[Gutenberg 13404] • Tom Tufton's Travels
- Authors
- Everett-Green, Evelyn
- Publisher
- Thomas Nelson and Sons
- Tags
- historical fiction , brigands and robbers -- juvenile fiction , great britain -- history -- anne , adventure stories , 1702-1714 -- juvenile fiction
- Date
- 1898-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.18 MB
- Lang
- en
Good Squire Tufton of Gablehurst lay dying. He had been ailing for many months, knowing his end to be near; and yet, as is so often the case in lingering declines, death was long in coming, so that those about him had grown used to the sight of the strong figure wasted to a shadow, and the face shadowed by the wings of the hovering messenger.