Men of Iron by Howard Pyle

I finished this book just a couple of minutes ago. Howard Pyle is a wonderful writer, eloquent almost to excess. It was the sort of book where all the characters speak in old English, which is brilliant and fun to read.
The story is of a boy named Myles Falworth, the son of a blind lord who is hidden away in the countryside, living on the charity of others. Myles, of course, as a young boy, doesn't realize this, and thinks he is in the best of circumstances. He is sent off to the house of an Earl, where he learns all the services of a squire. But when he learns why his father is hidden away, and who is attempting to hunt him down, he must rise to the occasion and ready for the saving of the reputation of his father and of himself.