# If I Were King

Author: McCarthy, Justin H. (Justin Huntly), 1860-1936

Genre: Category: Historical Novels

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5351

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=If+I+Were+King+McCarthy&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

In the dark main room of the Fircone Tavern the warm June air seemed to have lost all its delicacy, like a degraded angel. It was sodden through and through, as with the lees of wine; it was stained and shamed with the smells of hams and cheeses; it was thick and heavy as if with the breaths of all the rogues and all the vagabonds that had haunted the hostelry from its evil dawn. Such guttering lights and glimmering flames as lit the place--for there was a small fire on the wide hearth in spite of the fine weather--peopled the gloom with fantastic quivering shadows as of lean fingers that unfolded themselves to filch, or clenched themselves to stab in the back. But its patrons seemed to l...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/if-i-were-king-5351/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/if-i-were-king-5351/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/if-i-were-king-5351/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/if-i-were-king-5351/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/if-i-were-king-5351/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/if-i-were-king-5351/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/if-i-were-king-5351/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/if-i-were-king-5351/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/if-i-were-king-5351/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Chapter 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/if-i-were-king-5351/chapters/16/index.md)
- [Chapter 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/if-i-were-king-5351/chapters/15/index.md)
- [Chapter 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/if-i-were-king-5351/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/if-i-were-king-5351/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Chapter 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/if-i-were-king-5351/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Chapter 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/if-i-were-king-5351/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Chapter 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/if-i-were-king-5351/chapters/10/index.md)