Royal Georgie Author:Sabine Baring-Gould Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III SIR THOMAS EORGINA ran along the road, under a starry sky, in an air crisp with frost. She did not dread encountering anyone. The lane—it w... more »as that rather than road—was haunted by a black calf with goggle eyes that rose out of a grave in the churchyard, leaped the wall, and trotted along the way after any foot passenger. Georgina was not without superstitious fears, but in her excitement she gave at the moment no thought to the churchyard calf. As she ran on, the cool air on her brow soothed her, the stars shone so calmly that her anger abated. She desisted from running, and walked. A quarter of a mile from the Manor House was the cottage of Alse Grylls, towards which she had directed her steps. She saw a red glow through the rift, for the door was ajar, and the flicker through the tiny windows. But she did not enter at once; she walked past the cottage, turned, repassed it, and turned again. The tears were coursing down her cheeks. To the anger that had flamed in her heart, succeeded a sense of desolation. Was there ever a girl so lonely as herself, without father or mother, with no relatives save an uncle who, as he declared, was not her uncle, was naught but a guardian. Every plant had the fibres of its root spreading around it; she had no attachments. Every child had someone to whom it could turn as relative; she was without kindred. Who she was, whence she came, why she was placed with the Reverend Josiah she did not know. Insinuations, jokes, were bandied at her expense. These she heard without understanding them. She had no girl friends, never had companions. She had clung to her horse as nearer and dearer to her than any human being. Thoughts had tossed in her brain, feelings had boiled in her heart, and she had been unable to give th...« less