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This Excellent Collection brings together Sabatini's longer, major books and a fine selection of shorter pieces and Naval Science-Fiction Books and Sea-Stories. This Books created and collected in Rafael Sabatini's Most important Works illuminate the life and work of one of the most individual writers of the XX century - a man who elevated political writing to an art.Rafael Sabatini (1875 – 1950) was an Italian-English writer of romance and adventure novels. He is best known for his worldwide bestsellers: The Sea Hawk (1915), Scaramouche (1921), Captain Blood (a.k.a. The Odyssey of Captain Blood) (1922), and Bellarion the Fortunate (1926). In all, Sabatini produced 34 novels, eight short story collections, six non-fiction books, numerous uncollected short stories, and several plays.This Collection included:CAPTAIN BLOOD SERIES· Captain Blood· Captain Blood Returns· The Fortunes of Captain BloodSCARAMOUCHE SERIES· Scaramouche· Scaramouche the King-MakerNOVELS· The Lovers of Yvonne· The Tavern Knight· Bardelys the Magnificent· The Trampling of the Lilies· Love-at-Arms· The Shame of Motley· St. Martin's Summer· Mistress Wilding· The Lion's Skin· The Strolling Saint· The Gates of Doom· The Sea Hawk· The Snare· Fortune's Fool· The Carolinian· Bellarion the Fortunate· The Nuptials of Corbal· The Hounds of God· The Romantic Prince· The King's Minion· The Black Swan· The Stalking Horse· Venetian Masque· Chivalry· The Lost King· The Sword of Islam· The Marquis of Carabas· Columbus· King in Prussia· The GamesterSHORT STORIES· The Justice of the Duke· The Banner of the Bull· Turbulent Tales· Other StoriesDRAMA· The TyrantHISTORICAL WORKS· The Life of Cesare Borgia· Torquemada and the Spanish Inquisition· The Historical Nights' Entertainment – First Series· The Historical Nights' Entertainment – Second Series· The Historical Nights' Entertainment – Third Series
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Table of Contents
About the Book & Author
CAPTAIN BLOOD SERIES
Captain Blood
CHAPTER I. THE MESSENGER
CHAPTER II. KIRKE'S DRAGOONS
CHAPTER III. THE LORD CHIEF JUSTICE
CHAPTER IV. HUMAN MERCHANDISE
CHAPTER V. ARABELLA BISHOP
CHAPTER VI. PLANS OF ESCAPE
CHAPTER VII. PIRATES
CHAPTER VIII. SPANIARDS
CHAPTER IX. THE REBELS-CONVICT
CHAPTER X. DON DIEGO
CHAPTER XI. FILIAL PIETY
CHAPTER XII. DON PEDRO SANGRE
CHAPTER XIII. TORTUGA
CHAPTER XIV. LEVASSEUR'S HEROICS
CHAPTER XV. THE RANSOM
CHAPTER XVI. THE TRAP
CHAPTER XVII. THE DUPES
CHAPTER XVIII. THE MILAGROSA
CHAPTER XIX. THE MEETING
CHAPTER XX. THIEF AND PIRATE
CHAPTER XXI. THE SERVICE OF KING JAMES
CHAPTER XXII. HOSTILITIES
CHAPTER XXIII. HOSTAGES
CHAPTER XXIV. WAR
CHAPTER XXV. THE SERVICE OF KING LOUIS
CHAPTER XXVI. M. de RIVAROL
CHAPTER XXVII. CARTAGENA
CHAPTER XXVIII. THE HONOUR OF M. DE RIVAROL
CHAPTER XXIX. THE SERVICE OF KING WILLIAM
CHAPTER XXX. THE LAST FIGHT OF THE ARABELLA
CHAPTER XXXI. HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR
Captain Blood Returns
The Fortunes of Captain Blood
SCARAMOUCHE SERIES
Scaramouche
BOOK I: THE ROBE
CHAPTER 1: THE REPUBLICAN
CHAPTER 2: THE ARISTOCRAT
CHAPTER 3: THE ELOQUENCE OF M. DE VILMORIN
CHAPTER 4: THE HERITAGE
CHAPTER 5: THE LORD OF GAVRILLAC
CHAPTER 6: THE WINDMILL
CHAPTER 7: THE WIND
CHAPTER 8: OMNES OMNIBUS
CHAPTER 9: THE AFTERMATH
BOOK II: THE BUSKIN
CHAPTER 1: THE TRESPASSERS
CHAPTER 2: THE SERVICE OF THESPIS
CHAPTER 3: THE COMIC MUSE
CHAPTER 4: EXIT MONSIEUR PARVISSIMUS
CHAPTER 5: ENTER SCARAMOUCHE
CHAPTER 6: CLIMENE
CHAPTER 7: THE CONQUEST OF NANTES
CHAPTER 8: THE DREAM
CHAPTER 9: THE AWAKENING
CHAPTER 10: CONTRITION
CHAPTER 11: THE FRACAS AT THE THEATRE FEYDAU
BOOK III: THE SWORD
CHAPTER 1: TRANSITION
CHAPTER 2: QUOS DEUS VULT PERDERE
CHAPTER 3: PRESIDENT LE CHAPELIER
CHAPTER 4: AT MEUDON
CHAPTER 5: MADAME DE PLOUGASTEL
CHAPTER 6: POLITICIANS
CHAPTER 7: THE SPADASSINICIDES
CHAPTER 8: THE PALADIN OF THE THIRD
CHAPTER 9: TORN PRIDE
