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Title: Under the Storm
Steadfast's Charge

Author: Charlotte M. Yonge

Release Date: July, 2004
Posting Date: September 30, 2009 [EBook #6006]

Language: English

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Produced by Sandra Laythorpe

UNDER THE STORM

or

STEADFAST'S CHARGE

By Charlotte M. Yonge

Author of "The Heir of Redclyffe," &c.

[Illustration: Cover]

CONTENTS.

Chapter I.--The Trust

" II.--The Stragglers

" III.--Kirk Rapine

" IV.--The Good Cause

" V.--Desolation

" VI.--Left to Themselves

" VII.--The Hermit's Gulley

" VIII.--Stead in Possession

" IX.--Wintry Times

" X.--A Terrible Harvest Day

" XI.--The Fortunes of War

" XII.--Farewell to the Cavaliers

" XIII.--Godly Venn's Troop

" XIV.--The Question

" XV.--A Table of Love in the Wilderness

" XVI.--A Fair Offer

" XVII.--The Groom in Grey

" XVIII.--Jeph's Good Fortune

" XIX.--Patience

" XX.--Emlyn's Service

" XXI.--The Assault of the Cavern

" XXII.--Emlyn's Troth

" XXIII.--Fulfilment

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

Farewell to the Cavaliers
The Hiding of the Casket
Stead Stirring the Porridge
Finding of Emlyn
Stead before the Roundheads
Emlyn at Market

UNDER THE STORM:

OR

STEADFAST'S CHARGE.

CHAPTER I. THE TRUST.

"I brought them here as to a sanctuary."
SOUTHEY.

Most of us have heard of the sad times in the middle of the seventeenth
century, when Englishmen were at war with one another and quiet villages
became battlefields.

We hear a great deal about King and Parliament, great lords and able
generals, Cavaliers and Roundheads, but this story is to help us to
think how it must have gone in those times with quiet folk in cottages
and farmhouses.

There had been peace in England for a great many years, ever since the