BRACEBRIDGE HALL (Illustrated Edition). Вашингтон Ирвинг

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      Bracebridge Hall (Illustrated Edition)

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      2017 OK Publishing

      ISBN 978-80-272-0252-2

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       PREFACE

       THE HALL

       THE BUSY MAN

       FAMILY SERVANTS

       THE WIDOW

       THE LOVERS

       FAMILY RELIQUES

       AN OLD SOLDIER

       THE WIDOW’S RETINUE

       READY-MONEY JACK

       BACHELORS

       A LITERARY ANTIQUARY

       THE FARMHOUSE

       HORSEMANSHIP

       LOVE SYMPTOMS

       FALCONRY

       HAWKING

       FORTUNE-TELLING

       LOVE-CHARMS

       A BACHELOR’S CONFESSIONS

       GIPSIES

       VILLAGE WORTHIES

       THE SCHOOLMASTER

       THE SCHOOL

       A VILLAGE POLITICIAN

       THE ROOKERY

       MAY-DAY

       THE CULPRIT

       LOVERS’ TROUBLES

       THE WEDDING

       THE STOUT GENTLEMAN

       THE STUDENT OF SALAMANCA

       ANNETTE DELARBRE

       DOLPH HEYLIGER

      "The chivalry of the Hall prepared to take the Field."—Frontispiece.

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      The success of “OLD CHRISTMAS” has suggested the republication of its sequel “BRACEBRIDGE HALL,” illustrated by the same able pencil, but condensed so as to bring it within reasonable size and price.

      THE HALL.

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      The ancientest house, and the best for housekeeping in this county or the next, and though the master of it write but squire, I know no lord like him.

      MERRY BEGGARS.

      The reader, if he has perused the volumes of the Sketch Book, will probably recollect something of the Bracebridge family, with which I once passed a Christmas. I am now on another visit at the Hall, having been invited to a wedding which is shortly to take place. The squire’s second son, Guy, a fine, spirited young captain in the army, is about to be married to his father’s ward, the fair Julia Templeton. A gathering of relations and friends has already commenced, to celebrate the joyful occasion; for the old gentleman is an enemy to quiet, private weddings. “There is nothing,” he says, “like launching a young couple gaily, and cheering them from the shore; a good outset is half the voyage.”

      Before proceeding any farther, I would beg that the squire might not be confounded with that class of hard-riding, fox-hunting gentlemen so often described, and, in fact, so nearly extinct in England. I use this rural title, partly because it is his universal appellation throughout the neighbourhood, and partly because it saves me the frequent repetition of his name, which is one of those rough old English names at which Frenchmen exclaim in despair.

      The squire is, in fact, a lingering specimen of the old English country gentleman; rusticated a little by living almost entirely on his estate, and something of a humourist, as Englishmen are apt to become when they have an opportunity of living in their own way.