Category: Historical Novels
"This Tale in ancient Chronicle,-- In wording old and quaint, In classic language of the past, In letters pale and faint,-- This tale is told. Yet once again Let it be told to-day-- The old, old tale of woman's love, Which lasteth on for aye."
"Is it still Guy?" said he, smiling, but very kindly now. "Always Guy? Well, well! When the time comes--I promised the boy thou shouldst go out to him. We must wait till he writ...
1. Part 1"This Tale in ancient Chronicle,-- In wording old and quaint, In classic language of the past, In letters pale and faint,-- This tale is told. Yet once again Let it be told to-d...
4. Part 4"Well, if there be one thing for which I am thankful it is that the good Lord has not given me much of my own way. It would have been very bad for me."
15. Part 15What a strange thing it is, that when our hearts are specially wrung with distress, our eyes seem opened to notice all sorts of insignificant minutiae which we should never see...
10. Part 10"My child," said Lady Judith gently, "when some duty is brought to thy remembrance, is there nothing within thee which feels as if it rose up, and said, 'Oh, but I do not want t...
14. Part 14As if to show that joys, as well as misfortunes, do not come single, this afternoon arrived a courier with letters from Lusignan,--one from Monseigneur to Guy, another from Raou...
12. Part 12"Now, Helena dear, this is what Christ has done for all believers. His death is reckoned to them, and they are thenceforward free and blameless--perfect as He is perfect, 'compl...
2. Part 2Why does the good God let there be any Saracens? Marguerite says--and so does Father Eudes, so it must be true--that God can do everything, and that He wants everybody to be a g...
8. Part 8I was rather afraid to pursue the question with Margot, for I keep feeling afraid, every now and then, when she says things of that sort, whether she has not received some stran...
11. Part 11I have had a great pleasure to-day, in the shape of a letter from Monseigneur our father, addressed to Guy, but meant for us all three. He wrote about six months after we set ou...
5. Part 5There was a great bustle after that, and noise, and clashing; and I do not remember much distinctly, till I got into the litter with Bertrade, and then first Amaury set forth on...
13. Part 13It seems to me, too--but every body, even Guy, says that is only one of my queer, unaccountable notions--that, since King Foulques of Anjou had no right to the crown except as t...
9. Part 9"Ah, that is all the nobles know!" she answered, quietly enough, but with some fire in the old eyes. "They do not realise that we are men, just as they are. God sent us into His...
16. Part 16Then the Patriarch came forward into the midst of the church, to a faldstool set there: and announced in loud tones, that all the nobles of the Council of Sybil, shortly to be c...
6. Part 6[#] Helen is really quite distinct from Ellen, of which lost Elaine is the older form. The former is a Greek name signifying _attractive, captivating_. The latter is the feminin...
7. Part 7"He is the King of Kings," said Marguerite, so reverently that I was sure she could mean no ill; "and He was of the royal blood of Monseigneur Saint David. That is the Evangel o...
17. Part 17From this marriage the Emperors of Germany and Austria derive the empty title of Kings of Jerusalem. They have no right to it, since the posterity of Violante became extinct in...