Rookwood

by William Harrison Ainsworth

DICK TURPIN CLEARS HORNSEY TOLL-GATE

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PRINTED IN U.S.A. BY ARRANGEMENT WITH
GEORGE BARRIE'S SONS

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Transcriber's Note

Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note. Archaic and dialect spellings have been retained. Greek text appears as originally printed, but with a mouse-hover transliteration, ταφος.

A table of contents, though not present in the original publication, has been provided below:

• [MEMOIR]
• [TO MY MOTHER]
• [PREFACE]
• [BOOK I—THE WEDDING RING]
  • [The Vault]
  • [The Skeleton Hand]
  • [The Park]
  • [The Hall]
  • [Sir Reginald Rookwood]
  • [Sir Piers Rookwood]
  • [The Return]
  • [An Irish Adventurer]
  • [An English Adventurer]
  • [Ranulph Rookwood]
  • [Lady Rookwood]
  • [The Chamber of Death]
  • [The Brothers]
• [BOOK II—THE SEXTON]
  • [The Storm]
  • [The Funeral Oration]
  • [The Churchyard]
  • [The Funeral]
  • [The Captive]
  • [The Apparition]
• [BOOK III—THE GIPSY]
  • [A Morning Ride]
  • [A Gipsy Encampment]
  • [Sybil]
  • [Barbara Lovel]
  • [The Inauguration]
  • [Eleanor Mowbray]
  • [Mrs. Mowbray]
  • [The Parting]
  • [The Philter]
  • [Saint Cyprian's Cell]
  • [The Bridal]
  • [Alan Rookwood]
  • [Mr. Coates]
  • [Dick Turpin]
• [BOOK IV—THE RIDE TO YORK]
  • [The Rendezvous at Kilburn]
  • [Tom King]
  • [A Surprise]
  • [The Hue and Cry]
  • [The Short Pipe]
  • [Black Bess]
  • [The York Stage]
  • [Roadside Inn]
  • [Excitement]
  • [The Gibbet]
  • [The Phantom Steed]
  • [Cawood Ferry]
• [BOOK V—THE OATH]
  • [The Hut on Thorne Waste]
  • [Major Mowbray]
  • [Handassah]
  • [The Dower of Sybil]
  • [The Sarcophagus]
• [L'ENVOY]
• [NOTES]

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