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London Pride, or, When the World Was Younger
Set against the backdrop of the English Civil War, the story follows Sir John Kirkland, a loyalist cavalier, and his daughter Angela as they navigate the turbulent times of political strife and personal loss.
"London Pride, Or, When the World Was Younger" by M. E. Braddon is a historical novel. Set against the backdrop of the English Civil War, the story follows Sir John Kirkland, a loyalist cavalier, and his daughter Angela as they navigate the turbulent times of political strife and personal loss.
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The wind howled across the level fields, and flying showers of sleet rattled against the old leathern coach as it drove through the thickening dusk. A bitter winter, this year of the Royal tragedy.
A rainy summer, and a mild rainy autumn had been followed by the hardest frost this generation had ever known. The Thames was frozen over, and tempestuous winds had shaken the ships in the Pool, and the steep gable ends and tall chimney-stacks on London Bridge. A never-to-be-forgotten winter, which had witnessed the martyrdom of England’s King, and the exile of her chief nobility, while a rabble Parliament rode roughshod over a cowed people. Gloom and sour visages prevailed, the maypoles were down, the play-houses were closed, the bear-gardens were empty, the cock-pits were desolate; and a saddened population, impoverished and depressed by the sacrifices that had been exacted and the tyranny that had been exercised in the name of Liberty, were ground under the iron heel of Cromwell’s red-coats.
The pitiless journey from London to Louvain, a journey of many days and nights, prolonged by accident and difficulty, had been spun out to uttermost tedium for those two in the heavily moving old leathern coach. Who and what were they, these wearied travellers, journeying together silently towards a destination which promised but little of pleasure or luxury by way of welcome—a destination which meant severance for those two?
Contents
- 01Chapter I. A Harbour from the Storm.
- 02Chapter II. Within Convent Walls.
- 03Chapter III. Letters from Home.
- 04Chapter IV. The Valley of the Shadow.
- 05Chapter V. A Ministering Angel.
- 06Chapter VI. Between London and Oxford.
- 07Chapter VII. At the Top of the Fashion.
- 08Chapter VIII. Superior to Fashion.
- 09Chapter IX. In a Puritan House.
- 10Chapter X. The Priest’s Hole.
- 11Chapter XI. Lighter Than Vanity.
- 12Chapter XII. Lady Fareham’s Day.
- 13Chapter XIII. The Sage of Sayes Court.
- 14Chapter XIV. The Millbank Ghost.
- 15Chapter XV. Falcon and Dove.
- 16Chapter XVI. Which Was the Fiercer Fire?
- 17Chapter XVII. The Motive—Murder.
- 18Chapter XVIII. Revelations.
- 19Chapter XIX. Dido.
- 20Chapter XX. Philaster.
- 21Chapter XXI. Good-Bye, London.
- 22Chapter XXII. At the Manor Moat.
- 23Chapter XXIII. Patient, Not Passionate.
- 24Chapter XXIV. “Quite Out of Fashion.”
- 25Chapter XXV. High Stakes.
- 26Chapter XXVI. In the Court of King’s Bench.
- 27Chapter XXVII. Bringers of Sunshine.
- 28Chapter XXVIII. In a Dead Calm.
- 29The End.
About this edition
- Author
- M. E. Braddon
- Language
- English
- Era
- Modern (c. 1800–1945)
- Reading level
- Intermediate: some philosophy helps
- Formats
- EPUB, PDF
- Length
- 439 pages
- This edition
- Modern Philosophers
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