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To Have and to Hold

Mary Johnston

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A story that takes place in colonial Jamestown in 1600, To Have and To Hold melds itself to a combination of a romance novel, a sea faring story, as well as an adventure story.

ither eat nor drink until the sun goes down. The flesh is a strong giant, very full of pride and lust of living, and the spirit must needs keep watch and ward, seizing every opportunity to mortify and deject its adversary. Goodwife Allen is still gaping with the crowd at the fort, and your man and maid have not yet come, but I shall be overhead if you need aught. Mistress Percy must want rest after her ride."

 

He was gone, leaving us two alone together. She stood opposite me, beside the window, from which she had not moved since entering the room. The color was still in her cheeks, the light in her eyes, and she still held the roses with which Sparrow had heaped her arms. I was moving to the table.

"Wait!" she said, and I turned toward her again.

"Have you no questions to ask?" she demanded.

I shook my head. "None, madam."

"I was the King's ward!" she cried.

I bowed, but spoke no word, though she waited for me.

"If you will listen," she said at last, proudly, and yet with a pleading sweetness,—"if you will listen, I will tell you how it was that I—that I came to wrong you so."

"I am listening, madam," I replied.

She stood against the light, the roses pressed to her bosom, her dark eyes upon me, her head held high. "My mother died when I was born; my father, years ago. I was the King's ward. While the Queen lived she kept me with her,—she loved me, I think; and the King too was kind,—would have me sing to him, and would talk to me about witchcraft and the Scriptures, and how rebellion to a king is rebellion to God. When I was sixteen, and he tendered me marriage with a Scotch lord, I, who loved the gentleman not, never having seen him, prayed the King to take the value of my marriage and leave me my freedom. He was so good to me then that the Scotch lord was wed elsewhere, and I danced at the wedding with a mind at e

Terris 01/31/2022
I was surprised and delighted by this book! It was not what I was expecting. I thought it was going to be a more somber history of the era. However, it turned out to be an adventure story that included frontiersmen, battles between the New Englanders and the natives, and the main character even beco
Carol 11/14/2019
Why don't more people know about this book? It's an incredibly romantic story of historical adventure set in the days of the Jamestown Colony in Virginia. Ralph Percy is a rough soldier who agrees to purchase a wife from England, not knowing that the lovely Jocelyn is not really an indentured servan
Carol 11/14/2019
Why don't more people know about this book? It's an incredibly romantic story of historical adventure set in the days of the Jamestown Colony in Virginia. Ralph Percy is a rough soldier who agrees to purchase a wife from England, not knowing that the lovely Jocelyn is not really an indentured servan
Carol 11/27/2017
I stumbled across this book by accident when I was teaching high school and had access to the musty old supply room. There were thirty copies of the "adapted" version which must have been used to teach remedial readers forty or fifty years ago. Not exactly a good recommendation for a book!

Still, the
Hayley 02/04/2017
Wow was all I could say when I read this book. It is told in first-person by Ralph Percy, one time captain in the King's army. It starts when John Rolfe urges him to see about getting a bride, as a ship full of women are coming to be bartered for -- a large load of tobacco shall buy a very nice one.
Jenny 02/09/2015
I selected this title for the collection, and it's my favorite of our inaugural line-up. But then, I am a sucker for anything Colonial American! To Have and to Hold was originally published as a serial, so you can expect lots of dramatic twists and turns. It's rich in real history with gorgeous lang
Linore 04/15/2010
This book was an unexpected delight. Besides the fascinating historicity of 17th century life in the early Virginia settlement (Jamestown), there is a love story, a good meaty villain, and a winsome, well developed cast of characters. The place sketches (land, water, geography, topography) is so wel

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