Fated to Be Free: A Novel

· 1897

"Unto whom all hearts be open, all desires known, and from whom no secrets are hid."--_Collect, English Communion Service._ In one of the south-western counties of England, some years ago, and in a deep, well-wooded valley where men made perry and cider, wandered little and read less, there was a hamlet with neither farm nor cottage in it, that had not stood two hundred and fifty years, and just beyond there was a church nearly double that age, and there were the mighty wrecks of two great oak-trees, said to be more ancient still.…

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