CHAPTER 10: THE RETURNING CARRIAGE
CHAPTER 11: INFERENCES
CHAPTER 12: THE OVERWHELMING REASON
CHAPTER 13: SANCTUARY
CHAPTER 14: THE BARRIER
CHAPTER 15: SAFE-CONDUCT
CHAPTER 16: SUNRISE
Scaramouche the King-Maker
CHAPTER I: THE TRAVELLERS
CHAPTER II: SCHÖNBORNLUST
CHAPTER III: BARON DE BATZ
CHAPTER IV: THE REVOLUTIONARY
CHAPTER V: THE RESCUE
CHAPTER VI: THE APOLOGY
CHAPTER VII: MADAME DE BALBI
CHAPTER VIII: VALMY
CHAPTER IX: PROPOSAL
CHAPTER X: DISPOSAL
CHAPTER XI: THE SPLENDID FAILURE
CHAPTER XII: THE VULNERABLE POINT
CHAPTER XIII: DEPARTURE
CHAPTER XIV: MOLOCH
CHAPTER XV: PRELUDE
CHAPTER XVI: IN THE RUE CHARLOT
CHAPTER XVII: AT CHARONNE
CHAPTER XVIII: LANGÉAC'S REPORT
CHAPTER XIX: REPAYMENT
CHAPTER XX: MAMMON
CHAPTER XXI: THE TEMPTING OF CHABOT
CHAPTER XXII: BRIBERY
CHAPTER XXIII: THE BROTHERS FREY
CHAPTER XXIV: THE GENIUS OF D'ENTRAGUES
CHAPTER XXV: THE INTERDICT
CHAPTER XXVI: CHABOT TRIUMPHANT
CHAPTER XXVII: MATCHMAKING
CHAPTER XXVIII: LÉOPOLDINE
CHAPTER XXIX: THE BAIT
CHAPTER XXX: THE INDIA COMPANY
CHAPTER XXXI: GERMINATION
CHAPTER XXXII: UNMASKED
CHAPTER XXXIII: THE INCORRUPTIBLE
CHAPTER XXXIV: THORIN'S LETTER
CHAPTER XXXV: MESSENGERS
CHAPTER XXXVI: THE INTERRUPTION
CHAPTER XXXVII: THE CANDID MARQUIS
CHAPTER XXXVIII: THE CITIZEN-AGENT
CHAPTER XXXIX: EVIDENCE
CHAPTER XL: THE DOSSIER
CHAPTER XLI: THE THUNDERBOLT
CHAPTER XLII: PRINCELY GRATITUDE
CHAPTER XLIII: ON THE BRIDGE
CHAPTER XLIV: ACCOUNT RENDERED
CHAPTER XLV: BACK TO HAMM
NOVELS
THE LOVERS OF YVONNE
CHAPTER I. OF HOW A BOY DRANK TOO MUCH WINE, AND WHAT CAME OF IT
CHAPTER II. THE FRUIT OF INDISCRETION
CHAPTER III. THE FIGHT IN THE HORSE-MARKET
CHAPTER IV. FAIR RESCUERS
CHAPTER V. MAZARIN, THE MATCH-MAKER
CHAPTER VI. OF HOW ANDREA BECAME LOVE-SICK
CHAPTER VII. THE CHÂTEAU DE CANAPLES
CHAPTER VIII. THE FORESHADOW OF DISASTER
CHAPTER IX. OF HOW A WHIP PROVED A BETTER ARGUMENT THAN A TONGUE
CHAPTER X. THE CONSCIENCE OF MALPERTUIS
CHAPTER XI. OF A WOMAN'S OBSTINACY
CHAPTER XII. THE RESCUE
CHAPTER XIII. THE HAND OF YVONNE
CHAPTER XIV. OF WHAT BEFELL AT REAUX.
CHAPTER XV. OF MY RESURRECTION
CHAPTER XVI. THE WAY OF WOMAN
CHAPTER XVII. FATHER AND SON
CHAPTER XVIII. OF HOW I LEFT CANAPLES
CHAPTER XIX. OF MY RETURN TO PARIS
CHAPTER XX. OF HOW THE CHEVALIER DE CANAPLES BECAME A FRONDEUR
CHAPTER XXI. OF THE BARGAIN THAT ST. AUBAN DROVE WITH MY LORD CARDINAL
CHAPTER XXII. OF MY SECOND JOURNEY TO CANAPLES
CHAPTER XXIII. OF HOW ST. AUBAN CAME TO BLOIS
CHAPTER XXIV. OF THE PASSING OF ST. AUBAN
CHAPTER XXV. PLAY-ACTING
CHAPTER XXVI. REPARATION
THE TAVERN KNIGHT
CHAPTER I. ON THE MARCH
CHAPTER II. ARCADES AMBO
CHAPTER III. THE LETTER
CHAPTER IV. AT THE SIGN OF THE MITRE
CHAPTER V. AFTER WORCESTER FIELD
CHAPTER VI. COMPANIONS IN MISFORTUNE
CHAPTER VII. THE TAVERN KNIGHT'S STORY
CHAPTER VIII. THE TWISTED BAR
CHAPTER IX. THE BARGAIN
CHAPTER X. THE ESCAPE
CHAPTER XI. THE ASHBURNS
CHAPTER XII. THE HOUSE THAT WAS ROLAND MARLEIGH'S
CHAPTER XIII. THE METAMORPHOSIS OF KENNETH
CHAPTER XIV. THE HEART OF CYNTHIA ASHBURN
CHAPTER XV. JOSEPH'S RETURN
CHAPTER XVI. THE RECKONING
CHAPTER XVII. JOSEPH DRIVES A BARGAIN
CHAPTER XVIII. COUNTER-PLOT
CHAPTER XIX. THE INTERRUPTED JOURNEY
CHAPTER XX. THE CONVERTED HOGAN
CHAPTER XXI. THE MESSAGE KENNETH BORE
CHAPTER XXII. SIR CRISPIN'S UNDERTAKING
CHAPTER XXIII. GREGORY'S ATTRITION
CHAPTER XXIV. THE WOOING OF CYNTHIA
CHAPTER XXV. CYNTHIA'S FLIGHT
CHAPTER XXVI. TO FRANCE
CHAPTER XXVII. THE AUBERGE DU SOLEIL
BARDELYS THE MAGNIFICENT
CHAPTER I. THE WAGER
CHAPTER II. THE KING'S WISHES
CHAPTER III. RENE DE LESPERON
CHAPTER IV. A MAID IN THE MOONLIGHT
CHAPTER V. THE VICOMTE DE LAVEDAN
CHAPTER VI. IN CONVALESCENCE
CHAPTER VII. THE HOSTILITY OF SAINT-EUSTACHE
CHAPTER VIII. THE PORTRAIT
CHAPTER IX. A NIGHT ALARM
CHAPTER X. THE RISEN DEAD
CHAPTER XI. THE KING'S COMMISSIONER
CHAPTER XII. THE TRIBUNAL OF TOULOUSE
CHAPTER XIII. THE ELEVENTH HOUR
CHAPTER XIV. EAVESDROPPING
CHAPTER XV. MONSIEUR DE CHATELLERAULT IS ANGRY
CHAPTER XVI. SWORDS!
