Meeting
Epilogue
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Some few years ago Mr Gerald Lester was the head of a family of good blood and position, and the owner of Oakby Hall, the great house of a village of the same name in the county of Westmoreland. The border line between Westmoreland and Yorkshire crossed his property; but his house and park were in the former county, for which he was a deputy sheriff and justice of the peace.
He was not a man of very large fortune, and Oakby Hall was not a show place, but a well-built mansion of the last century, with some architectural pretensions, and standing in the midst of that sort of wild and romantic scenery which, perhaps more than any other, fixes the affections of its inhabitants. Oakby, at any rate, was very dear to its owner.
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“Cheriton is late too,” said Alvar.
“No,” said Jack, “he’s gone to Church.”
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