Held in Bondage or Granville de Vigne
Subtitle: A Tale of the Day. Volume 1
Publisher: Adamant Media Corporation
Published: April 23, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 331
ISBN-13: 9781402175039
Subjects: tale,novel,Ouida,Held in Bondage,Granville de Vigne; Fiction / General; Fiction / Graphic Novels
First sentence: IT was pleasant down there in Berkshire, when the water rushed beneath the keel; our oars feathered neatly on the ringing rowlocks; the river foamed and flew as we gripped it; and the alders and willows tossed in the sunshine, while we-private pupils, as our tutor called us-men, as we called ourselves-used to pull up the Kennet, as though we were some of an University Eight, and lunch at the Ferry Inn off raw chops and half-and-half, making love to its big-boned, red-haired Hebe, and happy as kings in those summer days, in the dead years long past and gone.