{"product_id":"2940013225404","title":"HAYSLOPE GRANGE","description":"CONTENTS.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     CHAPTER I. THE DRURY FAMILY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    CHAPTER II. HARRY'S ANNOUNCEMENT\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   CHAPTER III. TRAITOR OR HERO\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    CHAPTER IV. CROMWELL'S IRONSIDES\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     CHAPTER V. MAUD HARCOURT\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    CHAPTER VI. THE HAYSLOPE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   CHAPTER VII. THE REVEL\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  CHAPTER VIII. BESSIE'S DISTRESS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    CHAPTER IX. THE WOUNDED MESSENGER\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     CHAPTER X. \"ON, CAVALIER, ON!\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    CHAPTER XI. MYSTERIES\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   CHAPTER XII. HARRY'S RETURN\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE DRURY FAMILY.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt was a sweet spring day, soft and balmy as summer, and any one looking\u003cbr\u003eacross the green meadows and smiling uplands of Hayslope, now so full of\u003cbr\u003ethe promise of early fruitfulness, would have wondered what could make\u003cbr\u003ethe farm-labourers appear so gloomy, and the women-folk sigh instead of\u003cbr\u003esinging at their work, if he knew nothing of what was going on a few\u003cbr\u003emiles away.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt was the year 1644, and for two long years civil war had been raging\u003cbr\u003ein England, and now two rival Parliaments were sitting, the one presided\u003cbr\u003eover by the King meeting at Oxford, while that in London was engaged\u003cbr\u003eupon the trial of Archbishop Laud, and levying war against the King, so\u003cbr\u003ethat it was not to be wondered at that men looked gloomy and sorrowful,\u003cbr\u003efor they were dark, sad times for everybody.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHayslope was a little village on the borders of Essex, but quite out of\u003cbr\u003ethe high road usually taken by travellers going from London northward,\u003cbr\u003eso that when a young man came riding in towards the middle of the day,\u003cbr\u003eeverybody turned from their work to look at him. They did not make a\u003cbr\u003every close inspection before they raised their hats and cheered; but\u003cbr\u003ethis greeting, pleasant as it was, scarcely brought a smile to his lips\u003cbr\u003eas he rode on up to the principal house in the place--Hayslope Grange.\u003cbr\u003eThis was a large, rambling, roomy building, half farm-house, half\u003cbr\u003emansion, standing in the midst of an old-fashioned garden, surrounded by\u003cbr\u003efields, and enclosed with a moat. The moat was dry now, and had been for\u003cbr\u003esome years, and a permanent bridge of planks had been laid across,\u003cbr\u003eleading to the village; Master Drury would not have it filled up. \"It\u003cbr\u003emight be useful yet,\" he would say, when his son Harry pressed him to\u003cbr\u003emake the alteration.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47082458480880,"sku":"2940013225404","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013225404_p0.jpg?v=1763578220","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013225404","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}