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Two great forces fight for England ? and one woman is torn between them It is 1642, and civil war is beginning to split England in half. The dashing Cavaliers swear loyalty to the Crown; the stern Puritans vow to risk all for liberty and their mighty, wrathful God . . . and beautiful, fiery Lilias Pride will face the hardest choice of her life. Married to Richard Pride, MP for Bristol, she devotes her loyalty to him and to the Puritan cause. Yet Priam Lithgow, Royalist Earl of Chelwood, stirs her deeply, and when he falls into danger, she risks her life to save his. With the Restoration, Lilias hopes to flee love and peril and find safety in the New World of America. Yet she cannot escape her heart ? or her destiny.… (altro)
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Trail all your pikes, dispirit every drum, / March in slow procession from afar, / Ye silent, ye dejected men of war! / Be still the hautboys and the flute be dumb! / Display no more, in vain, the lofty banner. / For see, where on the bier before ye lies / The pale, the fall'n, th' untimely sacrifice / to your mistaken shrine, to your false idol, Honor. --Anne Countess of Winchelsea, 1661-1720
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"Is it much farther?" she asked, as a cold wind cut her face and flattened her skirts against her legs which felt as though they had turned to water.
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And this time it was with true joy in her heart that she answered: "Yes, oh yes, Priam, my love, I'll marry you."
Two great forces fight for England ? and one woman is torn between them It is 1642, and civil war is beginning to split England in half. The dashing Cavaliers swear loyalty to the Crown; the stern Puritans vow to risk all for liberty and their mighty, wrathful God . . . and beautiful, fiery Lilias Pride will face the hardest choice of her life. Married to Richard Pride, MP for Bristol, she devotes her loyalty to him and to the Puritan cause. Yet Priam Lithgow, Royalist Earl of Chelwood, stirs her deeply, and when he falls into danger, she risks her life to save his. With the Restoration, Lilias hopes to flee love and peril and find safety in the New World of America. Yet she cannot escape her heart ? or her destiny.