Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Author:Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Grandparent and child -- Fiction, Great Britain -- History -- Stuarts, 1603-1714 -- Fiction
Published: 2005-12-01T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter XXII. Of the News from Havant

Having given my orders that Covenant should be saddled and bridled by daybreak, I had gone to my room and was preparing for a long night's rest, when Sir Gervas, who slept in the same apartment, came dancing in with a bundle of papers waving over his head.

'Three guesses, Clarke!' he cried. 'What would you most desire?'

'Letters from Havant,' said I eagerly.

'Right,' he answered, throwing them into my lap. 'Three of them, and not a woman's hand among them. Sink me, if I can understand what you have been doing all your life.

"How can youthful heart resign

Lovely woman, sparkling wine?"

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