Slain By The Doones

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Slain By The Doones is by R. D. Blackmore, and its contents list names, among others, After a Stormy Life, By a Quiet River and A Cottage Hospital. A narrator says that, to hear people talking about North Devon, and the savage part called Exmoor, you might almost think that there never was any place in the world so beautiful, or any living men so wonderful. A narrator's father is said to have been full of strong loyalty and, being now very poor and a widower, to have taken refuge in an outlandish place, a house and small property in the heart of Exmoor.

The narrator's father says, If I cannot have my rights, I will have my wrongs. Robert Pring, rebuked by his father, who was a very faithful-minded man, shuffles his long boots down and makes a low salutation. A narrator sees Charlie Doone spur up the bridge, leaning forward and swinging a long blade round his head.

About the author

R. D. Blackmore

R. D. Blackmore was an English novelist and horticulturist whose fiction repeatedly returned to the landscapes, speech, and legends of western England.