A Tale of the New Forest.
BY
RICHARD DODDRIDGE BLACKMORE,
AUTHOR OF “CLARA VAUGHAN.”
“You have said: whether wisely or no, let the forest judge.”
As You Like It, Act III. Sc. 2.
IN THREE VOLUMES.
VOL. II.
LONDON:
CHAPMAN AND HALL, 193, PICCADILLY.
1866.
[The right of Translation is reserved.]
LONDON:
PRINTED BY C. WHITING, BEAUFORT HOUSE, STRAND.
| Chapter | Page |
| I. | 1 |
| II. | 35 |
| III. | 52 |
| IV. | 72 |
| V. | 91 |
| VI. | 111 |
| VII. | 128 |
| VIII. | 147 |
| IX. | 172 |
| X. | 190 |
| XI. | 217 |
| XII. | 236 |
| XIII. | 245 |
| XIV. | 253 |
| XV. | 274 |
| XVI. | 287 |
| XVII. | 300 |
CRADOCK NOWELL
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It was a Tuesday evening when Cradock Nowelland Amy Rosedew signed and sealed, with themoonʼs approval, their bond to one another. Onthe following day, Dr. Hutton and wife were todine at Kettledrum Hall; and the distance beingconsiderable, and the roads so shockingly bad—“evendangerous, I am told, to gentlemen whohave dined with me, sir,” said Kettledrum, in hisproudest manner—they had accepted his offer,and that of Mrs. Kettledrum, which she herselfcame over to make, that they should not think ofreturning until after breakfast on Thursday. Inconsequence of her husbandʼs hints, Rosa felt thekeenest interest in “that Mrs. Kettledrum. Leaveher to me, dear Rufus. You ne