Identifier: englishhoneymoon00whar (find matches)
Title: An English honeymoon
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Wharton, Anne Hollingsworth, 1845- (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Philadelphia and London J. B. Lippincott company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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cester in the ballad and in Sir WalterScotts novel, although she was only Lady Dud-ley, as it appears that Eobert Dudley did notreceive his title of Earl Leicester until afterthe death of his first wife. We selfishly rejoiced that no other tourists or**trippers were at Kenilworth to-day to dis-turb our reveries, and, a rather quiet party, wedrove away from this monument of the Earl ofLeicesters pride, his ambition, and his heart-less cruelty. Miss Cassandra suggested a drive to CumnorHall while our minds were filled with thoughtsof Amy Eobsart, but the drivers common senseacted as a check to our enthusiasm. He advisedus to visit Cumnor from Oxford, a drive ofabout four miles from that town; but, with anamiable desire to humor our fancies, he sug-gested an afternoon excursion to the LeicesterHospital at the west end of High Street, wheresome relics of Lady Amye Dudley, as her nameis written in some of the old chronicles, arestill to be seen. **By all means! exclaimed Miss Cassandra. 90
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IN WARWICKSHIRE ^Let us go to the Hospital and see somethinggood that Leicester has left behind him. Wehave seen quite enough of the evil. Did younotice the tomb and effigy of his little deformedson at St. Marys? The childs rich gown isdecorated with fleur-de-lys, cinquefoils, andragged staves, a collar of lace is around hisneck, and his poor little feet rest upon themuzzled bear of the Beauchamps. The inscrip-tion,—perhaps you did not stop to read it,—proclaims this noble impe scion Eobert of Dud-ley, Baron of Denbigh, sonne of Robert, Earlof Leycester, nephew and heir unto Ambrose,Erie of Warwike, then there follows a line oftitled and princely ancestors and kinsfolklonger than the four-year-old child himself. Yes, we had noticed the tomb of the ** nobleimpe, and we were wondering whether thiswas Leicesters only child, as he seems to haveleft no heir to his many titles and vast estates. Perhaps, said Miss West, with whom itseemed impossible to look long on the dark sideof any ch

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