Category: Historical Novels
_Claud._ I look'd upon her with a soldier's eye, That liked, but had a rougher task in hand Than to drive liking to the name of love: But now I am returned, and that war thoughts Have left their places vacant; in their rooms Come thronging soft and delicate desires, All prompt...
_Claud._ I look'd upon her with a soldier's eye, That liked, but had a rougher task in hand Than to drive liking to the name of love: But now I am returned, and that war thought...
2. Part 2"Insolent brat, I neither know nor care!" replied the captain, grasping his riding switch, and regarding the bold youth sternly; "and but that your chin is smooth as an apple--p...
3. Part 3"Madonna keep his most sacred majesty!" said the robber chief, uncovering: "your horse and baggage shall be restored to you, and all letters addressed to the good Cavaliere Stua...
4. Part 4"Dearest Claude!" exclaimed Bianca, in a tone of joy, as she passed her arm through mine; while he of the sky-blue frock and star grew pale with anger: he laid his hand on the h...
5. Part 5"Formal duels are seldom fought in Italy: secretly or openly, the knife generally ends all disputes," replied the visconte; "but the challenged usually has the choice of weapons...
6. Part 6The outcries of the assembled household, together with the clank of heavy boots, the clash of weapons, the snapping of pistols, the groans and cries of the wounded, and the impr...
7. Part 7He was dreadfully exhausted and agitated. Castelermo might well term Luisa fair: one excepted, her face appeared to me the most enchanting I had yet seen in Calabria. Though les...
8. Part 8"Well, gentlemen, I am a Neapolitan barone, a chief of the Masse, and commandant of Irregular Cavalry; empowered to capture this unfortunate fugitive, and execute upon her a sen...
9. Part 9"Beware of that little fellow Navarro!" said Castelermo, tapping me on the shoulder; "he regards you with no friendly eye, for the _expose_ you made of his ignorance. He is Sici...
10. Part 10"Taunt me not--taunt me not!" he exclaimed, wildly; "God! I am your brother--I am Frank, who was dismissed from the Corsicans so unjustly. This hour--this agony--my wound--O say...
11. Part 11"You shall hear. Ah! the prelude--hear him--excellent! He excels Andrea Marone in verse; and our fair Gorilla, the gifted peasant girl of Pistoia, who, amid the roar of a hundre...
12. Part 12By the captain, Guevarra, a pompous little Sicilian, I was formally welcomed on board "His Majesty's galley, _Sea-Horse_" (a phrase he was very fond of repeating), and invited t...
13. Part 13"Ha! Signor Guevarra, I knew that the clear fires of Stromboli betokened something--behold!" As he spoke, a heavy and dense bank of clouds spread from the northern horizon, and...
14. Part 14We were drenched to the skin, and had been so all night: we were without food, yet continued to toil at the pumps; which soon, to our great dismay, brought up clear water. The s...
15. Part 15Next morning, I was awakened by the familiar but unwelcome sound of drums beating. Dressing in my strange garb, and descending to the lawn which lay around the mansion, I walked...
16. Part 16"Anxiously," I replied; "but not without the Signora D'Alfieri, whose dispensation you so graciously requested. Permit me to reside here a few days longer--at least until it arr...
17. Part 17Confused by the explosion of the pistol, I was dragged back to the ring-bolt on deck; where I remained, helplessly, during all the horrors of the battle which ensued. Laura,--it...