You are here
قراءة كتاب The Tory Maid
تنويه: تعرض هنا نبذة من اول ١٠ صفحات فقط من الكتاب الالكتروني، لقراءة الكتاب كاملا اضغط على الزر “اشتر الآن"
The
Tory Maid
By
HERBERT BAIRD
STIMPSON
New York
Dodd, Mead and Company
Copyright, 1898, by H. B. Stimpson.
To
Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Hall Harrison
this volume
is affectionately inscribed by
the Author
CONTENTS
| Chapter | Page | |
| I. | We Start for the War | 1 |
| II. | We Meet the Maid | 10 |
| III. | A Flash of Steel | 24 |
| IV. | The Red Cockade | 34 |
| V. | Sir Squire of Tory Dames | 44 |
| VI. | A Tale is Told | 55 |
| VII. | The Defiance of the Tory | 68 |
| VIII. | The Black Cockade | 77 |
| IX. | The Red Tide of Blood | 89 |
| X. | The Harrying of the Tory | 107 |
| XI. | The Council of Safety | 118 |
| XII. | The Veto of a Maid | 132 |
| XIII. | The Greeting of Fair Lips | 146 |
| XIV. | The Return of the Tory | 156 |
| XV. | The Flag of Truce | 166 |
| XVI. | The Ball of My Lord Howe | 176 |
| XVII. | An Exchange of Courtesies | 187 |
| XVIII. | The Crossing of Swords | 196 |
| XIX. | The Sands of Monmouth | 206 |
| XX. | In the Lines of the Enemy | 222 |
| XXI. | The Passing of Years | 230 |
| XXII. | The Coming of the Maid | 238 |
The Tory Maid
CHAPTER I
WE START FOR THE WAR
I, James Frisby of Fairlee, in the county of Kent, on the eastern shore of what was known in my youth as the fair Province of Maryland, but now the proud State of that name, growing old in years, but hearty and hale withal, though the blood courses not through my veins as in the days of my youth, sit on the great porch of Fairlee watching the sails on the distant bay, where its gleaming waters meet the mouth of the creek that runs at the foot of Fairlee. A julep there is on the table beside me, flavoured with mint gathered by the hands of John Cotton early in the morning, while the dew was still upon it, from the finest bank in all Kent County.
So with these old friends around me, with the julep on my right hand and the paper before me, I sit on the