The Castle Inn (Classic Reprint): Illustrated by Walter Appleton Clark (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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( TI-IE CASTLE INN CHAPTER I A K~[OIl·r-m.,nANT ", AnOUT n hund red and thirty years ago, when the third George, whom. onr grandfa.thers knew in hiF.l blind dotage, was a young n.nd sturdy bridcgroo'rn; when old Q., whom 1810 found peering from his balcony in Piccadil1y, deaf, toothless, and a skeleton, was that gny and lively spark, the Earl of :Uarcl1; when bore and bo'rei.slt were 'words of lW'ut ton, unknown to the vulgar, and the price of a borough was 5,0001.; whou gibbets still sen'ed for sign-posts, n.nd railways were not and high waymen were-to be more exact, in the early spring of the year 1767, a trayclliug chariot-and-four drcw up about five in the evening before th c inn at Wheatley n ridgc, II short stage from Oxford on tho Oxford l'oad. A gig and a coul,le of post-chaises, attended by the' customary group of stablemeu, toperR, and gossips already stood before the house, but these were qujckly deserted in favour 01 the more important equipage.


Table of Contents

OONTENTS; CHAPTER PAGE; I A KNIGHT-ERRANT 1; II A MISADVENTURE 12; III TUTOR AND PUPILS-OLD STYLE 19; IV PEEPING TOM OF WALLINGFORD 32; V THE MEETING 41; VI A FISH OUT OF WATER 51; VII ACHILLES AND BRISEI~ 62; VIII THE OLD BATH ROAD 74; IX ST GEORGE AND THE DRAGON 88; X ]fOTHER AND SON 98 -; XI DR ADDINGTON · 104; XII JULIA · 115; XIII A SPOILED CIIILD 125; XIV A GOOD MAN'S DILElIMA 136; XV AMORIS INTEG RATIO · 144; XVI THE BLACK FAN 154; XVII 1IR FISH WICK, THE ARBITER 162; XVIII THE PURSUIT 169; c 0 V 1'1;;Y 1'8; ( 11l'TU:; XX, Till: E~II'TY P()~T-CII:T~I':; XXI [~ TIll: ('AI:IU(;I';; XX[II Bn,LY l'U~!I:IWY; XXI ', C[,TTI~U FOR 'IIIE QCEl:~; XX", LOIn> ~Lm:l{lc'::i SIT!'; x X '1 Boox ('mIPxwxs; XX"[1 :11{, FI:'lIWIt'K'S I>ISCOYEHY; XX'J[I ~ HOL'GII AWAKEXIXG; XXX I Till: h'x ,T lI!Il'I'l:~IIDI; XXXII ('IIA('I': :1l:IlLEY ,

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