"All's Well"; or, Alice's Victory

Truly, Mistress, home to Staplehurst, and the fardel holdeth broadcloth for my lads new jerkins. The speakers were two women, both on the younger side of middle age, who met on the road between Staplehurst and Cranbrook, the former coming towards Cranbrook and the latter from it. They were in the midst of that rich and beautiful tract of country known as the Weald of Kent, once the eastern part of the great Andredes Weald, a vast forest which in Saxon days stretched from Kent to the border of Hampshire. There was still, in 1556, much of the forest about the Weald, and even yet it is a well-wooded part of the country, the oak being its principal tree, though the beech sometimes grows to an enormous size. Trees of the Weald were sent to Rome for the building of Saint Peters. Two little maids, neither old enough to earn a penny, and she a stranger in the town, pretty nigh, with never a quaintance saving them near about her, and I guess very few pennies in her purse. Ay, tis a sad look-out for Sens, poor heart. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 21233
Author: Holt, Emily Sarah
Release Date: Apr 27, 2007
Format: eBook
Language: English

"All's Well" or, Alice's Victory