"'OH, I ENVIED HER!' SHE CRIED"
Sir Mortimer
A Novel
BY
Mary Johnston
AUTHOR OF "TO HAVE AND TO HOLD"
"PRISONERS OF HOPE" ETC.
1904
Illustrations
| "'OH, I ENVIED HER!' SHE CRIED" | Frontispiece |
| "SIR JOHN THRUST HIMSELF BETWEEN THE TWO" | Facing p. 16 |
| "IT WAS BALDRY'S SHIP, THE LITTLE STAR" | 52 |
| "'DO YOU PURPOSE, THEN, THAT HE SHALL DIE?' DEMANDEDBALDRY" | 138 |
| "'I BEG THE SHORTEST SHRIFT THAT YOU MAY GIVE'" | 174 |
| "'DAMARIS, THEY CALL HIM TRAITOR'" " | 190 |
| '"AH, LOOK NOT SO UPON ME!'" " | 244 |
| "THE FRIAR PRESENTED A BLANK COUNTENANCE TO SIR MORTIMER'SQUERIES" | 260 |
| "'LAD, LAD,' HE WHISPERED, 'WHERE IS THY MASTER?'" | 284 |
Sir Mortimer
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ut if we return not from our adventure," ended Sir Mortimer, "ifthe sea claims us, and upon his sandy floor, amid his Armidagardens, the silver-singing mermaiden marvel at that wreckage whichwas once a tall ship and at those bones which once wereanimate,--if strange islands know our resting-place, sunk forevermore in huge and most unkindly forests,--if, being but pawns ina mighty game, we are lost or changed, happy, however, in that thewhite hand of our Queen hath touched us, giving therebyconsecration to our else unworthiness,--if we find no gold, nortake one ship of Spain, nor any city treasure-stored,--if we suffera myriad sort of sorrows and at the