Sir Mortimer

A Novel

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Sir Mortimer is presented as a novel by Mary Johnston. Sir John Nevil sits at a table with maps and charts while Mortimer Ferne leans over his commander's shoulder and watches a finger tracing the coastline. Henry Sedley, a lieutenant described as a young gentleman of great promise, plays a sweet and plaintive air softly on a gittern taken from the wall.

Ferne tells Captain Robert Baldry that his gossips lied, warns that repeating lies without examining a quarrel may lead to being called a liar, and flings his glove. Arden supports a sinking figure and guides it to a seat, while someone holds wine to the lips before Sir Mortimer opens his eyes.

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Mary Johnston

Mary Johnston was a Virginia novelist and suffrage advocate whose historical fiction moved across colonial America, the Civil War, and Europe. Prisoners of Hope, her 1898 debut, and Audrey, published in 1902, established her reputation through stories of early Virginia.