THE SQUIRE'S DAUGHTER
Being the First Book in the Chronicles of the Clintons
BY ARCHIBALD MARSHALL
NEW YORK
DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY
1920
Published October, 1912
by
DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY
TO
ANSTEY GUTHRIE
Archibald Marshall.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I A Court Ball
CHAPTER II In the Bay of Biscay
CHAPTER III The Clintons of Kencote
CHAPTER IV Clintons Young and Old
CHAPTER V Melbury Park
CHAPTER VI A Good Long Talk
CHAPTER VII The Rector
CHAPTER VIII By the Lake
CHAPTER IX The Question of Marriage
CHAPTER X Town Versus Country
CHAPTER XI A Wedding
CHAPTER XII Food and Raiment
CHAPTER XIII Ronald Mackenzie
CHAPTER XIV The Plunge
CHAPTER XV Bloomsbury
CHAPTER XVI The Pursuit
CHAPTER XVII The Contest
CHAPTER XVIII After the Storm
CHAPTER XIX The Whole House Upset
CHAPTER XX Mrs. Clinton
CHAPTER XXI Cicely's Return
CHAPTER XXII The Life
CHRONICLES OF THE CLINTONS
CHAPTER I
A COURT BALL
"I recollect the time," said the Squire, "when two women going to a ballwere a big enough load for any carriage. You may say what you like aboutcrinolines, but I've seen some very pretty women in them in my time."
There were three people in the carriage passing slowly up the Mall inthe string, with little jerks and progressions. They were the Squirehimself, Mrs. Clinton, and Cicely, and they were on their way to a CourtBall.
The Squire, big, florid, his reddish beard touched with grey fallingover the red and gold of his Deputy-Lieutenant's uniform, sat backcomfortably beside his wife, who was dressed in pale lavender silk, withdiamonds in her smooth, grey-yellow hair. She was short and ratherplump. Her grey eyes, looking out on the violet of the night sky, thetrees, and the cr