# The pot of basil

Author: Capes, Bernard, 1854-1918

Genre: Category: Historical Novels

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/70265

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+pot+of+basil+Capes&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

It was a very hot day in Colorno, the petty Versailles of the Dukes of Parma. The little channels irrigating the plains all about, and drawn every one from the near depleted basin of the small river which a few miles northward ran into the Po, were spun as thin as silver wire. The effect from a distance was as of a network of snail-tracks, stiffened in a dry morning, and all making for the oasis of the village, where was to be found at least the shade of trees and gardens. Elsewhere there was little. The domains of Don Philip, wrote the Minister Maulevrier, _à propos_ some hounds “de toute beauté” presented to the duke by his devoted father-in-law, Louis XV., were no huntsman’s paradise,...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-pot-of-basil-70265/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-pot-of-basil-70265/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-pot-of-basil-70265/chapters/23/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-pot-of-basil-70265/chapters/20/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-pot-of-basil-70265/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-pot-of-basil-70265/chapters/19/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-pot-of-basil-70265/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXVI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-pot-of-basil-70265/chapters/26/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-pot-of-basil-70265/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-pot-of-basil-70265/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-pot-of-basil-70265/chapters/22/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-pot-of-basil-70265/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-pot-of-basil-70265/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-pot-of-basil-70265/chapters/17/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-pot-of-basil-70265/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-pot-of-basil-70265/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-pot-of-basil-70265/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXIX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-pot-of-basil-70265/chapters/29/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-pot-of-basil-70265/chapters/21/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-pot-of-basil-70265/chapters/25/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-pot-of-basil-70265/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXVII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-pot-of-basil-70265/chapters/27/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-pot-of-basil-70265/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXVIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-pot-of-basil-70265/chapters/28/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-pot-of-basil-70265/chapters/18/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-pot-of-basil-70265/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-pot-of-basil-70265/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXIV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-pot-of-basil-70265/chapters/24/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-pot-of-basil-70265/chapters/11/index.md)