ELEANOR MOWBRAY
CHAPTER VII
MRS. MOWBRAY
CHAPTER VIII
THE PARTING
CHAPTER IX
THE PHILTER
CHAPTER X
SAINT CYPRIAN'S CELL
CHAPTER XI
THE BRIDAL
CHAPTER XII
ALAN ROOKWOOD
CHAPTER XIII
MR. COATES
CHAPTER XIV
DICK TURPIN
BOOK IV
THE RIDE TO YORK
CHAPTER I
THE RENDEZVOUS AT KILBURN
CHAPTER II
TOM KING
CHAPTER III
A SURPRISE
CHAPTER IV
THE HUE AND CRY
CHAPTER V
THE SHORT PIPE
CHAPTER VI
BLACK BESS
CHAPTER VII
THE YORK STAGE
CHAPTER VIII
ROADSIDE INN
CHAPTER IX
EXCITEMENT
CHAPTER X
THE GIBBET
CHAPTER XI
THE PHANTOM STEED
CHAPTER XII
CAWOOD FERRY
BOOK V
THE OATH
CHAPTER I
THE HUT ON THORNE WASTE
CHAPTER II
MAJOR MOWBRAY
CHAPTER III
HANDASSAH
CHAPTER IV
THE DOWER OF SYBIL
CHAPTER V
THE SARCOPHAGUS
L'ENVOY
NOTES
PREFACE
Table of Contents
During a visit to Chesterfield, in the autumn of the year 1831, I first conceived the notion of writing this story. Wishing to describe, somewhat minutely, the trim gardens, the picturesque domains, the rook-haunted groves, the gloomy chambers, and gloomier galleries, of an ancient Hall with which I was acquainted, I resolved to attempt a story in the bygone style of Mrs. Radcliffe—which had always inexpressible charms for me—substituting an old English squire, an old English manorial residence,
