The Emperor of Portugallia
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About This Book
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 edition. Excerpt: ... THE SUNDAY AFTER MIDSUMMER THE first Sunday after Midsummer Day there was a grand party at the seine-maker's to which every one in the Ashdales had been invited. The old man and his daughter-in-law were in the habit of entertaining the whole countryside on this day of each year. Folks wondered, of course, how two people who were so pitiably poor could afford to give a bi...
Chapters (48)
- CONTENTS
- BOOK ONE
- THE BEATING HEART
- GLORY GOLDIE SUNNYCASTLE
- THE CHRISTENING
- THE VACCINATION BEE
- THE BIRTHDAY
- CHRISTMAS MORN
- GLORY GOLDIE'S ILLNESS
- CALLING ON RELATIVES
- THE SCHOOL EXAMINATION
- THE CONTEST
- FISHING
- AGRIPPA
- FORBIDDEN FRUIT
- BOOK TWO
- THE RED DRESS
- THE NEW MASTER
- ON THE MOUNTAIN-TOP
- THE EVE OF DEPARTURE
- AT THE PIER
- THE LETTER
- AUGUST DÄR NOL
- OCTOBER THE FIRST
- THE DREAM BEGINS
- HEIRLOOMS
- CLOTHED IN SATIN
- STARS
- WAITING
- THE EMPRESS
- THE EMPEROR
- BOOK THREE
- THE SEVENTEENTH OF AUGUST
- KATRINA AND JAN
- BJÖRN HINDRICKSON'S FUNERAL
- THE DYING HEART
- DEPOSED
- THE CATECHETICAL MEETING
- AN OLD TROLL
- THE SUNDAY AFTER MIDSUMMER
- SUMMERNIGHT
- THE EMPEROR'S CONSORT
- BOOK FOUR
- THE FLIGHT
- HELD!
- JAN'S LAST WORDS
- THE PASSING OF KATRINA
- THE BURIAL OF THE EMPEROR
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