The Loyalist's Daughter, by a Royalist

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154

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236 g

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER XVIIL I can no other answer make, bnt Thanks, And Thanks, and ever Thanks.?Shakespeare. A grandam's name is little less in love Than is the doting title of a mother.?Shakelpeare. Hubert and Hough seeing that the company had taken their final departure, and that there was no further commotion or restraint, determined to make their way out of the house as speedily as possible. The doors, however, had been locked, and, according to the rule of the house, the keys carried to the valiant and now recruited Mr. Faircloth for safe keeping. That gentleman had retired for the night, so that Hough and Hubert remained prisoners still in Hurley House. While wandering through the corridors, in hopes of finding some mode of egress, they heard the merry voices of the rest of the crew, and followed the sound until they entered an apartment at a distant part of the house, where they found them regaling themselves with a good supper, which Miss Penderel had ordered to be laid out for them. Hough was only too glad once more to join his youngfriends, and they all sat down, inviting Hubert to join them, after their evening's work, as merry as crickets. Hough eagerly asked what news they had acquired, and what perils they had escaped. The Right Reverend Colonel Compton, they remarked satirically, had once more bristled up his courage into all the military ardour he had felt twenty-eight years ago in the Life Guards. The figure which he made in the progress of the Princess Anne had been the talk of the county. Next to the Prince of Wales, the king's chief object of anxiety was the great seal, which he feared would be fished up out of the Thames? such were the powers this talisman possessed. The grand jury of Middlesex had found a bill against the Earl of Salisbury for turnin...

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