The King's Men A Tale of To-morrow By: Robert Grant (1852-1940)
First Page: Note: The other authors to whom this work is attributed are John Boyle O'Reilly, J. S. Dale, and John T. Wheelwright. THE KING'S MEN A Tale of To Morrow ROBERT GRANT, ET AL. Copyright, 1884, by Robert Grant. CONTENTS. CHAPTER PAGE I. RIPON HOUSE, 1 II. RICHARD LINCOLN, 8 III. MY LADY'S CHAMBER, 19 IV. JARLEY JAWKINS, 32 V. "JAWKIN'S JOLLITIES," 46 VI. THE ROYALISTS, 67 VII. A FOUR IN HAND AND ONE IN THE BUSH, 85 VIII. SPRETÆ INJURIA FORMÆ, 97 IX. "THE COURSE OF TRUE LOVE," 110 X. KING GEORGE THE FIFTH, 124 XI. THE RAISING OF THE FLAG, 147 XII. IN THE LION'S MOUTH, 161 XIII. AN UNFINISHED TASK, 174 XIV. THE LAST ROYALIST, 180 XV. LOVE LAUGHS AT LOCKSMITHS, 193 XVI. MRS. CAREY'S HUSBAND, 215 XVII. AT THE COURT OF ST. JAMES, 225 XVIII. TWO CARDS PLAYED, 243 XIX. A WOMAN'S END, 252 XX. "FROM CHAIN TO CHAIN," 258 XXI. NULLA VESTIGA RETRORSUM, 265 THE KING'S MEN. CHAPTER I. RIPON HOUSE. There are few Americans who went to England before the late wars but will remember Ripon House. The curious student of history a study, perhaps, too little in vogue with us could find no better example of the palace of an old feudal lord. Dating almost from the time of the first George and some even say it was built by the same Wren who designed that St. Paul's Cathedral whose ruins we may still see to the east of London it frowned upon the miles of private park surrounding it, a marble memorial of feudal monopoly and man's selfish greed. The very land about it, to an extent of almost half a county, was owned by the owners of the castle, and by them rented out upon an annual payment to such farmers as they chose to favor with a chance to earn their bread. In an ancient room of a still older house which stands some two miles from the castle, and had formerly been merely the gatekeeper's lodge (though large enough for several families), a young man was sitting, one late afternoon in early November. The room was warmed by a fire, in the old fashion; and the young man was gloomily plunging the poker into the coals, breaking them into oily flakes which sent out fierce flickerings as they burned away. He was dressed in a rough shooting suit of blue velveteen, and his heavy American shoes were crusted with mud. His handsome, boyish face wore an expression of deep anxiety; and his hands seemed to minister to the troubles of his meditation by tumbling his hair about the contracted forehead, while his lips closed about a short brier wood pipe of a kind only used by men. The pipe had gone out, unnoticed by the smoker; and he did not seem to mind the fierce heat thrown out by the broken coals. Above the mantel was the portrait of a gentleman in the quaint costume of the latter Victorian age; the absurd starched collar and shirt, the insignificant cravat, the trousers reaching to the ankles, and the coat and waistcoat of black cloth and fantastic cut, familiar to the readers of the London Punch . This antedated worthy looked out from the canvas upon the room as if he owned it; and the mullioned windows and carved oak wainscoting justified his claim, even to the very books in the bookcases, which showed an antiquarian taste. Here were the strange old fashioned satires of Thackeray and the more modern romances of the humorist Dickens; the crude speculations of the philosopher Spencer, and the one sided, aristocratic economies of Malthus and Mill; with the feeble rhymes of Lord Tennyson d'Eyncourt, which men, in a time serving age, called poetry... Continue reading book >>

The King's Men A Tale of To-morrow By: Robert Grant (1852-1940)

First Page:

Note: The other authors to whom this work is attributed are John Boyle O'Reilly, J. S. Dale, and John T. Wheelwright.

THE KING'S MEN

A Tale of To Morrow

ROBERT GRANT, ET AL.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER PAGE I. RIPON HOUSE, 1

II. RICHARD LINCOLN, 8

III. MY LADY'S CHAMBER, 19

IV. JARLEY JAWKINS, 32

V. "JAWKIN'S JOLLITIES," 46

VI. THE ROYALISTS, 67

VII. A FOUR IN HAND AND ONE IN THE BUSH, 85

VIII. SPRETÆ INJURIA FORMÆ, 97

IX. "THE COURSE OF TRUE LOVE," 110

X. KING GEORGE THE FIFTH, 124

XI. THE RAISING OF THE FLAG, 147

XII. IN THE LION'S MOUTH, 161

XIII. AN UNFINISHED TASK, 174

XIV. THE LAST ROYALIST, 180

XV. LOVE LAUGHS AT LOCKSMITHS, 193

XVI. MRS. CAREY'S HUSBAND, 215

XVII. AT THE COURT OF ST. JAMES, 225

XVIII. TWO CARDS PLAYED, 243

XIX. A WOMAN'S END, 252

XX. "FROM CHAIN TO CHAIN," 258

XXI. NULLA VESTIGA RETRORSUM, 265

THE KING'S MEN.

CHAPTER I.

RIPON HOUSE.

There are few Americans who went to England before the late wars but will remember Ripon House. The curious student of history a study, perhaps, too little in vogue with us could find no better example of the palace of an old feudal lord. Dating almost from the time of the first George and some even say it was built by the same Wren who designed that St. Paul's Cathedral whose ruins we may still see to the east of London it frowned upon the miles of private park surrounding it, a marble memorial of feudal monopoly and man's selfish greed. The very land about it, to an extent of almost half a county, was owned by the owners of the castle, and by them rented out upon an annual payment to such farmers as they chose to favor with a chance to earn their bread.

In an ancient room of a still older house which stands some two miles from the castle, and had formerly been merely the gatekeeper's lodge (though large enough for several families), a young man was sitting, one late afternoon in early November. The room was warmed by a fire, in the old fashion; and the young man was gloomily plunging the poker into the coals, breaking them into oily flakes which sent out fierce flickerings as they burned away. He was dressed in a rough shooting suit of blue velveteen, and his heavy American shoes were crusted with mud. His handsome, boyish face wore an expression of deep anxiety; and his hands seemed to minister to the troubles of his meditation by tumbling his hair about the contracted forehead, while his lips closed about a short brier wood pipe of a kind only used by men. The pipe had gone out, unnoticed by the smoker; and he did not seem to mind the fierce heat thrown out by the broken coals. Above the mantel was the portrait of a gentleman in the quaint costume of the latter Victorian age; the absurd starched collar and shirt, the insignificant cravat, the trousers reaching to the ankles, and the coat and waistcoat of black cloth and fantastic cut, familiar to the readers of the London Punch . This antedated worthy looked out from the canvas upon the room as if he owned it; and the mullioned windows and carved oak wainscoting justified his claim, even to the very books in the bookcases, which showed an antiquarian taste. Here were the strange old fashioned satires of Thackeray and the more modern romances of the humorist Dickens; the crude speculations of the philosopher Spencer, and the one sided, aristocratic economies of Malthus and Mill; with the feeble rhymes of Lord Tennyson d'Eyncourt, which men, in a time serving age, called poetry... Continue reading book >>

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