The Missing Bride
The Missing Bride

The Missing Bride

The Missing BrideThat the founder of Luckenough was Alexander Kalouga, a Polish soldier of fortune, some time...
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Author: Southworth, Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte,1819-1899
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The Missing Bride

The Missing Bride

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The Missing Bride

The Missing Bride

$105.82 $52.88
Author: Southworth, Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte,1819-1899
Format: eBook
Language: English
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The Missing Bride

That the founder of Luckenough was Alexander Kalouga, a Polish soldier of fortune, some time in the service of Cecilius Calvert, Baron of Baltimore, first Lord Proprietary of Maryland. This man had, previous to his final emigration to the New World, passed through a life of the most wonderful vicissitudeswonderful even for those days of romance and adventure. It was said that he was born in one quarter of the globe, educated in another, initiated into warfare in the third and buried in the fourth. In his boyhood he was the friend and pupil of Guy Fawkes; he engaged in the Gunpowder Plot, and after witnessing the terrible fate of his master, he escaped to Spanish America, where he led for years a sort of buccaneer life. He afterwards returned to Europe, and then followed years of military service wherever his hireling sword was needed. But the soldier of fortune was ill-paid by his mistress. His misfortunes were as proverbial as his bravery, or as his energetic complaints of "ill luck" could make them. He had drawn his sword in almost every quarrel of his time, on every battlefield in Europe, to find himself, at the end of his military career, no richer than he was at its beginningsave in wounds and scars, honor and glory, and a wife and son. It was at this point of his life that he met with Leonard Calvert, and embarked with him for Maryland, where he afterwards received from the Lord Proprietary the grant of the manor "aforesaid." It is stated that when the old soldier went with some companions to take a look at his new possessions, he was so pleased with the beauty, grandeur, richness and promise of the place that a glad smile broke over his dark, storm-beaten, battle-scarred face, and he remained still "smiling as in delighted visions," until one of his friends spoke and said: ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 14382
Author: Southworth, Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte
Release Date: Dec 20, 2004
Format: eBook
Language: English

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