CHAPTER XVII. THE BABBLING OF GANYMEDE
CHAPTER XVIII. SAINT-EUSTACHE IS OBSTINATE
CHAPTER XIX. THE FLINT AND THE STEEL
CHAPTER XX. THE “BRAVI” AT BLAGNAC
CHAPTER XXI. LOUIS THE JUST
CHAPTER XXII. WE UNSADDLE
THE TRAMPLING OF THE LILIES
PART I. THE OLD RULE
CHAPTER I. MONSIEUR THE SECRETARY
CHAPTER II. LORDS OF LIFE AND DEATH
CHAPTER III. THE WORD OF BELLECOUR
CHAPTER IV. THE DISCIPLES OF ROUSSEAU
PART II. THE NEW RULE
CHAPTER V. THE SHEEP TURNED WOLVES
CHAPTER VI. THE CITIZEN COMMISSIONER
CHAPTER VII. LA BOULAYE DISCHARGES A DEBT
CHAPTER VIII. THE INVALIDS AT BOISVERT
CHAPTER IX. THE CAPTIVES
CHAPTER X. THE BAISER LAMOURETTE
CHAPTER XI. THE ESCAPE
CHAPTER XII. THE AWAKENING
CHAPTER XIII. THE ROAD TO LIEGE
CHAPTER XIV. THE COURIER
CHAPTER XV. LA BOULAYE BAITS HIS HOOK
PART III. THE EVERLASTING RULE
CHAPTER XVI. CECILE DESHAIX.
CHAPTER XVII. LA BOULAYE'S PROMISE
CHAPTER XVIII. THE INCORRUPTIBLE
CHAPTER XIX. THE THEFT
CHAPTER XX. THE GRATITUDE OF OMBREVAL
CHAPTER XXI. THE ARREST
CHAPTER XXII. THE TRIBUNAL
CHAPTER XXIII. THE CONCIERGERIE
LOVE-AT-ARMS
CHAPTER I. VOX POPULI
CHAPTER II. ON A MOUNTAIN PATH
CHAPTER III. SACKCLOTH AND MOTLEY
CHAPTER IV. MONNA VALENTINA
CHAPTER V. GIAN MARIA
CHAPTER VI. THE AMOROUS DUKE
CHAPTER VII. GONZAGA THE INSIDIOUS
CHAPTER VIII. AMONG THE DREGS OF WINE
CHAPTER IX. THE “TRATTA DI CORDE”
CHAPTER X. THE BRAYING OF AN ASS
CHAPTER XI. WANDERING KNIGHTS
CHAPTER XII. THE FOOL'S INQUISITIVENESS
CHAPTER XIII. GIAN MARIA MAKES A VOW
CHAPTER XIV. FORTEMANI DRINKS WATER
CHAPTER XV. THE MERCY OF FRANCESCO
CHAPTER XVI. GONZAGA UNMASKS
CHAPTER XVII. THE ENEMY
CHAPTER XVIII. TREACHERY
CHAPTER XIX. PLOT AND COUNTERPLOT
CHAPTER XX. THE LOVERS
CHAPTER XXI. THE PENITENT
CHAPTER XXII. A REVELATION
CHAPTER XXIII. IN THE ARMOURY TOWER
CHAPTER XXIV. THE INTERRUPTED MASS
CHAPTER XXV. THE CAPITULATION OF ROCCALEONE
THE SHAME OF MOTLEY
PART I. FLOWER OF THE QUINCE
CHAPTER I. THE CARDINAL OF VALENCIA
CHAPTER II. THE LIVERIES OF SANTAFIOR
CHAPTER III. MADONNA PAOLA
CHAPTER IV. THE COZENING OF RAMIRO
CHAPTER V. MADONNA'S INGRATITUDE
CHAPTER VI. FOOL'S LUCK
CHAPTER VII. THE SUMMONS FROM ROME
CHAPTER VIII. “MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN”
CHAPTER IX. THE FOOL-AT-ARMS
CHAPTER X. THE FALL OF PESARO
PART II. THE OGRE OF CESENA
CHAPTER XI. MADONNA'S SUMMONS
CHAPTER XII. THE GOVERNOR OF CESENA
CHAPTER XIII. POISON
CHAPTER XIV. REQUIESCAT!
CHAPTER XV. AN ILL ENCOUNTER
CHAPTER XVI. IN THE CITADEL OF CESENA
CHAPTER XVII. THE SENESCHAL
CHAPTER XVIII. THE LETTER
CHAPTER XIX. DOOMED
CHAPTER XX. THE SUNSET
CHAPTER XXI. AVE CAESAR!
ST. MARTIN'S SUMMER
CHAPTER I. THE SENESCHAL OF DAUPHINY
CHAPTER II. MONSIEUR DE GARNACHE
CHAPTER III. THE DOWAGER’S COMPLIANCE
CHAPTER IV. THE CHATEAU DE CONDILLAC
CHAPTER V. MONSIEUR DE GARNACHE LOSES HIS TEMPER
CHAPTER VI. MONSIEUR DE GARNACHE KEEPS HIS TEMPER
CHAPTER VII. THE OPENING OF THE TRAP
CHAPTER VIII. THE CLOSING OF THE TRAP
CHAPTER IX. THE SENESCHAL’S ADVICE
CHAPTER X. THE RECRUIT
CHAPTER XI. VALERIE’S GAOLER
CHAPTER XII. A MATTER OF CONSCIENCE
CHAPTER XIII. THE COURIER
CHAPTER XIV. FLORIMOND’S LETTER
CHAPTER XV. THE CONFERENCE
CHAPTER XVI. THE UNEXPECTED
CHAPTER XVII. HOW MONSIEUR DE GARNACHE LEFT CONDILLAC
CHAPTER XVIII. IN THE MOAT
CHAPTER XIX. THROUGH THE NIGHT
CHAPTER XX. FLORIMOND DE CONDILLAC
CHAPTER XXI. THE GHOST IN THE CUPBOARD
CHAPTER XXII. THE OFFICES OF MOTHER CHURCH
CHAPTER XXIII. THE JUDGMENT OF GARNACHE
CHAPTER XXIV. SAINT MARTIN’S EVE
MISTRESS WILDING
CHAPTER I. POT-VALIANCE
CHAPTER II. SIR ROWLAND TO THE RESCUE
CHAPTER III. DIANA SCHEMES
CHAPTER IV. TERMS OF SURRENDER
CHAPTER V. THE ENCOUNTER
CHAPTER VI. THE CHAMPION
CHAPTER VII. THE NUPTIALS OF RUTH WESTMACOTT
CHAPTER VIII. BRIDE AND GROOM
CHAPTER IX. MR. TRENCHARD'S COUNTERSTROKE
CHAPTER X. THEIR OWN PETARD
CHAPTER XI. THE MARPLOT
CHAPTER XII. AT THE FORD
CHAPTER XIII. “PRO RELIGIONE ET LIBERTATE”
CHAPTER XIV. HIS GRACE' IN COUNSEL
CHAPTER XV. LYME OF THE KING
CHAPTER XVI. PLOTS AND PLOTTERS
CHAPTER XVII. MR. WILDING'S RETURN
CHAPTER XVIII. BETRAYAL
CHAPTER XIX. THE BANQUET
CHAPTER XX. THE RECKONING
CHAPTER XXI. THE SENTENCE
CHAPTER XXII. THE EXECUTION
CHAPTER XXIII. MR. WILDING'S BOOTS
CHAPTER XXIV. JUSTICE
THE LION'S SKIN
CHAPTER I. THE FANATIC
CHAPTER II. AT THE “ADAM AND EVE”
CHAPTER III. THE WITNESS
CHAPTER IV. Mr. GREEN
CHAPTER V. MOONSHINE
CHAPTER VI. HORTENSIA'S RETURN
CHAPTER VII. FATHER AND SON
CHAPTER VIII. TEMPTATION
CHAPTER IX. THE CHAMPION
CHAPTER X. SPURS TO THE RELUCTANT
CHAPTER XI. THE ASSAULT-AT-ARMS
CHAPTER XII. SUNSHINE AND SHADOW
CHAPTER XIII. THE FORLORN HOPE
CHAPTER XIV. LADY OSTERMORE
CHAPTER XV. LOVE AND RAGE
CHAPTER XVI. MR. GREEN EXECUTES HIS WARRANT
CHAPTER XVII. AMID THE GRAVES
CHAPTER XVIII. THE GHOST OF THE PAST
CHAPTER XIX. THE END OF LORD OSTERMORE
CHAPTER XX. Mr. CARYLL'S IDENTITY
CHAPTER XXI. THE LION'S SKIN
CHAPTER XXII. THE HUNTERS
CHAPTER XXIII. THE LION
THE STROLLING SAINT
BOOK I. THE OBLATE
CHAPTER I. NOMEN ET OMEN
CHAPTER II. GINO FALCONE
CHAPTER III. THE PIETISTIC THRALL
CHAPTER IV. LUISINA
CHAPTER V. REBELLION
CHAPTER VI. FRA GERVASIO
BOOK II. GIULIANA
CHAPTER I. THE HOUSE OF ASTORRE FIFANTI.
