Joscelyn Cheshire

✍ Scribed by Beaumont, Sara; Kennedy, Cannon

• Book ID: 108880707
• Publisher: Cornell University Library
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 774 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

e threw the door wide open and, with one foot advanced and his weight on the other hip, stood at pose with uplifted arm and sword; as gallant a figure as ever melted a maiden�s heart or stormed a foeman�s citadel. There was great suggestion of power in the straight limbs, a marvellous promise of strength in the upward sweep of the arm, which, for a moment, held the inmates of the room in silence of admiration. Then an avalanche of exclamations broke loose.

�Richard, Richard!�

�Master Clevering!�

�A health to the young Continental!�

�Oh, the new uniform, how bravely it doth become him!�

�The buff and blue forever!�

�What an air the coat gives him.�

�And the breeches have never a wrinkle in them. I have ever said, my son, that you were�[Pg 2]not over fair of feature, but that the Lord made it up to you in the shape o� your legs.� The last speaker was his mother, who, passing behind him, ran her fingers caressingly along the seams of his military outfit.