Chapter I: Front Matter

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GRISLY GRISELL
OR
THE LAIDLY LADY OF WHITBURN

A TALE OF THE WARS OF THE ROSES

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BY
CHARLOTTE M. YONGE
AUTHOR OF ‘THE HEIR OF REDCLYFFE’, ETC. ETC.

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London
MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED
NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1906

_All rights reserved_

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Copyright, 1893,
BY MACMILLAN & CO.

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Men speak of Job, and for his humblesse,
And clerkes when hem list can well endite,
Namely of men, but as in stedfastnese
Though clerkes preisin women but a lite,
There can no man in humblesse him acquite
As women can, nor can be half so trewe
As women ben.

CHAUCER, _The Clerke’s Tale_.

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_First Edition_ (2 _Vols. Crown_ 8_vo_) 1893
_Second Edition_ (1 _Vol. Crown_ 8_vo_) 1894, 1906.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I. AN EXPLOSION 1
II. THE BROKEN MATCH 12
III. THE MIRROR 26
IV. PARTING 36
V. SISTER AVICE 46
VI. THE PROCTOR 57
VII. THE PILGRIM OF SALISBURY 68
VIII. OLD PLAYFELLOWS 80
IX. THE KING-MAKER 87
X. COLD WELCOME 101
XI. BERNARD 112
XII. WORD FROM THE WARS 127
XIII. A KNOT 137
XIV. THE LONELY BRIDE 150
XV. WAKEFIELD BRIDGE 159
XVI. A NEW MASTER 169
XVII. STRANGE GUESTS 177
XVIII. WITCHERY 185
XIX. A MARCH HARE 195
XX. A BLIGHT ON THE WHITE ROSE 205
XXI. THE WOUNDED KNIGHT 213
XXII. THE CITY OF BRIDGES 222
XXIII. THE CANKERED OAK GALL 231
XXIV. GRISELL’S PATIENCE 244
XXV. THE OLD DUCHESS 253
XXVI. THE DUKE’S DEATH 260
XXVII. FORGET ME NOT 268
XXVIII. THE PAGEANT 274
XXIX. DUCHESS MARGARET 285
XXX. THE WEDDING CHIMES 295