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The King's Achievement By: Robert Hugh Benson (1871-1914) |
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By Robert Hugh Benson Author of "By What Authority?" "The Light Invisible,"
"A Book of the Love of Jesus," etc. Non minus principi turpia sunt multa supplicia, quam medico multa
funera. (Sen. de clem. 1, 24, 1.)
I must express my gratitude once more to the Rev. Dom Bede Camm,
O.S.B., as well as to the Very Rev. Mgr. Barnes, who have done me great
service in revising proofs and making suggestions; to the Rev. E.
Conybeare, who very kindly provided the coins for the cover design of
the book; to my mother and sister, to Eustace Virgo, Esq., to Dr.
Ross Todd, and to others, who have been extremely kind in various ways
during the writing of this book in the summer and autumn of 1904. I must also express my great indebtedness to the Right Rev. Abbot
Gasquet, O.S.B., both on account of his invaluable books, which I have
used freely, and for his personal kindness in answering my questions. ROBERT HUGH BENSON The Catholic Rectory,
Cambridge,
July 14, 1905. CONTENTS
BOOK I.
THE KING'S WILL. CHAPTER I. A DECISION
II. A FORETASTE OF PEACE
III. THE ARRIVAL AT LEWES
IV. A COMMISSION
V. MASTER MORE
VI. RALPH'S INTERCESSION
VII. A MERRY PRISONER
VIII. A HIGHER STEP
IX. LIFE AT LEWES
X. THE ARENA
XI. A CLOSING IN
XII. A RECOVERY
XIII. PRISONER AND PRINCE
XIV. THE SACRED PURPLE
XV. THE KING'S FRIEND
BOOK II.
THE KING'S TRIUMPH. PART I. THE SMALLER HOUSES. I. AN ACT OF FAITH
II. THE BEGINNING OF THE VISITATION
III. A HOUSE OF LADIES
IV. AN UNEXPECTED MEETING
V. FATHER AND SON
VI. A NUN'S DEFIANCE
VII. ST. PANCRAS PRIORY
VIII. RALPH'S RETURN
IX. RALPH'S WELCOME PART II THE FALL OF LEWES. I. INTERNAL DISSENSION
II. SACERDOS IN AETERNUM
III. THE NORTHERN RISING
IV. THE DESTRUCTION OF THE SEAL
V. THE SINKING SHIP
VI. THE LAST STAND
VII. AXES AND HAMMERS
BOOK III. THE KING'S GRATITUDE. I. A SCHEME
II. A DUEL
III. A PEACE MAKER
IV. THE ELDER SON
V. THE MUMMERS
VI. A CATASTROPHE
VII. A QUESTION OF LOYALTY
VIII. TO CHARING
IX. A RELIEF PARTY
X. PLACENTIA
XI. THE KING'S HIGHNESS
XII. THE TIDINGS AT THE TOWER
XIII. THE RELEASE
BENEFICO IGNOTO
HVNC LIBRVM
D.
THE KING'S ACHIEVEMENT CHAPTER I A DECISION
Overfield Court lay basking in warm June sunshine. The western side of
the great house with its new timber and plaster faced the evening sun
across the square lawns and high terrace; and the woods a couple of
hundred yards away cast long shadows over the gardens that lay beyond
the moat. The lawns, in their broad plateaux on the eastern side
descended by steps, in cool shadow to the lake that formed a
quarter circle below the south eastern angle of the house; and the
mirrored trees and reeds on the other side were broken, circle after
circle, by the great trout that were rising for their evening meal. The
tall front of the house on the north, formed by the hall in the centre
with the kitchen at its eastern end and the master's chamber on the
western, was faced by a square towered gatehouse through which the
straight drive leading into the main road approached the house under a
lime avenue; and on the south side the ground fell away again rapidly
below the chapel and the morning room, in copse and garden and wild
meadow bright with buttercups and ox eye daisies, down to the lake again
and the moat that ran out of it round the entire domain. The cobbled courtyard in the centre of the house, where the tall leaded
pump stood, was full of movement. Half a dozen trunks lay there that
had just been carried in from the luggage horses that were now being led
away with patient hanging heads towards the stables that stood outside
the gatehouse on the right, and three or four dusty men in livery were
talking to the house servants who had come out of their quarters on the
left. From the kitchen corner came a clamour of tongues and dishes, and
smoke was rising steadily from the huge outside chimney that rose beyond
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