Legends of Lancashire

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Peter Landreth. Legends of Lancashire

Legends of Lancashire

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PREFACE

INTRODUCTION

THE LEGEND OF. THE BATTLE OF WIGAN LANE

THE WITCHES OF FURNESS

THE DEVIL’S WALL

THE. PROPHETESS AND THE REBEL

THE. SPECTRE COACH OF LIVERPOOL

THE CROSS AND LADY MABEL

LANCASTER CASTLE

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Peter Landreth

Published by Good Press, 2019

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Here she was interrupted:—she beheld two forms in the distance, approaching, and she whispered to her mistress, to screen themselves from view, behind the enormous engine posted on the battlements. Scarcely had they done so, before they heard steps near them, and instantly a dead pause was made. A stern voice now lowly broke upon the silence, and Anne recognized it to be that of the stranger, only it seemed more authoritative, even in its whispers. “Is all safe? Is every thing in readiness?”

“Yes,” was the short reply of his companion, Colonel Seaton; but it was given in an obsequious and reverential tone.

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