CHAPTER II. HUMANITIES
CHAPTER III. PREUX-CHEVALIER
CHAPTER IV. MY LORD GAMBARA CLEARS THE GROUND
CHAPTER V. PABULUM ACHERONTIS
CHAPTER VI. THE IRON GIRDLE
BOOK III. THE WILDERNESS
CHAPTER I. THE HOME-COMING
CHAPTER II. THE CAPTAIN OF JUSTICE
CHAPTER III. GAMBARA'S INTERESTS
CHAPTER IV. THE ANCHORITE OF MONTE ORSARO
CHAPTER V. THE RENUNCIATION
CHAPTER VI. HYPNEROTOMACHIA
CHAPTER VII. INTRUDERS
CHAPTER VIII. THE VISION
CHAPTER IX. THE ICONOCLAST
BOOK IV. THE WORLD
CHAPTER I. PAGLIANO
CHAPTER II. THE GOVERNOR OF MILAN
CHAPTER III. PIER LUIGI FARNESE
CHAPTER IV. MADONNA BIANCA
CHAPTER V. THE WARNING
CHAPTER VI. THE TALONS OF THE HOLY OFFICE
CHAPTER VII. THE PAPAL BULL
CHAPTER VIII. THE THIRD DEGREE
CHAPTER IX. THE RETURN
CHAPTER X. THE NUPTIALS OF BIANCA
CHAPTER XI. THE PENANCE
CHAPTER XII. BLOOD
CHAPTER XIII. THE OVERTHROW
CHAPTER XIV. THE CITATION
CHAPTER XV. THE WILL OF HEAVEN
THE GATES OF DOOM
CHAPTER 1. THE PLAYERS
CHAPTER 2. THE GAME
CHAPTER 3. MR SECOND SECRETARY
CHAPTER 4. FATE'S AGENTS
CHAPTER 5. THE WARNING
CHAPTER 6. THE ENCHANTED GARDEN
CHAPTER 7. EVELYN'S CONSCIENCE
CHAPTER 8. AT "THE WORLD'S END"
CHAPTER 9. THE ALIBI
CHAPTER 10. TWO LETTERS
CHAPTER 11. PAUNCEFORT'S MOVE
CHAPTER 12. NATURE TRIUMPHANT
CHAPTER 13. IN THE ROSE-GARDEN
CHAPTER 14. THE ROAD TO TYBURN
CHAPTER 15. EXECUTION
CHAPTER 16. RESURRECTION
CHAPTER 17. PAUNCEFORT THE SOWER
CHAPTER 18. IN CHECK
CHAPTER 19. THE CAPTAIN GOES INTO ACTION
CHAPTER 20. MR TEMPLETON IN RETIREMENT
CHAPTER 21. LORD CARTERET UNDERSTANDS
CHAPTER 22. ISRAEL SUAREZ
CHAPTER 23. THE LAST THROW
THE SEA HAWK
AUTHOR’S NOTE
PART I. SIR OLIVER TRESSILIAN
CHAPTER I. THE HUCKSTER
CHAPTER II. ROSAMUND
CHAPTER III. THE FORGE
CHAPTER IV. THE INTERVENER
CHAPTER V. THE BUCKLER
CHAPTER VI. JASPER LEIGH
CHAPTER VII. TREPANNED
CHAPTER VIII. THE SPANIARD
PART II. SAKR-EL-BAHR
CHAPTER I. THE CAPTIVE
CHAPTER II. THE RENEGADE
CHAPTER III. HOMEWARD BOUND
CHAPTER IV. THE RAID
CHAPTER V. THE LION OF THE FAITH
CHAPTER VI. THE CONVERT
CHAPTER VII. MARZAK-BEN-ASAD
CHAPTER VIII. MOTHER AND SON
CHAPTER IX. COMPETITORS
CHAPTER X. THE SLAVE-MARKET
CHAPTER XI. THE TRUTH
CHAPTER XII. THE SUBTLETY OF FENZILEH
CHAPTER XIII. IN THE SIGHT OF ALLAH
CHAPTER XIV. THE SIGN
CHAPTER XV. THE VOYAGE
CHAPTER XVI. THE PANNIER
CHAPTER XVII. THE DUPE
CHAPTER XVIII. SHEIK MAT
CHAPTER XIX. THE MUTINEERS
CHAPTER XX. THE MESSENGER
CHAPTER XXI. MORITURUS
CHAPTER XXII. THE SURRENDER
CHAPTER XXIII. THE HEATHEN CREED
CHAPTER XXIV. THE JUDGES
CHAPTER XXV. THE ADVOCATE
CHAPTER XXVI. THE JUDGMENT
THE SNARE
CHAPTER I. THE AFFAIR AT TAVORA
CHAPTER II. THE ULTIMATUM
CHAPTER III. LADY O’MOY
CHAPTER IV. COUNT SAMOVAL
CHAPTER V. THE FUGITIVE
CHAPTER VI. MISS ARMYTAGE’S PEARLS
CHAPTER VII. THE ALLY
CHAPTER VIII. THE INTELLIGENCE OFFICER
CHAPTER IX. THE GENERAL ORDER
CHAPTER X. THE STIFLED QUARREL
CHAPTER XI. THE CHALLENGE
CHAPTER XII. THE DUEL
CHAPTER XIII. POLICHINELLE
CHAPTER XIV. THE CHAMPION
CHAPTER XV. THE WALLET
CHAPTER XVI. THE EVIDENCE
CHAPTER XVII. BITTER WATER
CHAPTER XVIII. FOOL’S MATE
CHAPTER XIX. THE TRUTH
CHAPTER XX. THE RESIGNATION
CHAPTER XXI. SANCTUARY
POSTSCRIPTUM
FORTUNE'S FOOL
CHAPTER I: THE HOSTESS OF THE PAUL’S HEAD
CHAPTER II: ALBEMARLE’S ANTECHAMBER
CHAPTER III: HIS GRACE OF ALBEMARLE
CHAPTER IV: CHERRY BLOSSOMS
CHAPTER V: THE MERCENARY
CHAPTER VI: MR. ETHEREDGE PRESCRIBES
CHAPTER VII: THE PRUDE
CHAPTER VIII: MR. ETHEREDGE ADVISES
CHAPTER IX: ALBEMARLE PROPOSES
