Category: Historical Novels
The new bower was a very pretty room--for the thirteenth century--but its girl-owner was the prettiest thing in it. Her age was thirteen that day, but she was so tall that she might easily have been supposed two or three years older. She had a very fair complexion, violet-blue...
"Joy for the freed one! She might not stay When the crown had fallen from her life away: She might not linger, a weary thing, A dove with no home for its broken wing, Thrown on...
2. CHAPTER TWO.Earl Hubert was far too busy a man to waste his time in lounging on velvet settles and exchanging sallies of wit with the ladies of his household. He had done little more than g...
9. CHAPTER NINE.Father Bruno was walking slowly, with his hands one in the other behind him, about a mile from Bury Castle. It was a lovely morning in April, and, though alone, he had no fear o...
3. CHAPTER THREE.He was fair-haired and bright-faced, with a slender, elegant figure, and all his motions were very agile. Beginning with--"I say, Magot!"--he stopped suddenly both tongue and fe...
5. CHAPTER FIVE.The pedlar, Abraham, declined to remain at the Castle. There were plenty of places, he said, where an old man could be safe: it was quite another thing for a young girl. If his...
1. CHAPTER ONE.The new bower was a very pretty room--for the thirteenth century--but its girl-owner was the prettiest thing in it. Her age was thirteen that day, but she was so tall that she m...
13. CHAPTER THIRTEEN."And speak'st thou thus, Despairing of the sun that sets to thee, And of the earthly love that wanes to thee, And of the Heaven that lieth far from thee? Peace, peace, fond fool...
8. CHAPTER EIGHT.It was a tall youth who asked the question, and he stood under the porch of a large Gothic house, on the banks of the Thames near Westminster. The night was wet and dark, and it...
6. CHAPTER SIX."Had the knight looked up to the page's face, No smile the word had won; Had the knight looked up to the page's face, I ween he had never gone: Had the knight looked back to the...
11. CHAPTER ELEVEN."Nay, my son, it is of no use. I shall never forsake the faith of my fathers. For this child, if she can believe it,--well: she is more thine than mine,--_ay Dios_! And perhaps...
12. CHAPTER TWELVE.It was fortunate for Bruno de Malpas that he had a friend in Bishop Grosteste, whose large heart and clear brain were readily interested in his wish to return from regular to se...
4. CHAPTER FOUR.The course of public events at that time was of decidedly a stirring character. The public considered that four mock suns which had been seen during the previous winter, two sna...
14. CHAPTER FOURTEEN."Too tired for rapture, scarce I reach and cling To One that standeth by with outstretched hand; Too tired to hold Him, if He hold not me: Too tired to long but for one heavenly...
7. CHAPTER SEVEN.So faithfully had the Countess adhered to her plighted word that Belasez should be seen by no one, that not one of the priests had yet beheld her except Father Nicholas, and the...
10. CHAPTER TEN."Old Cuntessa is engaged as nurse for Rosia the wife of Bonamy the rich usurer, and Pucella would be no good,--she's as frightened of the fever as a chicken, and she has never h...