The Great Captain: A Story of the Days of Sir Walter Raleigh — John Shaqi
The Great Captain: A Story of the Days of Sir Walter RaleighTynan, Katharine
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The Great Captain: A Story of the Days of Sir Walter Raleigh
Tynan, Katharine
Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618 -- Fiction
But for myself, I and my sea-chests were put ashore at a little French
town, from whence in due time I made my way to Douai, and restored the
treasure to Her from whom it had been taken. And since Tyburn Tree had
so greatly added to the glorious throng of the martyrs, and the ranks
were thinned of those who would follow in their footsteps, I asked the
Fathers of the English College to accept me among them, which of their
graciousness they did; for I was grown sick of the world. And who cares
that Father Walter is pock-pitted and hath one blind eye?
Once I had cared only to be of the flower of knighthood. Now all my
dream is that I might some day earn that greeting of St. Philip to my
forerunners in these gray halls—_Salvete, flos martyrum_!
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