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The Armourer's Prentices
Set during the early Tudor period, the story revolves around two brothers, Ambrose and Stephen Birkenholt, who are forced to seek their fortunes in the world following their father's death.
"The Armourer's Prentices" by Charlotte M. Yonge is a historical novel. Set during the early Tudor period, the story revolves around two brothers, Ambrose and Stephen Birkenholt, who are forced to seek their fortunes in the world following their father's death.
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“Give me the poor allottery my father left me by testament, with that I will go buy me fortunes.” “Get you with him, you old dog.”
The officials of the New Forest have ever since the days of the Conqueror enjoyed some of the pleasantest dwellings that southern England can boast.
The home of the Birkenholt family was not one of the least delightful. It stood at the foot of a rising ground, on which grew a grove of magnificent beeches, their large silvery boles rising majestically like columns into a lofty vaulting of branches, covered above with tender green foliage. Here and there the shade beneath was broken by the gilding of a ray of sunshine on a lower twig, or on a white trunk, but the floor of the vast arcades was almost entirely of the russet brown of the fallen leaves, save where a fern or holly bush made a spot of green. At the foot of the slope lay a stretch of pasture ground, some parts covered by “lady-smocks, all silver white,” with the course of the little stream through the midst indicated by a perfect golden river of shining kingcups interspersed with ferns. Beyond lay tracts of brown heath and brilliant gorse and broom, which stretched for miles and miles along the flats, while the dry ground was covered with holly brake, and here and there woods of oak and beech made a sea of verdure, purpling in the distance.
Contents
- 01Preface
- 02Chapter I. The Verdurer’s Lodge
- 03Chapter II. The Grange of Silkstede
- 04Chapter III. Kinsmen and Strangers
- 05Chapter IV. A Hero’s Fall
- 06Chapter V. The Dragon Court
- 07Chapter VI. A Sunday in the City
- 08Chapter VII. York House
- 09Chapter VIII. Quipsome Hal
- 10Chapter IX. Arms Spiritual and Temporal
- 11Chapter X. Two Vocations
- 12Chapter XI. Ay DI Me Grenada
- 13Chapter XII. A King in a Quagmire
- 14Chapter XIII. A London Holiday
- 15Chapter XIV. The Knight of the Badger
- 16Chapter XV. Heave Half a Brick at Him
- 17Chapter XVI. May Eve
- 18Chapter XVII. Ill May Day
- 19Chapter XVIII. Pardon
- 20Chapter XIX. At the Antelope
- 21Chapter XX. Cloth of Gold on the Seamy Side
- 22Chapter XXI. Sword or Smithy
- 23Chapter XXII. An Invasion
- 24Chapter XXIII. Unwelcome Preferment
- 25Chapter XXIV. The Soldier
- 26Chapter XXV. Old Haunts
About this edition
- Author
- Charlotte M. Yonge
- Language
- English
- Era
- Modern (c. 1800–1945)
- Reading level
- Intermediate: some philosophy helps
- Formats
- EPUB, PDF
- Length
- 318 pages
- This edition
- Modern Philosophers
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