The Cost of Caergwyn Volume 1 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1864 Excerpt: ...had Prees bitterly wounded her, marched past her in Dol-y-maenan street with a swagger and a strut and his hat set on one side; now and then too she had seen him in a state of half-intoxication, and many a time the secret fear stole to her heart that he would grow into an unsteady man. But for all that, she loved him. Deep down in the innermost sanctuary of her heart was the little shrine in which stood the image of Prees; deep down in the fairy-land of her fancy lay a garden of roses all dewy and fragrant, and these emblemed her secret love and filled her soul with an endless freshness and delight. In the early spring of the year in which our story commences the good Silence Evans died, and was missed far more than Susannah had ever been, although the active, clever Laura was equal to the management of the small household. Ianto could now read, and was learning, as his sister had done in former years, long passages and chapters of Scripture. His father also was teaching him, in the evening, to write, an accomplishment which had not been thought necessary for Laura, but which she soon, of her own will, acquired at the same time with her brother. 149 CHAPTER VIII. It was not till Laura was turned fifteen that her father thought seriously of her being confirmed. This rite of the Church was performed very laxly, and at remote and uncertain periods, at this time in Wales. Mr Edward Edwards did not trouble himself with such cares. But as Simeon saw his daughter growing tall and womanly, the subject pressed upon his mind with increasing importance. The present Bishop of Bangor, ambitious of a higher episcopate, as was supposed, found himself animated by great zeal for the Church, and announced this autumn his intention of administering the rite of Confirmation du...