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Title: The Nest of the Sparrowhawk

Author: Baroness Orczy

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THE NEST OF THE SPARROWHAWK

_A ROMANCE OF THE XVIIth CENTURY_

BY THE BARONESS ORCZY

_November, 1909_

CONTENTS

PART I

CHAPTER
I. THE HOUSE OF A KENTISH SQUIRE
II. ON A JULY AFTERNOON
III. THE EXILE
IV. GRINDING POVERTY
V. THE LEGAL ASPECT
VI. UNDER THE SHADOW OF THE ELMS
VII. THE STRANGER WITHIN THE GATES
VIII. PRINCE AMEDE D'ORLEANS
IX. SECRET SERVICE
X. AVOWED ENMITY
XI. SURRENDER
XII. A WOMAN'S HEART
XIII. AN IDEA

PART II
XIV. THE HOUSE IN LONDON
XV. A GAME OF PRIMERO
XVI. A CONFLICT
XVII. RUS IN URBE
XVIII. THE TRAP
XIX. DISGRACE
XX. MY LORD PROTECTOR'S PATROL

PART III
XXI. IN THE MEANWHILE
XXII. BREAKING THE NEWS
XXIII. THE ABSENT FRIEND
XXIV. NOVEMBER THE 2D
XXV. AN INTERLUDE
XXVI. THE OUTCAST
XXVII. LADY SUE'S FORTUNE
XXVIII. HUSBAND AND WIFE
XXIX. GOOD-BYE
XXX. ALL BECAUSE OF THE TINDER-BOX
XXXI. THE ASSIGNATION
XXXII. THE PATH NEAR THE CLIFFS

PART IV
XXXIII. THE DAY AFTER
XXXIV. AFTERWARDS
XXXV. THE SMITH'S FORGE
XXXVI. THE GIRL-WIFE
XXXVII. THE OLD WOMAN
XXXVIII. THE VOICE OF THE DEAD
XXXIX. THE HOME-COMING OF ADAM LAMBERT
XL. EDITHA'S RETURN
XLI. THEIR NAME
XLII. THE RETURN
XLIII. THE SANDS OF EPPLE
XLIV. THE EPILOGUE

PART I

The Nest of the Sparrowhawk

CHAPTER I

THE HOUSE OF A KENTISH SQUIRE

Master Hymn-of-Praise Busy folded his hands before him ere he spoke:

"Nay! but I tell thee, woman, that the Lord hath no love for such
frivolities! and alack! but 'tis a sign of the times that an English
Squire should favor such evil ways."

"Evil ways? The Lord love you, Master Hymn-of-Praise, and pray do you
call half an