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Si douce est la Marguerite.—CHAUCER. "Miss Winter, are you busy? Do you want this afternoon? Can you take a good long walk?" "Ethel, my dear, how often have I told you of your impetuosity—you have forgotten." "Very well"—with an impatient twist—"I beg your pardon. Good-morning, Miss Winter," said a thin, lank, angular, sallow girl, just fifteen, trembling from head to foot with restrained eagerness, as she tried to curb her tone into the requisite civility. "Good-morning, Ethel, good-morning, Flora," said the prim, middle-aged daily governess, taking off her bonnet, and arranging the stiff little rolls of curl at the long, narrow looking-glass, the border of which distorted the countenance. "Good-morning," properly responded Flora, a pretty, fair girl, nearly two years older than her sister. "Will you—" began to burst from Etheldred's lips again, but was stifled by Miss Winter's inquiry, "Is your mamma pretty well to-day?" "Oh! very well," said both at once; "she is coming to the reading." And Flora added, "Papa is going to drive her out to-day." "I am very glad. And the baby?" "I do believe she does it on purpose!" whispered Ethel to herself, wriggling fearfully on the wide window-seat on which she had precipitated herself, and kicking at the bar of the table, by which manifestation she of course succeeded in deferring her hopes, by a reproof which caused her to draw herself into a rigid, melancholy attitude, a sort of penance of decorum, but a rapid motion of the eyelids, a tendency to crack the joints of the fingers, and an unquietness at the ends of her shoes, betraying the restlessness of the digits therein contained.

Jason in quest of the golden fleece, and when the marriage of his daughter, A lcestis, was in question, he tried to get rid of her suitors by making it a condition that the successful suitor should be able to yoke and drive together a wild boar and a lion. A dmetus, King of Pherae, a town or district in Thessaly to the west of lolcos, succeeded, thanks to a little timely help from A pollo, who owed the king a debt of gratitude. lo Admetus married A lcestis, but he foolishly omitted to offer a sacrifice to the goddess A rtemis, and was in consequence condemned to die. Alcestis thereupon offered herself as a willing sacrifice in his stead, rather than that the state should be deprived of its ruler. The most touching scene in Euripides tragedy is where A lcestis, full of the desire to live, yet moved by a splendid patriotism and a high sense of duty, takes her last look at the glorious sun and prepares for death. The weakness of the story lies in Admetus willing 20 concession that his wife should make so unparalleled a self-sacrifice on his behalf, but the age of chivalry did not begin till after the power of Christianity had raised the status of woman to a higher level. In another of his plays Euripides tells us that As far as life goes, one man is worth 10,000 women. The story does not end in gloom, and therefore is not in the strictest sense a tragedy (see Glossary), for Heracles rescued the dead Alcestis from the grasp of death and restored her to A dmetus. 30 Euripides, the Athenian poet who dramatised the beautiful story of A lcestis, was born B.C. 480, the year of the battle of Salamis. It was an age of literary glory for Greece, for it produced not only Euripides, but also Aeschylus and Sophocles, two of the greatest play-writers the world has ever known, and Socrates, one of its greatest philosophers or wise thinkers.(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)About the Publisher

This book is an illustrated version of the original Unknown to History, A Story of the Captivity of Mary of Scotland by Charlotte M. Yonge. “Susan Hardwicke was a distant kinswoman of the famous Bess of Hardwicke, and had formed one of the little court of gentlewomen with whom great ladies were wont to surround themselves. There she met Richard Talbot, the second son of a relative of the Earl of Shrewsbury, a young man who, with the indifference of those days to service by land or sea, had been at one time a gentleman pensioner of Queen Mary; at another had sailed under some of the great mariners of the western main. There he had acquired substance enough to make the offer of his hand to the dowerless Susan no great imprudence; and as neither could be a subject for ambitious plans, no obstacle was raised to their wedding.”

The Little Duke - Richard The Fearless - Charlotte Mary Yonge - Richard I (28 August 933 – 20 November 996), also known as Richard the Fearless (French, Richard Sans-Peur), was the Count of Rouen from 942 to 996. Dudo of Saint-Quentin, whom Richard commissioned to write the "De moribus et actis primorum Normanniae ducum" (Latin, "On the Customs and Deeds of the First Dukes of Normandy"), called him a Dux. However, this use of the word may have been in the context of Richard's renowned leadership in war, and not as a reference to a title of nobility. Richard either introduced feudalism into Normandy or he greatly expanded it. By the end of his reign, most important Norman landholders held their lands in feudal tenure.

Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. Unknown To History, hardcover, New Edition. Very good clean tight sound square with NO bookplate inscriptions or marks of any kind, half-title page cracked to tail of hinge. Hennessy engraved frontispiece illustration with tissue-guard intact, title page vignette and 2 further plates in good order.In very good blind ruled blue cloth with bright gilt stamped vignette decoration of author's initials to upper board and bright gilt title to very gently rubbed spine, blind embossed publishers' stamped decoration to lower board, corners and edges crisp. A good price for a very good copy. Other Charlotte M. Yonge titles available.

A lucid introduction to ancient Roman history for children, covering the period from the founding of Rome to its terrifying fall at the hands of the Goths to its resurgence as a holy city under Pope Gregory. Richly illustrated to enhance the reader experience, Ancient Roman History for Children is the perfect introduction to the majesty that was Rome.