The Lion of the North: A Tale of the Times of Gustavus Adolphus

The Lion of the North: A Tale of the Times of Gustavus Adolphus
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Henty George Alfred. The Lion of the North: A Tale of the Times of Gustavus Adolphus

PREFACE

CHAPTER I THE INVITATION

CHAPTER II SHIPWRECKED

CHAPTER III SIR JOHN HEPBURN

CHAPTER IV NEW BRANDENBURG

CHAPTER V MARAUDERS

CHAPTER VI THE ATTACK ON THE VILLAGE

CHAPTER VII A QUIET TIME

CHAPTER VIII THE SIEGE OF MANSFELD

CHAPTER IX THE BATTLE OF BREITENFELD

CHAPTER X THE PASSAGE OF THE RHINE

CHAPTER XI THE CAPTURE OF OPPENHEIM

CHAPTER XII THE PASSAGE OF THE LECH

CHAPTER XIII CAPTURED BY THE PEASANTS

CHAPTER XIV IN THE CHURCHTOWER

CHAPTER XV A TIMELY RESCUE

CHAPTER XVI THE SIEGE OF NUREMBERG

CHAPTER XVII THE DEATH OF GUSTAVUS

CHAPTER XVIII WOUNDED

CHAPTER XIX A PAUSE IN HOSTILITIES

CHAPTER XX FRIENDS IN TROUBLE

CHAPTER XXI FLIGHT

CHAPTER XXII THE CONSPIRACY

CHAPTER XXIII THE MURDER OF WALLENSTEIN

CHAPTER XXIV MALCOLM’S ESCAPE

CHAPTER XXV NORDLINGEN

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It was late in the afternoon in the spring of the year 1630; the hilltops of the south of Scotland were covered with masses of cloud, and a fierce wind swept the driving rain before it with such force that it was not easy to make way against it. It had been raining for three days without intermission. Every little mountain burn had become a boiling torrent, while the rivers had risen above their banks and flooded the low lands in the valleys.

The shades of evening were closing in, when a lad of some sixteen years of age stood gazing across the swollen waters of the Nith rushing past in turbid flood. He scarce seemed conscious of the pouring rain; but with his lowland bonnet pressed down over his eyes, and his plaid wrapped tightly round him, he stood on a rising hummock of ground at the edge of the flood, and looked across the stream.

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“‘Tis a famous drink,” Hume said, “and there is nowhere I enjoy it so much as in Scotland, for the cold here seems to have a knack of getting into one’s very marrow, though I will say there have been times in the Low Countries when we have appreciated such a draught. Well, and how goes it with you, Graheme?”

“Things might be better; in fact, times in Scotland have been getting worse and worse ever since King James went to England, and all the court with him. If it were not for an occasional raid among the wild folks of Galloway, and a few quarrels among ourselves, life would be too dull to bear here.”

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