Katherine Christian: Large Print
by Hugh Walpole
2020-05-26 16:10:44
Katherine Christian: Large Print
by Hugh Walpole
2020-05-26 16:10:44
his novel is an unfinished addition to the Herries series. Hugh Walpole had become attached to the characters of the original four Herries Chronicles and revisited them in this book and its predecessor, The Bright PavilionsRobert Herries looked up, s...
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his novel is an unfinished addition to the Herries series. Hugh Walpole had become attached to the characters of the original four Herries Chronicles and revisited them in this book and its predecessor, The Bright PavilionsRobert Herries looked up, staggered to his feet and, chuckling, started across the floor towards his father.Nicholas Herries, his father, and Rosamund Herries, his mother, looked at him with love and pride. Nicholas, a vast man, was in this year 1603 fifty-nine years of age and his wife thirty-seven. They were in their own house at Westminster and all was very well with them. Robert, their only child, was now three years of age. In build he was broad and well-formed but short, his sturdy legs strong on the ground, his round head well set on histhick neck, his eyes steady and piercing.
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