Honor Bright: A Story of the Days of King Charles

“With his dark locks and swarthy cheeks smudged with dirt, the good folks took him for some gipsy boy.”

Honor Bright
A STORY OF THE DAYS OF KING CHARLES
BY MARY C. ROWSELL
WITH TWENTY-THREE ILLUSTRATIONS
PHILADELPHIA HENRY ALTEMUS COMPANY

Copyright, 1900, by HENRY ALTEMUS COMPANY.

One fine autumn morning a long time ago, a little boy lay stretched in the broad seat of a latticed window, gazing earnestly with his great dark eyes on the scene before him. The window was the only one in the room, which was situated high up in a sort of tower at the corner of a big old house.