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RAVENSHOE


[Illustration: 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 the
reader will soon perceive) the Author's, but Mr. William Marston's.

The Author's intention was, while telling the story, to develop, in the
person of an imaginary narrator, the character of a thoroughly
good-hearted and tolerably clever man, who has his fingers (as he would
say himself) in every one's pie, and who, for the life of him, cannot
keep his own counsel--that is to say, the only person who, by any
possibility, could have collected the mass of family gossip which makes
up this tale.

Had the Author told it in his own person, it would have been told with
less familiarity, and, as he thinks, you would not have laughed quite so
often.




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"                                                 34

CHAPTER VII.
IN WHICH CHARLES AND LORD WELTER DISTINGUISH
THEMSELVES AT THE UNIVERSITY                                          44

CHAPTER VIII.
JOHN MARSTON                                                          50

CHAPTER IX.
ADELAIDE                                                              57

CHAPTER X.
LADY ASCOT'S LITTLE NAP                                               63

CHAPTER XI.
GIVES US AN INSIGHT INTO CHARLES'S DOMESTIC RELATIONS,
AND SHOWS HOW THE GREAT CONSPIRATOR
SOLILOQUISED TO THE GRAND CHANDELIER                                  69

CHAPTER XII.
CONTAINING A SONG BY CHARLES RAVENSHOE, AND ALSO
FATHER TIERNAY'S OPINION ABOUT THE FAMILY                             79

CHAPTER XIII.
THE BLACK HARE                                                        86

CHAPTER XIV.
LORD SALTIRE'S VISIT, AND SOME OF HIS OPINIONS                        92

CHAPTER XV.
CHARLES'S "LIDDELL AND SCOTT"                                         99

CHAPTER XVI.
MARSTON'S ARRIVAL                                                    104

CHAPTER XVII.
IN WHICH THERE IS ANOTHER SHIPWRECK                                  107

CHAPTER XVIII.
MARSTON'S DISAPPOINTMENT                                             114