CHAPTER X: BUCKINGHAM DISPOSES
CHAPTER XI: A WOMAN SCORNED
CHAPTER XII: BUCKINGHAM’S HEROICS
CHAPTER XIII: BUCKINGHAM’S GRATITUDE
CHAPTER XIV: DESPAIR
CHAPTER XV: THE SHADOW OF THE GALLOWS
CHAPTER XVI: THE SEDAN-CHAIR
CHAPTER XVII: THE ABDUCTION
CHAPTER XVIII: THE PARLEY
CHAPTER XIX: THE BATTLE
CHAPTER XX: THE CONQUEROR
CHAPTER XXI: UNDER THE RED CROSS
CHAPTER XXII: THE CRISIS
CHAPTER XXIII: THE WALLS OF PRIDE
CHAPTER XXIV: EVASION
CHAPTER XXV: HOME
CHAPTER XXVI: THE DEAD-CART
CHAPTER XXVII: THE PEST-HOUSE
CHAPTER XXVIII: JESTING FORTUNE
CHAPTER XXIX: THE MIRACLE
THE CAROLINIAN
PART I
CHAPTER I: TWO LETTERS
CHAPTER II: CHENEY
CHAPTER III: THE GOVERNOR OF SOUTH CAROLINA
CHAPTER IV: FAIRGROVE
CHAPTER V: THE REBEL
CHAPTER VI: THE DECEPTION
CHAPTER VII: MANDEVILLE AS MACHIAVEL
CHAPTER VIII: DEVIL'S ADVOCATE
CHAPTER IX: TAR AND FEATHERS
CHAPTER X: THE MAIL-BAG
CHAPTER XI: STALEMATE
CHAPTER XII: REVELATION
CHAPTER XIII: DEA EX MACHINA
CHAPTER XIV: THE SOLUTION
CHAPTER XV: THE NUPTIALS
CHAPTER XVI: THE CHAPLAIN OF THE TAMAR
CHAPTER XVII: GROCKAT'S WHARF
CHAPTER XVIII: THE PISTOL-SHOT
PART II
CHAPTER I: MARRIAGE
CHAPTER II: FORT SULLIVAN
CHAPTER III: SEVERANCE
CHAPTER IV: GOVERNOR RUTLEDGE
CHAPTER V: JONATHAN NEILD
CHAPTER VI: PREVOST'S ADVANCE
CHAPTER VII: RUTLEDGE'S NERVES
CHAPTER VIII: THE SPY
CHAPTER IX: THE LIE CONFIRMED
CHAPTER X: CONCERNING TOBACCO
CHAPTER XI: VIA CRUCIS
CHAPTER XII: THE TEST
CHAPTER XIII: THE STRATEGY OF RUTLEDGE
CHAPTER XIV: THE ARREST
CHAPTER XV: THE AWAKENING
CHAPTER XVI: THE INQUIRY
CHAPTER XVII: JUDGMENT
CHAPTER XVIII: RECONCILIATION
BELLARION THE FORTUNATE
BOOK I
CHAPTER I: THE THRESHOLD
CHAPTER II: THE GREY FRIAR
CHAPTER III: THE DOOR AJAR
CHAPTER IV: SANCTUARY
CHAPTER V: THE PRINCESS
CHAPTER VI: THE WINDS OF FATE
CHAPTER VII: SERVICE
CHAPTER VIII: STALEMATE
CHAPTER IX: THE MARQUIS THEODORE
CHAPTER X: THE WARNING
CHAPTER XI: UNDER SUSPICION
CHAPTER XII: COUNT SPIGNO
CHAPTER XIII: THE TRIAL
CHAPTER XIV: EVASION
BOOK II
CHAPTER I: THE MIRACLE OF THE DOGS
CHAPTER II: FACINO CANE
CHAPTER III: THE COUNTESS OF BIANDRATE
CHAPTER IV: THE CHAMPION
CHAPTER V: THE COMMUNE OF MILAN
CHAPTER VI: THE FRUITLESS WOOING
CHAPTER VII: MANŒUVRES
CHAPTER VIII: THE BATTLE OF TRAVO
CHAPTER IX: DE MORTUIS
CHAPTER X: THE KNIGHT BELLARION
CHAPTER XI: THE SIEGE OF ALESSANDRIA
CHAPTER XII: VISCONTI FAITH
CHAPTER XIII: THE VICTUALLERS
CHAPTER XIV: THE MULETEER
CHAPTER XV: THE CAMISADE
CHAPTER XVI: SEVERANCE
CHAPTER XVII: THE RETURN
CHAPTER XVIII: THE HOSTAGE
BOOK III
CHAPTER I: THE LORD BELLARION
CHAPTER II: THE BATTLE OF NOVI
CHAPTER III: FACINO’S RETURN
CHAPTER IV: THE COUNT OF PAVIA
CHAPTER V: JUSTICE
CHAPTER VI: THE INHERITANCE
CHAPTER VII: PRINCE OF VALSASSINA
CHAPTER VIII: CARMAGNOLA’S BRIDGES
CHAPTER IX: VERCELLI
CHAPTER X: THE ARREST
CHAPTER XI: THE PLEDGE
CHAPTER XII: CARMAGNOLA’S DUTY
CHAPTER XIII: THE OCCUPATION OF CASALE
CHAPTER XIV: THE VANQUISHED
CHAPTER XV: THE LAST FIGHT
THE NUPTIALS OF CORBAL
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
CHAPTER X
CHAPTER XI
THE HOUNDS OF GOD
CHAPTER I: THE MISANTHROPE
CHAPTER II: THE LOVER
CHAPTER III: IN CALAIS ROADS
CHAPTER IV: SIR GERVASE
CHAPTER V: FLOTSAM
CHAPTER VI: SURRENDER
CHAPTER VII: MARGARET'S PRISONER
CHAPTER VIII: DON PEDRO'S LETTER
CHAPTER IX: THE ASSAULT-AT-ARMS
CHAPTER X: THE RANSOM
CHAPTER XI: THE DEPARTURE
CHAPTER XII: THE SECRETARY OF STATE
CHAPTER XIII: THE QUEEN
