The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck Chapter 40 - An Escape

from The Mary Shelley Library · host Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

In which the Lady Katherine watches anxiously from Ardmore Tower as news arrives of a failed siege and the escape of Duke Richard aboard the caravel Adalid, whose Moorish captain navigates them towards the hopeful refuge of Cornwall. The voyage stirs differing reflections: Richard clings to his sanguine claims on England, while Katherine, grounded in a quieter wisdom, envisions the true worth of affection and tranquillity over the fleeting splendours of power.

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