Where England Sets Her Feet, A Romance
By Bernard Capes
Length10h 51m
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Excerpt: "When, in the second year of Elizabeth, the Act of Supremacy was passed, there were found only some two hundred in all of the clergy bold enough to dissent from it. Many, it is true, who conformed, did so without sincerity, fearing to lose their livings, and of these was Mr Robert Angell, Vicar of Clapham, or Clappenham village in Surrey, which was in the advowson of the lords of Larkhall and a very good cure. This Mr Angell, a worthy but weak divine, gained nothing, however, by his accommodation, for being suspected, whether rightly or wrongly, of Romanist sympathies, he was shortly deprived of his benefice, and forced to look elsewhere than to the Establishment for a means to subsistence. In this pass he bethought himself to set up a little private school, or palestra, for the sons of such of his neighbours as were well disposed towards him; and this he did, and with fair success, many coming to receive of him their early grounding in the A.B.C.-darius, Lily's grammar, the Sententiæ Pueriles, and so on by way of Erasmus's Colloquies to Cæsar and the Georgics, so that they were well ripe for College and University when their time came. For the Vicar was a sound scholar no less than an amiable man, and ruled by love without much authority, being little addicted to the harsh methods which obtained, and indeed were expected, in his day. He had a dame, a stupid woman but as benevolent as himself, and two or three little children, who tumbled up anyhow and were for ever in hot water, save when they most needed it."
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GenreHistorical Fiction, General Fiction
Length10 hrs 51 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateFeb 9, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1CHAPTER I. THE PRETTY PLEDGE
2CHAPTER II. THE PLEDGE REDEEMED
3CHAPTER III. THE JOURNEY WEST
4CHAPTER IV. THE END OF THE JOURNEY
5CHAPTER V. THE HOUSE BY THE MOOR
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6CHAPTER VI. SOME NEW FRIENDS
7CHAPTER VII. THE OLD WELL HOUSE
8CHAPTER VIII. THE APPARITION
9CHAPTER IX. TRANSFORMATION
10CHAPTER X. CONFIDENCES
11CHAPTER XI. TWO’S COMPANY
12CHAPTER XII. IL PENSEROSO
13CHAPTER XIII. DESOLATION
14CHAPTER XIV. AN EMOTION AND A DISCOVERY
15CHAPTER XV. THE RETURN OF THE WANDERERS
16CHAPTER XVI. THE TRUTH AT LAST
17CHAPTER XVII. CERTAIN VISITORS
18CHAPTER XVIII. HOPE DEFERRED
19CHAPTER XIX. MARKING TIME
20CHAPTER XX. MISTRESS JOAN MEDLEY
21CHAPTER XXI. THE DECOY
22CHAPTER XXII. A POIGNANT INTERVIEW
23CHAPTER XXIII. HOME AGAIN
24CHAPTER XXIV. COMMITTED
25CHAPTER XXV. THE FUGITIVE
26CHAPTER XXVI. AN INCUBUS
27CHAPTER XXVII. THE VOYAGE
28CHAPTER XXVIII. THE TAKING OF THE CARACK
29CHAPTER XXIX. THE VIPER ON THE HEARTH
30CHAPTER XXX. L’ALLEGRO
31CHAPTER XXXI. ‘BACK TO A WORLD OF DEATH’
32CHAPTER XXXII. RETRIBUTION
33CHAPTER XXXIII. BEREAVEMENT
34CHAPTER XXXIV. A LAST DISCOVERY
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