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RAVENSHOE
CHARLES IN THE BALACLAVA CHARGE.Drawn by R. Caton Woodville.
Ravenshoe. Page 355.
RAVENSHOE
BY
HENRY KINGSLEY
NEW EDITION—THIRD THOUSAND
WITH A FRONTISPIECE BY R. CATON WOODVILLE
LONDON
WARD, LOCK AND BOWDEN, LIMITED
WARWICK HOUSE, SALISBURY SQUARE, E.C.
NEW YORK AND MELBOURNE
1894
[All rights reserved]
To
MY BROTHER,
CHARLES KINGSLEY,
I DEDICATE THIS TALE,
IN TOKEN OF A LOVE WHICH ONLY GROWS STRONGER
AS WE BOTH GET OLDER.
PREFACE.
The language used in telling the following story is not (as I hope thereader will soon perceive) the Author's, but Mr. William Marston's.
The Author's intention was, while telling the story, to develop, in theperson of an imaginary narrator, the character of a thoroughlygood-hearted and tolerably clever man, who has his fingers (as he wouldsay himself) in every one's pie, and who, for the life of him, cannotkeep his own counsel—that is to say, the only person who, by anypossibility, could have collected the mass of family gossip which makesup this tale.
Had the Author told it in his own person, it would have been told withless familiarity, and, as he thinks, you would not have laughed quite sooften.
CONTENTS.
PAGE
CHAPTER I
AN ACCOUNT OF THE FAMILY OF RAVENSHOE 1
CHAPTER II.
SUPPLEMENTARY TO THE FOREGOING 10
CHAPTER III.
IN WHICH OUR HERO'S TROUBLES BEGIN 14
CHAPTER IV.
FATHER MACKWORTH 20
CHAPTER V.
RANFORD 23
CHAPTER VI.
THE "WARREN HASTINGS"