The Bravest of the Brave or, with Peterborough in Spain

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Henty George Alfred. The Bravest of the Brave or, with Peterborough in Spain

PREFACE

CHAPTER I: THE WAR OF THE SUCCESSION

CHAPTER II: IMPRESSED

CHAPTER III: A DOMESTIC STORM

CHAPTER IV: THE SERGEANT’S YARN

CHAPTER V: THE PIRATE HOLD

CHAPTER VI: A COMMISSION

CHAPTER VII: BARCELONA

CHAPTER VIII: A TUMULT IN THE CITY

CHAPTER IX: THE ADVANCE INTO VALENCIA

CHAPTER X: AN ADVENTURE IN THE MOUNTAINS

CHAPTER XI: VALENCIA

CHAPTER XII: IRREGULAR WARFARE

CHAPTER XIII: THE FRENCH CONVOY

CHAPTER XIV: A PRISONER

CHAPTER XV: THE RELIEF OF BARCELONA

CHAPTER XVI: INGRATITUDE

CHAPTER XVII: HOME

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“He is an idle vagabond!” the mayor of the good town of Southampton said, in high wrath—“a ne’er do well, and an insolent puppy; and as to you, Mistress Alice, if I catch you exchanging words with him again, ay, or nodding to him, or looking as if in any way you were conscious of his presence, I will put you on bread and water, and will send you away for six months to the care of my sister Deborah, who will, I warrant me, bring you to your senses.”

The Mayor of Southampton must have been very angry indeed when he spoke in this way to his daughter Alice, who in most matters had her own way. Especially did it show that he was angry, since he so spoke in the presence of Mistress Anthony, his wife, who was accustomed to have a by no means unimportant share in any decision arrived at respecting family matters.

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It was to deliver this letter that Jack had gone up to the back gate; and seeing Alice in the garden they had naturally fallen into conversation at the gate, when the mayor, looking out from the window of his warehouse, happened to see them, and went out in the greatest wrath to put a stop to the conversation.

Jack had indeed found a ship; she had come in from Holland with cloth and other merchandise, and was after she was discharged to sail for the colonies with English goods. She would not leave the port for some weeks; but he had seen the captain, who had agreed to take him as ship’s boy. Had the mayor been aware that his late apprentice was on the point of leaving he would not have interfered with his intention; but as he had peremptorily ordered that his name was not to be mentioned before him, and as Mrs. Anthony had no motive in approaching the forbidden subject, the mayor remained in ignorance that Jack was about to depart on a distant voyage.

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