CHAPTER XIV: FREY LUIS
CHAPTER XV: SCYLLA
CHAPTER XVI: CHARYBDIS
CHAPTER XVII: THE HOLY OFFICE
CHAPTER XVIII: DOMINI CANES
CHAPTER XIX: PHILIP II
CHAPTER XX: THE KING'S CONSCIENCE
CHAPTER XXI: THE CARDINAL'S CONSCIENCE
CHAPTER XXII: THE ROYAL CONFESSOR
CHAPTER XXIII: THE AUTO DE FÉ
CHAPTER XXIV: RECOGNITION
THE ROMANTIC PRINCE
CHAPTER I: ON THE SUBJECT OF POETS
CHAPTER II: SEVERANCE
CHAPTER III: THE INDISCREET ZEALANDER
CHAPTER IV: THE SURETY
CHAPTER V: THE UNFOLDING OF THE SCROLL
CHAPTER VI: JOHANNA
CHAPTER VII: FRIAR STEPHEN
CHAPTER VIII: THE INTERRUPTION
CHAPTER IX: THE RETURN
CHAPTER X: THE KNIGHT OF THE TULIP
CHAPTER XI: BETROTHAL
CHAPTER XII: THE WIFE OF PHILIP DANVELT
CHAPTER XIII: PÉRONNE
CHAPTER XIV: CHECKMATE
CHAPTER XV: THE SEDITION IN WALCHEREN
CHAPTER XVI: DANVELT’S ARREST
CHAPTER XVII: THE FOOL’S PHILOSOPHY
CHAPTER XVIII: RHYNSAULT’S WOOING
CHAPTER XIX: THE FOOL ADVISES
CHAPTER XX: RHYNSAULT’S BUCKLER
CHAPTER XXI: IPHIGENIA
CHAPTER XXII: THE CHEAT
CHAPTER XXIII: CAMP AND COURT
CHAPTER XXIV: GRAND MASTER OF BURGUNDY
CHAPTER XXV: THE PETITIONER
CHAPTER XXVI: THE FOOL’S MISSION
CHAPTER XXVII: THE MEMORIAL
CHAPTER XXVIII: MARRIAGE BY PROXY
CHAPTER XXIX: JUDGMENT
CHAPTER XXX: BANISHMENT
CHAPTER XXXI: REALITIES
THE KING'S MINION
CHAPTER I: IN THE TILT-YARD
CHAPTER II: THE RISING SUN
CHAPTER III: THOMAS OVERBURY
CHAPTER IV: THE BOND
CHAPTER V: LADY ESSEX
CHAPTER VI: VENERY AND TENNIS
CHAPTER VII: PREFERMENT
CHAPTER VIII: IMPORTUNATE WOOERS
CHAPTER IX: MRS. TURNER
CHAPTER X: METHEGLIN
CHAPTER XI: MAGIC
CHAPTER XII: SCANDAL
CHAPTER XIII: AT AUDLEY END
CHAPTER XIV: THE EARL OF ESSEX
CHAPTER XV: ULTIMATUM
CHAPTER XVI: NECROMANCY
CHAPTER XVII: CONSTRAINT
CHAPTER XVIII: THE COMEDY AT CHARTLEY
CHAPTER XIX: CAPITULATION
CHAPTER XX: THE ALARM
CHAPTER XXI: SIR DAVID WOOD
CHAPTER XXII: THE QUARREL
CHAPTER XXIII: THE TRAP
CHAPTER XXIV: TEMPTATION
CHAPTER XXV: THE BISHOP'S MOVE
CHAPTER XXVI: THE KING'S MOVE
CHAPTER XXVII: MARRIAGE
CHAPTER XXVIII: MR. VILLIERS
CHAPTER XXIX: GATHERING CLOUDS
CHAPTER XXX: THE AVALANCHE
CHAPTER XXXI: VALEDICTION
CHAPTER XXXII: PRELUDE
CHAPTER XXXIII: THE AMBASSADOR
CHAPTER XXXIV: THE MERCY OF KING JAMES
THE BLACK SWAN
CHAPTER 1. FORTUNE AND MAJOR SANDS
CHAPTER 2. MONSIEUR DE BERNIS
CHAPTER 3. BRANSOME'S PRAYER
CHAPTER 4. THE PURSUIT
CHAPTER 5. BOARD AND BOARD
CHAPTER 6. THE PARTNERSHIP
CHAPTER 7. TOPGALLANT
CHAPTER 8. IN COMMAND
CHAPTER 9. INTERLUDE
CHAPTER 10. CAREENED
CHAPTER 11. ASHORE
CHAPTER 12. THE GUARDIAN
CHAPTER 13. LACRIMAE RERUM
CHAPTER 14. THE NYMPH AND THE SATYR
CHAPTER 15. PEARLS
CHAPTER 16. THE APPLE OF DISCORD
CHAPTER 17. TEMPTATION
CHAPTER 18. THE ASSAULT-AT-ARMS
CHAPTER 19. THE HEAD OF TOM LEACH
CHAPTER 20. SIR HENRY MORGAN
CHAPTER 21. THE SURRENDER
CHAPTER 22. THE MADNESS OF PRISCILLA
THE STALKING HORSE
CHAPTER 1. LADY LOCHMORE
CHAPTER 2. GLENCOE
CHAPTER 3. INVERNAION
CHAPTER 4. THE END OF LOCHMORE
CHAPTER 5. REJECTION
CHAPTER 6. THE ASSASSINATION PLOT
CHAPTER 7. THE AFTERMATH
CHAPTER 8. MONSIEUR DE FA RUE
CHAPTER 9. INVERNAION'S RAIDS
CHAPTER 10. COLONEL WALTON'S LEAVE-TAKING
CHAPTER 11. THE BEGGAR ON HORSEBACK
CHAPTER 12. COLONEL WALTON UNPACKS
CHAPTER 13. THE TEMPTER
CHAPTER 14. EMPLOYMENT
CHAPTER 15. THE PLOT
CHAPTER 16. VAIN REMONSTRANCES
CHAPTER 17. THE WRATH OF GLENLEVEN
CHAPTER 18. THE ENCOUNTER
CHAPTER 19. THE AVOWAL
CHAPTER 20. BETRAYAL
CHAPTER 21. THE TRAP
CHAPTER 22. THE ACCREDITED AGENT
