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CHAP. PAGE I. A HUNT IN THE YEAR 1666 1 II. THE HOUSE AT EBESFALVA 18 III. A PRINCE IN HIS OWN DESPITE 27 IV. A BANQUET WITH THE PRINCE OF TRANSYLVANIA 37 V. BODOLA 45 VI. THE BATTLE OF NAGY SZÖLLÖS 57 VII. THE PRINCESS 70 VIII. THE PERI 85 IX. THE PRINCE AND HIS MINISTER 105
Ever since that painful scene at Bonczhida, Lady Banfi had not met her husband. Fate so willed it that Banfi was constantly away from home; scarcely had he come back from the Di...
10. CHAPTER VIII.Once more we are in Hungary, among the Homolka Mountains, in one of those parts of the land which no one has ever thought of colonizing. For fifty miles round there is not a vil...
13. CHAPTER II.The Patrol-officer and his companion had already been travelling for half the day across the Batrina moor on their way to Marisel. Clement kept on asking every living soul he me...
3. CHAPTER I.Before us lies the valley of the Drave, one of those endless wildernesses where even the wild beast loses its way. Forests everywhere, maples and aspens a thousand years old, wi...
14. CHAPTER III.There was a great commotion at Bonczhida Castle. The lord of the manor, Denis Banfi, was expected home from Ebesfalva. The castle gates (on the midmost panel of which blazed a h...
22. Part II. MILK, BUTTER, CHEESE, CEREALS, PREPARED STARCHES, etc.ENGLISH PORCELAIN. A Handbook to the China made in England during the Eighteenth Century, as illustrated by Specimens chiefly, in the National Collection. With numerous Woodcuts...
11. CHAPTER IX.Several years have elapsed since Apafi became a Prince. We have reached that period when the unexpected death of Nicolas Zrinyi dissolved the faction of the malcontent Hungarian...
15. CHAPTER IV.As Denis Banfi, after quitting his wife's chamber, was descending the spiral staircase which led to the hall, he saw a young horseman come galloping at full speed into the court...
9. CHAPTER VII.After the fatal day of Nagy Szöllös, the faithful followers of John Kemeny fled to Hungary, and transferred their allegiance to Simon Kemeny, the son of the fallen Prince. But a...
8. CHAPTER VI.Meanwhile Michael Apafi, comforted by Ali Pasha's assurance that help was nigh at hand, had thrown himself into Segesvar, and there awaited the turn of Fortune's wheel. John Kem...
17. CHAPTER VI.One people perishes there. The walls fall to pieces. The name of the town passes into oblivion. And again there comes another people, which builds upon the ruins, gives the plac...
7. CHAPTER V.In one of the innermost recesses of the county of Felsö-Feher, when you have left behind you the Boza Pass, or avoided it by taking one of the narrow footpaths which wind along...
19. CHAPTER VIII.In itself, a kiss is a very harmless thing. But what if another knows of it or has perceived it? Then indeed it becomes the pole of our suspicion, round which the mind weaves a...
12. CHAPTER I.Clement the Clerk stuck his pen behind his ear and recited to himself the elegant verses which he had just composed, two hundred strophes in all, almost every line of which ende...
5. CHAPTER III.A year had elapsed since Michael Apafi's return home. There was a great hubbub in the house at Ebesfalva. One team of horses had scarcely had time to rest, when off went another...
4. CHAPTER II.A simple country-house stands before us, at the lower end of Ebesfalva, being almost the last house in the place. Evidently the architect of this edifice had rather an eye to us...
6. CHAPTER IV.Meanwhile, his Highness, Prince John Kemeny, was faring sumptuously at Hermannstadt. This gentleman's darling vice was gluttony--even if the whole machinery of state were to fal...
16. CHAPTER V.The blast of hunting-horns resounded from the Batrina Mountains, the hubbub of the chase came nearer and nearer; a group of well-dressed, well-mounted gentlemen led the way, and...
18. CHAPTER VII.'Tis a good old custom which requires that every ceremony should end with a feast, and so the boisterous Diet was succeeded by a still more boisterous banquet, whereat Michael A...
21. CHAPTER X.The Diet, hastily summoned to Fehervár, strongly disapproved of the secret proceedings against Banfi. Paul Beldi was the first to declare that even if Banfi could be arrested by...
1. BOOK I.CHAP. PAGE I. A HUNT IN THE YEAR 1666 1 II. THE HOUSE AT EBESFALVA 18 III. A PRINCE IN HIS OWN DESPITE 27 IV. A BANQUET WITH THE PRINCE OF TRANSYLVANIA 37 V. BODOLA 45 VI. THE B...
2. BOOK II.I. THE PATROL 125 II. SANGE MOARTE 135 III. AN HUNGARIAN MAGNATE IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY 155 IV. THE MIDNIGHT BATTLE 173 V. THE BANQUET TRIBUNAL 189 VI. THE DIET OF KAROLY-FEHE...