The Hero

(1901)

"Rule, Britannia!

Britannia, rule the waves;

Britons never will be slaves."

--Alfred: A Masque by James Thomson

"O Sophonisba, Sophonisba, O!"

--Sophonisba: a Tragedy by the same Author

Dedicated To Miss Julia Maugham

Then came the Boer War; for the parents at Little Primpton and for Mary Clibborn days of fearful anxiety, of gnawing pain—all the greater because each, for the other's sake, tried to conceal it; and at last the announcement in the paper that James Parsons had been severely wounded while attempting to save the life of a brother officer, and was recommended for the Victoria Cross.--Chapter 1

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