CHAPTER 23. THE SOD OF DUDLEY WALTON
VENETIAN MASQUE
CHAPTER I: THE WHITE CROSS INN
CHAPTER II: DEAD MAN'S SHOES
CHAPTER III: THE DISPATCH-CASE
CHAPTER IV: THE AMBASSADOR OF FRANCE
CHAPTER V: THE AMBASSADOR OF BRITAIN
CHAPTER VI: CASA PIZZAMANO
CHAPTER VII: LEONARDO VENDRAMIN
CHAPTER VIII: THE LADY IN THE MASK
CHAPTER IX: HIS SERENITY
CHAPTER X: FARO
CHAPTER XI: THE GRAND COUNCIL
CHAPTER XII: THE VICOMTESSE
CHAPTER XIII: THE ULTIMATUM
CHAPTER XIV: JUSTIFICATION
CHAPTER XV: THE CHOICE
CHAPTER XVI: THE DRAGON'S EYE
CHAPTER XVII: THE MEETING
CHAPTER XVIII: THE BRIDGE OF SAN MOISÉ
CHAPTER XIX: THE SHIELD
CHAPTER XX: THE GALLED JADE
CHAPTER XXI: THE DIPLOMATS
CHAPTER XXII: ARCOLA AND RIVOLI
CHAPTER XXIII: THE CITIZEN VILLETARD
CHAPTER XXIV: EMANCIPATION
CHAPTER XXV: THE WARNING
CHAPTER XXVI: THE PURSUERS
CHAPTER XXVII: HONOUR VINDICATED
CHAPTER XXVIII: QUESTIONS
CHAPTER XXIX: STORM-CLOUDS
CHAPTER XXX: CONSTRAINT
CHAPTER XXXI: THE QUEST
CHAPTER XXXII: THE INQUISITORS OF STATE
CHAPTER XXXIII: CASUS BELLI
CHAPTER XXXIV: VENDRAMIN'S LAST CARD
CHAPTER XXXV: THE HERO OF THE LIDO
CHAPTER XXXVI: DELIVERANCE
CHAPTER XXXVII: THE ORDER OF RELEASE
CHAPTER XXXVIII: DISCOVERY
CHAPTER XXXIX: DEPARTURE
CHIVALRY
CHAPTER I: THE LADY OF ROVIETO
CHAPTER II: THE LADY LACKLAND
CHAPTER III: THE LADY OF RAVENNA
CHAPTER IV: THE LADY OF OTTAVIO MORO
CHAPTER V: THE LADY OF LA BOURDONNAYE
CHAPTER VI: THE LADY OF CANTALUPO
CHAPTER VII: THE LADY OF SQUILLANTI
CHAPTER VIII: THE LADY PARAMOUNT
THE LOST KING
PART I
CHAPTER I. HIS MAJESTY
CHAPTER II. JEAN DE BATZ
CHAPTER III. JOSEPH FOUCHÉ
CHAPTER IV. THE SEDUCTION OF CHAUMETTE
CHAPTER V. THE PUPPET-MASTER
CHAPTER VI. THE HAND-CART
CHAPTER VII. THE KIDNAPPERS
CHAPTER VIII. FAREWELL TO ART
CHAPTER IX. PURSUIT
CHAPTER X. LAKE LÉMAN
PART II.
CHAPTER I. THE FREIHERR VOM STEIN
CHAPTER II. THE HEIR TO THE LILIES
CHAPTER III. THE COUNTERFEITER
CHAPTER V. THE KING-MAKER
CHAPTER VI. PASSAVANT
CHAPTER VII. PLEDGES
PART III.
CHAPTER I. THE DUKE OF OTRANTO
CHAPTER II. ENTER THE KING
CHAPTER III. ANXIETIES OF MONSIEUR DE SCEAUX
CHAPTER IV. SYMPTOMS
CHAPTER V. EXIT MONSIEUR DE SCEAUX
CHAPTER VI. THE IMPOSTOR
CHAPTER VII. BROTHER AND SISTER
CHAPTER VIII. THE KEY
CHAPTER IX. PAULINE
CHAPTER X. INVENTIONS OF MONSIEUR DE SCEAUX
CHAPTER XI. RE-ENTER MONSIEUR DE SCEAUX
CHAPTER XII. THE DUPE
CHAPTER XIII. ON TRIAL
CHAPTER XIV. SACRED DUTY
CHAPTER XV. AVE ATQUE VALE
CHAPTER XVI. THE MAN OF THE CIRCUMSTANCES
THE SWORD OF ISLAM
I. THE AUTHOR OF THE LIGURIAD
II. THE DOGE
III. SURRENDER
IV. THE CASTELLETTO
V. THE BATTLE OF AMALFI
VI. THE PRISONER
VII. AT LERICI
VIII. THE CITY OF DEATH
IX. THE GARDEN OF LIFE
X. WATERS OF LETHE
XI. PROCIDA
XII. THE AMEND
XIII. MOTHER AND SON
XIV. SCIPIONE DE’ FIESCHI
XV. THE ADORNO HONOUR
XVI. THE CHOICE
XVII. CHERCHELL
XVIII. DRAGUT’S PRISONER
XIX. MONNA AURELIA’S INDISCRETION
XX. THE HOMECOMING
XXI. EXPLANATION
XXII. THE WAY OUT
XXIII. CAPTURE
XXIV. A PRIZE FOR SULEYMAN
XXV. THE TRAP
XXVI. THE PLAN
XXVII. THE REUNION
XXVIII. AT A VENTURE
XXIX. THE RETURN
XXX. REPARATION
XXXI. MARS ULTOR
XXXII. THE BATTLE OF CAPE MOLA
XXXIII. THE REHABILITATION OF AN EMPEROR
XXXIV. THE DISCOVERY
XXXV. THE LAST HOPE
XXXVI. THE INVESTITURE
THE MARQUIS OF CARABAS
BOOK ONE
CHAPTER ONE: MASTER-AT-ARMS
CHAPTER TWO: MADEMOISELLE DE CHESNIÈRES
CHAPTER THREE: HE BROTHERS
CHAPTER FOUR: THE HERITAGE
CHAPTER FIVE: THE ACKNOWLEDGMENT
CHAPTER SIX: MONSIEUR DE PUISAYE
