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Mary Anerley: A Yorkshire Tale

Mary Anerley: A Yorkshire Tale

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Chapter 1 HEADSTRONG AND HEADLONG

Word Count: 1155    |    Released on: 01/12/2017

cause a large party of farmers, riding homeward from Middleton, banded together and perhaps well primed through fear of a famous highwayman, came down to this place on a foggy

m, all large farmers, and thoroughly understanding land, came never upon it alive again; and their bodies, being

their families hard to provide for, Richard Yordas, of Scargate Hall, the chief owner of the neighborhood, set a long heavy stone up on either brink, and stretched a strong chain between them, not only to mark out the course of the shallow, wh

pse Ford," worse than the drowning of the farmers. Or, at any rate, it made more stir (which is of wider spread than sorrow), because of the eminence of the man, and the length and width of his prop

or-land, only the usual course of time, keeping the silent company of stars. The young moon was down, and the hover of

ty years of arrogant port had stiffened a neck too stiff at birth. Even now in the dim light his large square form stood out against the sky like a cromlech, and his he

he flints beneath his horse; "you have had your own way, have you, then? But never shall you ste

n struck the bosom of his heavy Bradford riding-coat, and the crackle of parchment replied t

e with the vapor of the valley, but Philip Yordas in the

ents-"fool! what fear you? There hangs my respected father's chain. Ah, he was some

ater, as he panted and snorted against it; and if Philip Yordas had drawn back at once, he might even now have crossed safely. But the fury of his blood was up, the stronger the torrent th

at I was never born to drown. My own water drow

ad, but swept him a wallowing lump away, and over the reef of the crossing. With both feet locked in the twisted stirrups, and right arm broken at the elbow, the rider was swung (like the mast of a wreck) and flung with his head upon his father's chain. There he was held by his great square chin-for the jar of his backbone stunned him-and the weight of the swept-away horse broke the neck

nothing to their will-as long as the latter lasted-and that ever

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1 Chapter 1 HEADSTRONG AND HEADLONG2 Chapter 2 SCARGATE HALL3 Chapter 3 A DISAPPOINTING APPOINTMENT4 Chapter 4 DISQUIETUDE5 Chapter 5 DECISION6 Chapter 6 ANERLEY FARM7 Chapter 7 A DANE IN THE DIKE8 Chapter 8 CAPTAIN CARROWAY9 Chapter 9 ROBIN COCKSCROFT10 Chapter 10 ROBIN LYTH11 Chapter 11 DR. UPANDOWN12 Chapter 12 IN A LANE, NOT ALONE13 Chapter 13 GRUMBLING AND GROWLING14 Chapter 14 SERIOUS CHARGES15 Chapter 15 CAUGHT AT LAST16 Chapter 16 DISCIPLINE ASSERTED17 Chapter 17 DELICATE INQUIRIES18 Chapter 18 GOYLE BAY19 Chapter 19 A FARM TO LET20 Chapter 20 AN OLD SOLDIER21 Chapter 21 JACK AND JILL GO DOWN THE GILL22 Chapter 22 YOUNG GILLY FLOWERS23 Chapter 23 LOVE MILITANT24 Chapter 24 LOVE PENITENT25 Chapter 25 DOWN AMONG THE DEAD WEEDS26 Chapter 26 MEN OF SOLID TIMBER27 Chapter 27 THE PROPER WAY TO ARGUE28 Chapter 28 FAREWELL, WIFE AND CHILDREN DEAR29 Chapter 29 TACTICS OF DEFENSE30 Chapter 30 INLAND OPINION31 Chapter 31 TACTICS OF ATTACK32 Chapter 32 CORDIAL ENJOYMENT33 Chapter 33 BEARDED IN HIS DEN34 Chapter 34 THE DOVECOTE35 Chapter 35 LITTLE CARROWAYS36 Chapter 36 MAIDS AND MERMAIDS37 Chapter 37 FACT, OR FACTOR38 Chapter 38 THE DEMON OF THE AXE39 Chapter 39 BATTERY AND ASSUMPSIT40 Chapter 40 STORMY GAP41 Chapter 41 BAT OF THE GILL42 Chapter 42 A CLEW OF BUTTONS43 Chapter 43 A PLEASANT INTERVIEW44 Chapter 44 THE WAY OF THE WORLD45 Chapter 45 THE THING IS JUST46 Chapter 46 STUMPED OUT47 Chapter 47 A TANGLE OF VEINS48 Chapter 48 SHORT SIGHS, AND LONG ONES49 Chapter 49 A BOLD ANGLER50 Chapter 50 PRINCELY TREATMENT51 Chapter 51 STAND AND DELIVER52 Chapter 52 THE SCARFE53 Chapter 53 BUTS REBUTTED54 Chapter 54 TRUE LOVE55 Chapter 55 NICHOLAS THE FISH56 Chapter 56 IN THE THICK OF IT57 Chapter 57 MARY LYTH