Historical vignettes, 1st series

GEORGE I. FOUQUIER-TINVILLE THE QUEEN’S NURSE LOUIS XIV. NAPOLEON LEONORA OF TOLEDO CHARLES IX. THE KING’S CHAMPION QUEEN ELIZABETH JANE SHORE THE CHAPLAIN OF THE TOWER LADY GOD...

From the Quai de l’Horloge came the first roar of the mob, as rabid to flesh its teeth in the accuser as it had ever been in the accused. Already, as the Pont Neuf was reached,...

As he stood, holding the thing in his hand, the time and occasion on which he had consented to its acceptance rose vividly before him. It had been a black night in a certain Oct...

With dawn came hope, came the jocund reassurance of the sun, of the familiar greetings and services and customs. It seemed impossible that tragedy could be lurking behind that k...

Lord Halifax smiled rather sheepishly. He was a large, tolerant soul of sixty, repudiating all sentiment and subject to much. He had been called the “Trimmer”; but, then, no man...

The crowd made way for her, and no man durst follow. Soon she was upon the outskirts of the throng, soon quit of it altogether. Some whispered ribaldries, some rude touches she...

His wife--no question of it! But so etherealised, so remote from his carnal conception of her, that his soul shrank abashed before the spirit his ruthless challenge had evoked....

So sweet and tragic, her heart near stopped from its sorrow as she read it. She knew at once what it was--a mortal Arab poison, given long years ago to her woodland lover by a f...

The Queen, softly replacing her blade, stood staring down. No sound or movement followed on the fall. Stooping, she gazed long and silently into the thin face, then, without a w...

One noon the young wife sat, yawning and a little _ennuyé_, in her bower of the Thanage house by Harewood Forest in Hampshire. Athelwold was with the Court at Winchester, and ti...

A certain flattery in the analogy for an instant restored the colour to Sir Richard’s cheek. Perhaps the comparison was not so extravagant a one after all. The position of Lord...

“O, indeed!” said the old gentleman, with a kindly, nervous lift of his eyes. “Mr. Cibber is it? A very gratifying accident. I must live remote beyond conception, sir, to be ign...

The matter under discussion turned upon the wisdom of appointing a new head to the Priory of St. Come, an important foundation in the southern quarters of the city. Long months...

All of a sudden her heart seemed to stop. Quick, soft steps were coming down the corridor, and the next moment her door opened, and the Duke, followed by a servitor bearing a bo...