# The Snowball

Author: Weyman, Stanley John, 1855-1928

Genre: Category: Historical Novels

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/39216

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Snowball+Weyman&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

The slight indisposition from which the Queen suffered in the spring of 1602, and which was occasioned by a cold caught during her lying-in, by diverting the King's attention from matters of State, had the effect of doubling the burden cast on my shoulders. Though the main threads of M. de Biron's conspiracy were in our hands as early as the month of November of the preceding year, and steps had been immediately taken to sound the chief associates by summoning them to court, an interval necessarily followed during which we had everything to fear; and this not only from the despair of the guilty, but from the timidity of the innocent who, in a court filled with cabals and rumors of intrigu...

## Chapters

- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-snowball-39216/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-snowball-39216/chapters/2/index.md)