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Title: The Squire of Sandal-Side
A Pastoral Romance

Author: Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr

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Language: English

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THE SQUIRE OF SANDAL-SIDE

A Pastoral Romance

by

AMELIA E. BARR

Author of "Jan Vedder's Wife," "A Daughter of Fife,"
"The Bow of Orange Ribbon," etc.

New York
The A.D. Porter Co.
Publishers

1886

CONTENTS.

I. SEAT-SANDAL

II. THE SHEEP-SHEARING

III. JULIUS SANDAL

IV. THUS RUNS THE WORLD AWAY

V. CHARLOTTE

VI. THE DAY BEFORE CHRISTMAS

VII. WOOING AND WEDDING

VIII. THE ENEMY IN THE HOUSEHOLD

IX. ESAU

X. THE NEW SQUIRE

XI. SANDAL AND SANDAL

CHAPTER I.

SEAT-SANDAL.

"This happy breed of men, this little world."

"To know
That which before us lies in daily life
Is the prime wisdom."

"All that are lovers of virtue ... be quiet, and go a-angling."

There is a mountain called Seat-Sandal, between the Dunmail Raise and
Grisedale Pass; and those who have stood upon its summit know that
Grasmere vale and lake lie at their feet, and that Windermere,
Esthwaite, and Coniston, with many arms of the sea, and a grand
brotherhood of mountains, are all around them. There is also an old gray
manor-house of the same name. It is some miles distant from the foot of
the mountain, snugly sheltered in one of the loveliest valleys between
Coniston and Torver. No one knows when the first stones of this house
were laid. The Sandals were in Sandal-Side when the white-handed,
waxen-faced Edward was building Westminster Abbey, and William the
Norman was laying plans for the crown of England. Probably they came
with those Norsemen who a century earlier made the Isle of Man their
headquarters, and from