Mistress Spitfire

Mistress Spitfire - A Plain Account of Certain Episodes in the History of Richard Coope, Gent., and of His Cousin, Mistress Alison French, at the Time of the Revolution, 1642-1644

A Plain Account of Certain Episodes in the History of Richard Coope, Gent., and of His Cousin, Mistress Alison French, at the Time of the Revolution, 1642-1644 His study of the first and only love of a middle-aged man who, for forty years, has lived only in his work and his thoughts, has no touch of conventionality, but is a singularly truthful and vivid rendering of the late, sudden, and almost convulsive blossoming of a supreme passion.Daily Chronicle. Of my Meeting with my Kinsman, Anthony Dacre, at the Wayside Innof my Further Adventures, my Disinheritance by Sir Nicholas, and my Doings with the Parliamentariansand of my Employment on an Important Mission by General Oliver Cromwell42 At seven of the clock I turned away from the window, where, for a full hour, I had stood flattening my nose against the pane in a vain attempt to see something of interest in the dripping garden or the dank meadows outside. Sir Nicholas moved in his deep chair by the fire and then groaned, his old enemy catching him afresh and tweaking his great toe. Seeing that his pain had awakened him I went over and stood at his side. I saw the firelight glint on his frosted hair, and it woke in me some sleeping memory of a by gone winter. Yet then it was August, and had been a bright one, but that day we had suffered from a heavy rain which came with the dawn and kept pouring itself upon us without ceasing, so that no man putting his nose out o doors could have[2] said with certainty whether he sniffed April or November in the air. As for me, I was heartily sick of it and everything, and when my uncles silvery hair reminded me of winter I thought regretfully of the previous Christmas and of Mistress Catherine and the mistletoe that then hung over the very spot where I now stood watching Sir Nicholas making wry faces at his foot. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 48815
Author: Fletcher, J. S. (Joseph Smith)
Release Date: Apr 27, 2015
Format: eBook
Language: English

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Editor: Fletcher, J. S. (Joseph Smith), 1863-1935