Chapter Nineteen: The Final Battle Part One "What's wrong father, aren't you happy to see me?" I asked him. "You've no idea how glad I am to see you; we all thought you were dead! How come your alive?!" father asked me. "I'll explain later father. I don't have time to explain everything, all you need to know for now is that I'm here with my army and wer...
Author/s note A quick reminder. Amanda and her friends, having just finished school, are, of course, eighteen years old. * Jim had plenty to do before the afternoon rush, he had, after all, been way from the stables all day and this meant that he was still dashing around trying to get things ready when the first girls arrived. After that it was the usual...
Shielding her eyes from the sun, she looks out over the side of the huge ship that has been her home for the last 6 weeks. Her family has decided not to stay in the new world, but to return to the country of their youth. She watches silently as the ship slowly drifts into port, the muscular dock workers scurrying to tie the ropes at the moorings. It was not...
At breakfast the next morning, John and I were finishing our oatmeal. I had done the morning chores, brought in the bucket of milk for Mary to filter. She was skimming the cream off of yesterday's milk getting ready to turn it into butter. John said he was going to work up in the North Meadow getting the field ready to plant corn and wanted me to weed the sp...
I started working as an apprentice on John Allen's farm in April and was eager to learn all I could from him about farming so that I would be able to start my own homestead in a few years. He set me up in the apprentice cabin on the other side of the field about a hundred yards from the house. It was a small cabin with a wood stove, a bed, a soft arm chair a...
Devonny had all but forgotten about Marie Baskett's insinuations and Cecile's gossip about Elijah Davenport's mulatto mistress until the day Gabriel called her into the parlor. Devonny, wiping her hands on her apron she entered the parlor, stopped dead in her tracks. "Oh good Lord," she gasped. Gabriel stood, hands on hips, surveying the room around him....
"Sir, there's no sign of her," the soldier reported, waiting for the general's nod of dismissal, scurrying off when it came. General Wrothing felt a growing agitation in the pit of his stomach. Every time they received a tip of where the Princess Harley was, they always arrived only a day or two too late, finding that she had already gone. "Listen up men,...
Arriving at her house, Daniel readied himself for the journey he would take. The large house on the edge of town sat a good acre away from prying eyes. Daniel wondered what would be required of him and felt some comfort in the fact that if his new mistress did take him outdoors, he would not have to deal with the prying eyes of neighbors. This would be the f...
Chapter Four Where the Lady Chelsea discovers that perhaps she wasn't quite so lady like after all. Chelsea awoke with a start. She was in a small room with bare walls which she did not recognise and for a moment, was completely startled at waking somewhere other than her usual bedroom. She was used to being woken by her maid very late in the morning, but...
Rosemarie felt a jolt of apprehension mixed with anticipation when she returned from shopping downtown and her mother told her that they would be having an informal dinner at the Collier's that evening. William Collier had just had a large stone outdoor cooking pit built in his back yard and wanted to try it out. Therefore the Thorntons had been invited to a...