Category: Historical Novels
“SHE SCANNED THE SEA FOR A SAIL” _Frontispiece_ ISLAND OF JERSEY _Facing p._ 1 “‘LET US KNEEL AND PRAY FOR TWO DYING MEN’” 28 “BUONESPOIR LOOKED TO THE PRIMING OF HIS PISTOLS” 70 “SHE WAS IN CURIOUS CONTRAST TO THE QUEEN” 128 “‘HANG FAST TO YOUR HONORS BY THE SKIN OF YOUR TEET...
Yet as he now bowed low before Angèle there seemed to show in his face a very candor of surprise, of pleasure, joined to a something friendly and protective in his glance and ma...
10. Part 10Angèle had come to know, as others in like case have ever done, how wretched indeed is that poor man that hangs on princes’ favors. She had saved the Queen’s life upon May Day,...
2. Part 2With a fair wind they might, with all canvas set--mainsail, foresail, jib, and foretopsail--make Rozel Bay within two hours and a quarter. All seemed well for a brief half-hour....
8. Part 8The gentlemen of England fared ill that day in the sight of all the people, for the challenger of the Knights-Tilters was more than a match for each that came upon him. He rode...
6. Part 6Elizabeth pushed a velvet cushion towards Angèle, where she half-knelt, half-sat on the rush-strewn floor of the great chamber. The warm light of the afternoon sun glowed throug...
5. Part 5Lemprière stared at him swelling with rage; but the quaint smiling of the fool conquered him, and, instead of turning on his heel, he spread himself like a Colossus and looked d...
1. Part 1“SHE SCANNED THE SEA FOR A SAIL” _Frontispiece_ ISLAND OF JERSEY _Facing p._ 1 “‘LET US KNEEL AND PRAY FOR TWO DYING MEN’” 28 “BUONESPOIR LOOKED TO THE PRIMING OF HIS PISTOLS” 7...
3. Part 3“It will bring things to a head,” he answered. “After danger and busy days, to be merely safe, it is scarce the life for Michel de la Forêt. I have my duty to the comtesse; I ha...
11. Part 11There was an instant’s pause, and then she said to Angèle, with gracious look and in a low voice: “You have heard from me that calumny which the innocent never escape. To try yo...
4. Part 4A fortnight later, of a Sunday morning, the Lord Chamberlain of England was disturbed out of his usual equanimity. As he was treading the rushes in the presence-chamber of the r...
7. Part 7As twilight was giving place to night Angèle was roused from the revery into which she had fallen, by the Duke’s Daughter, who whispered to her that if she would have a pleasure...
12. Part 12“If you had _failed_ there had been no need to grieve for Michel. He had not grieved for thee. But see, the wind blows fair, and in my heart I have no fear of the end. You shall...