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THE BRIGHTON ROAD 



could often remain a "passive resister ' and see the 

 invaders struggling with the sloughs, the odds over- 

 whelmingly in favour of the forces of nature. 



The history of Thunderfield will never be written, but 

 if a guess may be hazarded, the final catastrophe, which 



THUNDERFIELD CASTLE. 



was the prime cause of the half-burnt timbers and the 

 many human remains discovered here long ago, was a 

 storming of the place by the forces of the neighbouring 



