Category: Historical Novels
"Without a horse, and a dog, and a friend, man would perish. The Gods gave me all three, and there is no gift like friendship. Remember this . . . when you become a young man. For your fate will turn on the first true friend you make." RUDYARD KIPLING, _Puck of Pook's Hill_ ("...
"But in my terms of honour I stand aloof, and will no reconcilement, Till by some elder masters of known honour I have a voice and precedent of peace, To keep my name ungored."...
8. CHAPTER VI - THE ROAD TO THE BEECH TREE"Là-haut sur la montagne Il y a un pré; Les perdrix et les cailles Y vont chanter. J'ai pris mon arbalète, J'y suis allé; Croyant en tuer quatre, J'ai tout manqué. C'est le coeu...
3. CHAPTER III - IN THE DUST"I would not hear your enemy say so, Nor shall you do my ear that violence To make it truster of your own report Against yourself . . ." _Hamlet_, Act. 1, Sc. 2.
10. CHAPTER VIII - THE LOVE OF WOMENHow is it that the Fate who spins seems sometimes to take pleasure in falsifying, not only one's anticipations, but even one's apprehensions as to the pattern which her threads...
9. CHAPTER VII - THE ROAD BACKSo Laurent left the Bois des Fauvettes and woke, through the sense of hearing, to his actual surroundings. He shivered, and withdrew his hands from his face. Aymar, paler than h...
6. CHAPTER V - FREE--WITH A BROKEN WINGThe first moments of Laurent's grief were savage. He stood for some time at the window, his hands clenched together before him, his head against the grey panelling at the side,...
1. CHAPTER I - RUNNING WATER"Without a horse, and a dog, and a friend, man would perish. The Gods gave me all three, and there is no gift like friendship. Remember this . . . when you become a young man. F...
4. CHAPTER IV - THE CAPTIVE HAWK"Altho' his back be at the wa', Another was the fautor; Altho' his back be at the wa', Yet here's his health in water He gat the skaith, he gat the scorn, I lo'e him but the bet...
7. Chapter xxii--the famous and disturbing heading of the intermediate"But surely you can remember what the incident was?" persisted Aymar. "Come, now!" and he threw a pear on to the book, while the unwary Laurent, thankful at least to have got th...
5. Chapter xxii, and Laurent found himself reading these words in largeThey were only one of Goldsmith's sententious chapter-headings, but they might have been the inscription on Belshazzar's palace wall. Laurent was suddenly mesmerized, and remain...
2. CHAPTER II - "ROSES, ROSES ALL THE WAYIt is quite possible that Laurent de Courtomer did not miss Devonshire nearly as much as he had anticipated--not, at least, during those first weeks of excitement and fervour wh...
12. CHAPTER X - "SANS TACHE"Did he do right--did he do right to go?" Virginia de Courtomer asked herself, on this the ninth day after her son's departure. Yes, of course he had done right, but had he done...