It Might Have Been

Оглавление

Emily Sarah Holt. It Might Have Been

It Might Have Been

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter One

The last Night in the Old Home

Chapter Two

The Journey to London

Chapter Three

How it first began

Chapter Four

We get into bad Company

Chapter Five

Begins with Temperance, and ends with Treachery

Chapter Six

Wait a Month

Chapter Seven

An Apple-Cast and a Letter

Chapter Eight

The Fifth of November

Chapter Nine

On the weary Way to Holbeach

Chapter Ten

The Chain of our Sins

Chapter Eleven

According to that Beginning

Chapter Twelve

The Fruit of his own Way

Chapter Thirteen

Which is full of Surprises

Chapter Fourteen

Ends with Joyce Morrell

Chapter Fifteen

Appendix

Robert Catesby

Sir Everard Digby

Guy Fawkes

Henry Garnet

John Grant

Robert Keyes

Humphrey and Stephen Littleton

William Parker, Lord Monteagle

Thomas Percy

Ambrose Rookwood

Francis Tresham

Robert, Thomas, and John Winter

John and Christopher Wright

Отрывок из книги

Emily Sarah Holt

The Story of the Gunpowder Plot

.....

Milisent alighted with a rather brighter look—she was not wont to look any thing but bright—Robert took his leave and then came all the cousins pouring in to say good-bye. So the farewells were spoken, and they went on their journey; but as far as they could see until hidden by the hill round which they drove, Milisent’s handkerchief was waving after them.

Lady Louvaine bore the journey better than her daughters had feared; and our friends deemed themselves very happy that during the whole of it, they were not once overturned, and only four times stuck in the mud. At the end of the fourth day, which was Friday, they came up to the door of the Hill House at Minster Lovel. And as they lumbered round the sweep with their six horses, Edith cried joyously—“Oh, there’s old Rebecca!”

.....