Lysbeth: A Tale of the DutchTeenage and adult readers will be inspired by this historical novel about a Dutch woman who is caught up in the terrors of the Spanish Inquisition during the 1500s. This lively and heart-rending story by H. Rider Haggard will remind each reader of the value of religious liberty. Grade 8 and up. |
Contents
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HENDRIK BRANT HAS A VISITOR | 90 |
THE Mares StablE | 100 |
ADRIAN FOY AND MARTIN the | 115 |
ADRIAN GOES OUT HAWKING | 133 |
ADRIAN RESCUES BEAUTY IN DISTRESS | 147 |
THE SUMMONS | 165 |
MOTHERS GIFTS ARE GOOD GIFTS | 178 |
How MARTIN TURNED COWARD | 298 |
A MEETING AND A PARTING | 310 |
Book Bree Book THE HARVESTING | 325 |
FATHER AND SON | 327 |
MARTHA PREACHES A SERMON AND TELLS A SECRET | 343 |
THE RED MILL | 356 |
THE BRIDEGROOM AND THE BRIDE | 370 |
WHAT ELSA SAW IN THE MOONLIGHT | 388 |
SWORD SILENCE RECEIVES THE SECRET | 193 |
THE Master | 226 |
CHAPTER PAGE XVII BETROTHED | 241 |
FOY SEES A VISION | 255 |
THE FRAY IN THE SHOT TOWER | 268 |
IN THE GRAVENSTEEN | 285 |
ATONEMENT | 401 |
ADRIAN COMES HOME AGAIN | 417 |
Two SCENES | 434 |
EPILOGUE 445 | |
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Page 70 - But he that is married careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife.
Page 401 - Man, this is one of the most extraordinary, that he shall go on from day to day, from week to week, from month to month.
Page 70 - But he that standeth stedfast in his heart, having no necessity, but hath power as touching his own will, and hath determined this in his own heart, to keep his own virgin daughter, shall do well. So then both he that giveth his own virgin daughter in marriage doeth well ; and he that giveth her not in marriage shall do better.
Page 70 - The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married careth for the things of the world, how she may please her husband. 35 And this I speak for your own profit; not that I may cast a snare upon you, but for that which is comely, and that ye may attend upon the Lord without distraction.
Page 70 - Nevertheless, he that standeth steadfast in his heart, having no necessity, but hath power over his own will, and hath so decreed in his heart that he will keep his virgin, doeth well. 38 So then he that giveth her in marriage doeth well ; but he that giveth her not in marriage doeth better.
Page 296 - Alva's officials in such daysliad means of overcoming any maidenly reluctance, or at least of forcing women to choose between death and degradation. Was it not common for them even to dissolve marriages in order to give heretics to new husbands...
Page 70 - So then he that giveth her in marriage doeth well ; but he that giveth her not in marriage doeth better. 39 The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth ; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty tobemarritd to whom she will ; only in the Lord.