Marshall Emma. Penshurst Castle in the Time of Sir Philip Sidney
PREFACE
BOOK I. Penshurst Castle
CHAPTER I. THE SISTERS
CHAPTER II. IN THE PARK
CHAPTER III. A STRANGE MEETING
CHAPTER IV. THE HAWK AND THE BIRD
CHAPTER V. RESISTANCE
CHAPTER VI. THREE FRIENDS
CHAPTER VII. WHITSUNTIDE, 1581
CHAPTER VIII. DEFEAT
CHAPTER IX. ACROSS THE FORD
BOOK II
CHAPTER X. AT WILTON
CHAPTER XI. LUMEN FAMILIÆ SUÆ
CHAPTER XII. FIRE AND SWORD
CHAPTER XIII. RESTORED
CHAPTER XIV. WHAT RIGHT?
CHAPTER XV. THE PASSING OF PHILIP
CHAPTER XVI. FOUR YEARS LATER – 1590
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1581. – 'There is time yet ere sunset; let me, I pray you, go down to the lych gate with the wheaten cake for Goody Salter.'
'Nay, Lucy; methinks there are reasons for your desire to go down to the village weightier than the wheaten cake you would fain carry with you. Rest quietly at home; it may be Humphrey will be coming to let us know if Mr Sidney has arrived at Penshurst. Why such haste, little sister?'
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Mr Sidney laughed.
'He shall come to no harm, Mistress Gifford. My hand is ready to stop him if he falls. But, indeed, there is no fear; he sits square and upright, like a man.'
