Category: Historical Novels
I. THE CALLEJÓN DE LAS CRUCES. II. THE LETTER. III. THE RECLUSES. IV. THE INTERVIEW. V. THE PREPARATIONS OF TYRO. VI. COMPLICATIONS. VII. THE PANIC. VIII. THE SOLITARY. IX. THE INDIAN. X. ACROSS COUNTRY.
Without being able quite clearly to account for the sentiments he entertained for them, however unfortunate himself, he felt himself constrained to aid and succour by all means...
3. CHAPTER I.Although the town of San Miguel de Tucuman is not very ancient, and its construction dates scarcely two centuries back, nevertheless--thanks, perhaps, to the calm and studious p...
14. CHAPTER V.The night was calm; nothing disturbed its peaceful and majestic tranquillity. The guardsmen kept watch with a conscientious alertness over the repose of their kinsmen, which is...
17. CHAPTER V.We will abandon for some time the Guaycurus chiefs, to transport ourselves twenty leagues off, in the very heart of the Cordilleras, where were certain personages which have muc...
5. CHAPTER III.Almost at the moment when the half hour after ten in the morning had sounded from the clock of the Cabildo of San Miguel de Tucuman, a man knocked at the door of the mysterious...
4. CHAPTER II.Having reached his bedroom, he doubly locked the door; then, certain that for a time no one would come to thrust him out of this last asylum, he allowed himself to fall heavily...
22. CHAPTER X.We must now return to the Guaycurus chiefs, whom we left at the moment when, following Don Zeno Cabral, they entered a cavern where the Montonero--at least according to the word...
12. CHAPTER X."I have paid you, you are free now to leave us," said the Guaraní to them, "unless you consent to make a new bargain with this gentleman, in whose name I have engaged you."
11. CHAPTER IX.As we have said at the end of the preceding chapter, at the moment when the painter came out of the gallery in the cavern, he found himself face to face with Tyro, who, having e...
6. CHAPTER IV.They proceeded thus for a considerable time through the corridors, without exchanging a word; but at the moment when they had reached the entry of the first cloister, the chief...
19. CHAPTER VII.If Emile Gagnepain became somewhat more calm, certainly the strange spectacle that he had before him had aroused not only his gaiety but his caustic fancy. This shameless parody...
8. CHAPTER VI.The same day on which transpired the various events which we have related in our preceding chapters, about nine o'clock in the evening, two persons were seated in the room of th...
18. CHAPTER VI.The horsemen who advanced in the canyon, in the direction of Casa-Frama--as the headquarters of the Pincheyras was called--formed a troop of about thirty men. All were well arme...
10. CHAPTER VIII.We must now return to the French painter that we have left buried, so to say, at the bottom of a cavern, philosophically making up his mind to this voluntary seclusion, which, h...
15. CHAPTER III.About a month had passed since the conclusion of the treaty between the Brazilians, the Guaycurus, and their allies of the Rincón del Bosquecillo. At the foot of a steep mountai...
21. CHAPTER IX.It was about three o'clock in the afternoon when Emile Gagnepain left the camp. Notwithstanding the rather suspicious escort by which he was accompanied, it was with a sigh of s...
13. CHAPTER I.It was about the middle of a southern summer; the heat during the whole day had been suffocating; the dust had covered the leaves of the trees with a thick layer of a greyish ti...
16. CHAPTER IV.The road, or rather the path followed by the troops mounted by an almost imperceptible slope, by risings of earth which serve, so to speak, as gigantic steps to the first chain...
20. CHAPTER VIII.On leaving the reception room, Emile Gagnepain proceeded to the _toldo_ occupied by the Marchioness de Castelmelhor and her daughter. In thus acting, the young man obeyed a pres...
9. CHAPTER VII.It is difficult to form an idea of the rapidity with which, bad news spreads--of the way in which it is disfigured in passing from mouth to mouth, constantly increasing, and fin...
23. CHAPTER XI.As soon as the reception had terminated, Don Pablo had offered to the Spanish envoys and to the Portuguese officer--that is to say, to Don Zeno Cabral, whom he was far from susp...
2. Book II--THE MONTONEROI. EL RINCÓN DEL BOSQUECILLO. II. THE TREATY. III. THE COUGAR. IV. THE TWO CHIEFS. V. THE ROYAL ARMY. VI. AT CASA-FRAMA. VII. THE INTERVIEW. VIII. THE TOLDO. IX. IN THE MOUNTAIN...
1. Book I--THE PINCHEYRASI. THE CALLEJÓN DE LAS CRUCES. II. THE LETTER. III. THE RECLUSES. IV. THE INTERVIEW. V. THE PREPARATIONS OF TYRO. VI. COMPLICATIONS. VII. THE PANIC. VIII. THE SOLITARY. IX. THE...