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The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3) A Family Mystery.
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Title: The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3)
A Family Mystery.
Author: Charles James Wills
Release Date: February 23, 2013 [eBook #42167]
Language: English
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THE
PIT TOWN CORONET:
A Family Mystery.
BY
CHARLES J. WILLS,
AUTHOR OF
IN THE LAND OF THE LION AND SUN, ETC.
IN THREE VOLUMES.
VOL. I.
WARD AND DOWNEY,
12, YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN, LONDON, W.C.
1888
[The right of translation is reserved and the Dramatic Copyright protected.]
PRINTED BY
KELLY AND CO., GATE STREET, LINCOLN'S INN FIELDS, W.C.;
AND MIDDLE MILL, KINGSTON-ON-THAMES.
THE PIT TOWN CORONET.
INSCRIBED
TO
EDMUND YATES, Esq.
CONTENTS.
| CHAP. | PAGE | |
| I. | —In the Rose Garden | 1 |
| II. | —The Croquet Party | 26 |
| III. | —The Village Dorcas | 45 |
| IV. | —Walls End Castle | 67 |
| V. | —At the Pandemonium Club | 96 |
| VI. | —Georgie's Wedding | 118 |
| VII. | —Lord Mayor's Day | 138 |
| VIII. | —At the Castle | 161 |
| IX. | —Anastatia's Courtship | 182 |
| X. | —Rome.—The Ballo Papayani | 205 |
| XI. | —A Meeting in the good Old Style | 229 |
| XII. | —The Villa Lambert | 256 |
THE PIT TOWN CORONET.
CHAPTER I.
IN THE ROSE GARDEN.
Big Reginald Haggard had been exceedingly attentive to the elder of two very pretty girls of the name of Warrender. Both families came from the eastern counties. The Warrenders had inhabited The Warren, or at all events the older portion of the house, for nearly four centuries. They were harmless people. They manfully stuck to their ancestral acres of fat Essex land. The present head of the family farmed the greater part of the estate himself, as his fathers had done before him. Many a Warrender had held the rich living of King's Warren, and the parson, whoever he might be, and the reigning Squire Warrender were always the two greatest men in King's Warren village and parish.
In the rather old-fashioned garden at The Warren sat a young lady, an open book upon her lap; the book was not a novel, it was an argumentative work, a book which dealt with the social problems of the day. But, alas! the book which Georgina Warrender had brought out with the serious intention of reading, for the Warrenders of either sex, though always soft-hearted, were a hard-headed race, lay upside down upon her lap. The fact is that she was