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Robert Neilson Stephens. The Road to Paris
The Road to Paris
Table of Contents
ILLUSTRATIONS
INTRODUCTION
THE ROAD TO PARIS
CHAPTER I. A LODGE IN THE WILDERNESS
CHAPTER II "OVER THE HILLS AND FAR AWAY."
CHAPTER III. AT THE SIGN OF THE GEORGE
CHAPTER IV. OF A BROKEN SABBATH AND BROKEN HEADS
CHAPTER V. FROM BROADWAY TO BUNKER HILL
CHAPTER VI. THE WIND OF CIRCUMSTANCE
CHAPTER VII. THE MARCH THROUGH MAINE
CHAPTER VIII. WITHIN THE WALLS OF QUEBEC
CHAPTER IX. THE INCIDENTS OF A SNOWY NIGHT
CHAPTER X "BY FLOOD AND FIELD."
CHAPTER XI. THREE WHIMSICAL GENTLEMEN AND A BEAUTIFUL LADY
CHAPTER XII. THE DEVIL TO PAY AT THE PELICAN INN
CHAPTER XIII "UP AND DOWN IN LONDON TOWN."
CHAPTER XIV "FAIR STOOD THE WIND FOR FRANCE."
CHAPTER XV. AN ELOPEMENT FROM A DILIGENCE
CHAPTER XVI. PASTORAL AND TRAGEDY
CHAPTER XVII "STONE WALLS DO NOT A PRISON MAKE."
CHAPTER XVIII. DICK GIVES A SPECIMEN OF AMERICAN SHOOTING
CHAPTER XIX. THE FAVOR OF A PRINCE
CHAPTER XX. THE HONOR OF A LADY-IN-WAITING
CHAPTER XXI "THE ROAD TO PARIS."
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Robert Neilson Stephens
A Story of Adventure
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"From Hunter's Mill, and I can stay only a moment to give you the news, if you haven't heard it." He stopped his horse.
"Great news," said M'Cleland, controlling his voice with difficulty, while his eyes sparkled with excitement. "On the nineteenth the King's troops marched out from Boston to take some ammunition the people had stored at Concord. At Lexington they met a company of minutemen, and there were shots and bloodshed. The whole country around rose and killed God knows how many of the regulars on their way back to Boston. When the messengers left Cambridge, there was an army of Massachusetts men besieging the King's soldiers in Boston. There's no doubt about it. At Hunter's Mill I saw the man who met at Paxton the rider that talked in Philadelphia with the messenger from Cambridge, who had affidavits from Massachusetts citizens. Tell your people. I'm off up the river. Get up!"
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