Excerpt from The Colonel's Jewels This attitude has been fostered by political mal contents for many years and in 1857 the members Of the Old royal families Of India fomented the terrible Sepoy Rebellion. The Indian people seemed to have evinced a certain degree Of veneration for her gracious Majesty, Queen Victoria, and this feeling Of unrest has been noticed especially since her death. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Excerpt from The Colonel's Story As I write of the Colonel, he seems to stand before me: handsome, deferential, and with a certain repose of bearing, ever the hall-mark of a gentleman. He was wont to say of himself, I am like a weather-beaten old oak: of small use in the landscape, but with a sheltering arm still, and, please God, a sound heart. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Jewel House: An Account of the Many Romances Connected With the Royal Regalia Together With Sir Gilbert Talbot's Account of Colonel Blood's Plot Here Reproduced for the First Time The Jewel House: An Account of the Many Romances Connected With the Royal Regalia Together With Sir Gilbert Talbot's Account of Colonel Blood's Plot Here Reproduced for the First Time was written by G. Younghusband in 1921. This is a 287 page book, containing 61728 words and 14 pictures. Search Inside is enabled for this title. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Lastchance Junction, Far, Far West: A Novel The Colonel promptly levelled his cane in ah other direction, where, in the most conspicuous part of the structure, Mrs. Colonel Magnus Bloomer seemed to draw all the afternoon rays to herself and then to scintillate them forth again. She was large, handsome, florid, and she was set in a frame of inexhaustible brilliancy. Some young girls, of a like tropical luxuriance of color, surrounded her, and these were sur rounded by a group of young men, brave with vivid neck-scarfs and bright jewels, and whose tail silk hats seemed to hold the same precari ous tenure on prosperity and social eminence as that indicated by the Colonel's own. As he gazed, however, the Colonel entirely recovered his self-complacency. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

This gripping tale of seventeenth-century England's most wanted man is set against the background of the civil wars in England and Ireland.