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Miriam, the Avenger; Or, the Missing Bride
Miriam the Avenger Or the Missing Bride Author:Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1874 Original Publisher: T.B. Peterson and Brothers Subjects: American fiction Fiction / General Fiction / Anthologies Fiction / Literary Fiction / Romance / General Literary Criticism / General Literary Criticism / American / General Literary Criticism / Wom... more »en Authors Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER IV. TOUNO AMERICA IN 1814. " And in they burat! and on they rnihed I While like a guiding star, Amid the thickest carnage blazed The helmet of Navarre." -- Battle of Jvry. -YouNG students of C Academy -- mere boys of from thirteen to eighteen years of age, but brave, spirited, vigorous lads, well mounted, well armed, and led on by the redoubtable college hero, Cloudesley Mornington. They rushed forward, they surrounded, they fell upon the marauders with an absolute shower of blows. " Give it to them, men 1 Tlds for Fanny I This for Edith! And this! and this! and this for both of them!" shouted Clondesley, as he vigorously laid about him. " Strike for Hay Hill and vengeance ! Let them have it, my men 1 And you, little fellows! small young gentlemen, with the souls of heroes, and the bodies of elves, who can't strike a very hard blow, aim where your blows will tell I aim at their faces. Tlds for Fanny I Thit for Edith!" shouted Cloudesley, raining his strokes right and left, bat never at random. He fought his way through to the miscreant Thorg. Thorg was still on foot, armed with a sword, and laying about him savagely among the crowd of foes that had surrounded him. Cloudesley was still on horseback -- he had caught up an axe that lay carelessly upon the lawn, and now he rushed upon Thorg from behind. He had no scr...« less