Arthur Quiller-Couch

Statement of Gabriel Foot, Highwayman by Arthur Quiller-Couch is offered here in a clean English digital edition prepared for fluent ebook reading. The work stands within classics and gives modern readers direct access to a public-domain classic with navigable structure and a restrained typographic presentation. The opening pages establish the book's atmosphere with this first movement: The jury re-entered the court after half an hour's consultation.
It all comes back to me as vividly as though I stood in the dock at this very moment. The dense fog that hung over the well of the court; the barristers' wigs that bobbed up through it, and were drowned again in that seething cauldron; This edition is suited to readers who want a reliable, uncluttered version of the text for study, rediscovery, and sustained reading.