Historical fiction
This was a sneering allusion to the recluse, studious habits of his lordship. His lordship, no doubt, would have regarded the sneer as a thunderbolt of lath; that is, if he regarded it as a thunderbolt at all. It is much more likely that he would have accepted the statement in...
This was a sneering allusion to the recluse, studious habits of his lordship. His lordship, no doubt, would have regarded the sneer as a thunderbolt of lath; that is, if he rega...
2. CHAPTER II./Mr. Crosby’s/ bearing was marked upon his departure from Arwenack by none of that exultation proper to the setting out of a young man who regards the world as his oyster. Too m...
3. CHAPTER III.King Philip, however urged by the Pope to do his duty as the secular arm of the Faith and dethrone his excommunicated sister-in-law, was, after all, anything but a fool and not...
4. CHAPTER IV.It was a day of calm, and of blue skies, delusive interlude in the fury of the weather which had lately turned stormy, with frequent tempests that shook the earth and the heaven...
5. CHAPTER V./Don Pedro de Mendoza y Luna/, Count of Marcos and Grande of Spain, opened his eyes and looked up through the pallid dawn at the grey cloud masses overhead. It was some little w...
6. CHAPTER VI.The lady across the brook whom he thus saluted belonged to a type which to a son of Spain must ever seem the most delectable by virtue of that natural law which renders opposite...
7. CHAPTER VII./They/ made their way upwards through the dell by a winding path that was all dappled with the sunlight beating through a ramage still dripping from last night’s storm. The lady...
8. CHAPTER VIII./Don Pedro/ was treated at Trevanion Chase with all the consideration due to an honoured guest, and this in a house famed for its hospitality despite the apparently inhospitable...
9. CHAPTER IX./The/ letter was duly despatched, and in consideration of this fact Sir Gervase might well have practised patience for the little while that Don Pedro was likely to continue at...
10. CHAPTER X./Sir Gervase/ departed that day from Trevanion Chase in the deepest humiliation he had ever known. In another this humiliation might have turned to gall, urging him to a mean ve...
11. CHAPTER XI./If/ Don Pedro’s skill in the deciphering of human documents was great, as I have said, great, too, were his longings. And longings blunt the senses to all things outside of the...
12. CHAPTER XII./My Lord Garth/ sat peacefully over his books, lighted by four tapers which Martin had lately placed upon his table. He was labouring over the _Phaedrus_, and by an odd coincide...
13. CHAPTER XIII./Along/ a gallery, with windows on their right through the blurred glass of which they caught the green sheen of the foliage in the privy garden, Walsingham led them, to a close...
14. CHAPTER XIV./Fear/ was an emotion which had never touched the Lady Margaret Trevanion, because in her twenty-five years of life she had never been exposed to any source of it. From the firs...
15. CHAPTER XV./So/ deeply perturbed by his discovery was Frey Luis that he required time to recover from the shock and to rehearse the measures by which he was to combat Satan for the imperil...
16. CHAPTER XVI./They/ cast anchor at evening two days later in the spacious Bay of Santander, lying sheltered in its green amphitheatre of hills with Mount Valera in the background thrusting u...
17. CHAPTER XVII./It/ would seem that all had been settled and predetermined by Frey Luis with the representatives of the Holy Office in Santander that morning before he returned to the Demoisel...
18. CHAPTER XVIII./For/ two days the Lady Margaret was left to meditate in the solitude and discomfort of her prison. Her fears having been aroused by the parting words of the Fiscal Advocate, it...
19. CHAPTER XIX./At/ the very hour at which the Inquisitor-General in Toledo was considering the vexatious matters contained in Frey Juan de Arrenzuelo’s communication, Sir Gervase Crosby was s...
20. CHAPTER XX./You/ have beheld an unusual spectacle. That of King Philip II of Spain acting upon impulse and under the sway of passion. It was conduct very far from his habit. Patience was t...
21. CHAPTER XXI./After/ Vespers on Sunday, which the Cardinal-Archbishop had returned to celebrate in person in Toledo, having for the purpose quitted the Escurial at dawn and travelled at a sp...
22. CHAPTER XXII./With/ the full facts of the sequel before us in intimate detail (for even where these details depend upon inference, the indications are too clear to admit of error), it may be...
23. CHAPTER XXIII./Having/ been driven by the spiritually minatory persuasions of his confessor into that consumption of his monstrous pride, King Philip, in prey to a reaction common enough in s...
24. CHAPTER XXIV./The/ Auto de Fé was over. The reconciled had been reconducted to the Holy House, where upon the morrow measures would be taken for the enforcement of the penances to which they...