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The Grey Lady
A journey accomplished with Care for a traveling companion usually adheres to the wheels of memory until those wheels are still. Grim Care was with these boys in the railway carriage. A great catastrophe had come to them. A FitzHenry had failed to pass into her Majesty's Navy. Back and back through the generations -- back to the days when England had no navy -- she had always been served at sea by a FitzHenry. Moreover, there had always been a Henry of that name on the books. Henry, the son of Henry, had, as a matter of course, gone down to the sea in a ship, had done his country's business in the great waters.
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First published January 1, 1897
About the author
Henry Seton Merriman
119 books3 followersHugh Stowell Scott was an English novelist (under the pseudonym of Henry Seton Merriman).
Born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1862, he became an underwriter at Lloyd's of London, but then devoted himself to travel and to writing novels, many of which had great popularity. Scott visited India as a tourist in 1877-8 and set his novel Flotsam (1896) there. He was an enthusiastic traveller, many of his journeys being undertaken with his friend and fellow author Stanley J. Weyman. He was unusually modest and retiring in character. He died of appendicitis at the age of about forty at Melton, Suffolk.
Born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1862, he became an underwriter at Lloyd's of London, but then devoted himself to travel and to writing novels, many of which had great popularity. Scott visited India as a tourist in 1877-8 and set his novel Flotsam (1896) there. He was an enthusiastic traveller, many of his journeys being undertaken with his friend and fellow author Stanley J. Weyman. He was unusually modest and retiring in character. He died of appendicitis at the age of about forty at Melton, Suffolk.
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December 18, 2018
I loved the way this book was written and it held my interest the entire time. However, the way the story ended left me feeling rather empty handed, as if there should have been more to it somehow. Regardless, I liked it well enough that I will definitely read more by this little known author.
August 14, 2018
A tale of romance, greed, blackmail, secrets, Spain and ships. Loss and intrigue too as we follow twin brothers along their life paths.
Maybe I'm spoiled, but I expected a bit more from the plot. True, we've got an old, scheming woman (the Gray Lady of the title); a mysterious older man and his unexplained connection to this woman; twin young men, who take two different paths in life; a gold-digging woman and her marriageable daughter; and an innocent lady recently orphaned. With that cast, there are intrigues and plots. But they weren't very satisfactory for me. *shrug*
Maybe I'm spoiled, but I expected a bit more from the plot. True, we've got an old, scheming woman (the Gray Lady of the title); a mysterious older man and his unexplained connection to this woman; twin young men, who take two different paths in life; a gold-digging woman and her marriageable daughter; and an innocent lady recently orphaned. With that cast, there are intrigues and plots. But they weren't very satisfactory for me. *shrug*
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