CHAPTER SEVEN: THE SAFE-CONDUCT
CHAPTER EIGHT: THE CLAIM
CHAPTER NINE: THE HOME-COMING
CHAPTER TEN: MADAME DE BELLANGER
CHAPTER ELEVEN: LAZARE HOCHE
CHAPTER TWELVE: DEPARTURE
CHAPTER THIRTEEN: BOISGELIN
CHAPTER FOURTEEN: BOISHARDI
CHAPTER FIFTEEN: THE CHOUANS
BOOK TWO
CHAPTER ONE: THE RETURN
CHAPTER TWO: THE TRUST
CHAPTER THREE: THE SECOND JOURNEY
CHAPTER FOUR: IN POSSESSION
CHAPTER FIVE: THE WARNING
CHAPTER SIX: THE ASSAULT
CHAPTER SEVEN: INFERENCES
CHAPTER EIGHT: LA PREVALAYE
CHAPTER NINE: THE RESCUE
CHAPTER TEN: THE THANKS
BOOK THREE
CHAPTER ONE: D’HERVILLY’S COMMAND
CHAPTER TWO: THE RAT-TRAP
CHAPTER THREE: DALLIANCE
CHAPTER FOUR: MUTINY
CHAPTER FIVE: GROUCHY’S DIVISION
CHAPTER SIX: BELLANGER IN COMMAND
CHAPTER SEVEN: THE DUPES
CHAPTER EIGHT: THE DISASTER
CHAPTER NINE: THE COURT MARTIAL
CHAPTER TEN: THE AVENGER
CHAPTER ELEVEN: MARGOT’S CHILD
CHAPTER TWELVE: FULFILMENT
COLUMBUS
CHAPTER I: THE WAYFARER
CHAPTER II: THE PRIOR OF LA RABIDA
CHAPTER III: THE SPONSOR
CHAPTER IV: THE NEGLECTED SUITOR
CHAPTER V: THE DOGE
CHAPTER VI: LA GITANILLA
CHAPTER VII: INQUISITORS OF STATE
CHAPTER VIII: BROTHER AND SISTER
CHAPTER IX: THE DECOY
CHAPTER X: THE RESCUE
CHAPTER XI: THE AGENTS
CHAPTER XII: AT ZAGARTE’S
CHAPTER XIII: IN THE WEB
CHAPTER XIV: RE-ENTER DON RAMON
CHAPTER XV: THE LEGACY
CHAPTER XVI: THE EVE OF CORPUS CHRISTI
CHAPTER XVII: CORPUS CHRISTI
CHAPTER XVIII: THE JUNTA
CHAPTER XIX: THE REPORT
CHAPTER XX: THE GIPSIES
CHAPTER XXI: THE MARCHIONESS
CHAPTER XXII: REHABILITATION
CHAPTER XXIII: THE CUP OF TRIBULATION
CHAPTER XXIV: THE FLIGHT
CHAPTER XXV: TERMS
CHAPTER XXVI: THE SEAMEN OF PALOS
CHAPTER XXVII: DEPARTURE
CHAPTER XXVIII: THE VOYAGE
CHAPTER XXIX: THE ORDEAL
CHAPTER XXX: THE LANDFALL
CHAPTER XXXI: THE DISCOVERY
CHAPTER XXXII: MARTIN ALONSO
CHAPTER XXXIII: HOMEWARD BOUND
CHAPTER XXXIV: THE HOMECOMING
CHAPTER XXXV: THE RETURN OF PABLO
CHAPTER XXXVI: TE DEUM
CHAPTER XXXVII: THE ZENITH
CHAPTER XXXVIII: SATISFACTION
KING IN PRUSSIA
BOOK I: THE PRINCE
CHAPTER I: DOMESTIC SCENE
CHAPTER II: THE FORTUNES OF ALVERLEY
CHAPTER III: DOROTHEA
CHAPTER IV: THE CHAMPION
CHAPTER V: THE TABAGIE
CHAPTER VI: FOREBODINGS
CHAPTER VII: THE PLOT
CHAPTER VIII: THE DISCOVERY
CHAPTER IX: THE ARREST
CHAPTER X: THE CHAPLAIN OF CÜSTRIN
CHAPTER XI: ANXIETIES
CHAPTER XII: KATTE’S DESK
CHAPTER XIII: PERIL
CHAPTER XIV: EMOTIONS OF DOROTHEA
CHAPTER XV: COLONEL FREDERICK
CHAPTER XVI: FLIGHT
CHAPTER XVII: THE FUGITIVES
CHAPTER XVIII: WITTENBERG
CHAPTER XIX: PRIETSCH
CHAPTER XX: CÜSTRIN
BOOK II: THE KING
CHAPTER I: THE AMORIST
CHAPTER II: THE EDICT
CHAPTER III: CARDINAL FLEURY
CHAPTER IV: THE RETURN
CHAPTER V: CHARLOTTENBURG
CHAPTER VI: STATECRAFT
CHAPTER VII: THE MASKED BALL
CHAPTER VIII: PANDORA’S BOX
CHAPTER IX: MOLLWITZ
CHAPTER X: KLEIN-SCHELLENDORF
CHAPTER XI: THE CARDINAL’S MESSAGE
CHAPTER XII: SOUNDINGS
CHAPTER XIII: THE EVENTFUL DAY
CHAPTER XIV: THE MESSENGER
CHAPTER XV: CALAMITY
CHAPTER XVI: THE LAST AUDIENCE
THE GAMESTER
CHAPTER I: DEATH OF A KING
CHAPTER II: THE REGENT IN COUNCIL
CHAPTER III: THE EARL OF STAIR
CHAPTER IV: MR. LAW’S BANK
CHAPTER V: EXTREME-UNCTION
CHAPTER VI: THE COUNT OF HORN
CHAPTER VII: WARNINGS
CHAPTER VIII: INVITATIONS
CHAPTER IX: THE GAMBIE STOCK
CHAPTER X: THE PLOTTERS
CHAPTER XI: THE COUNTESS OF HORN
CHAPTER XII: THE BED OF JUSTICE
CHAPTER XIII: TREASONABLE PRACTICES
CHAPTER XIV: ADVENTURES OF CATHERINE
CHAPTER XV: THE ROYAL BANK
CHAPTER XVI: RE-ENTER DON PABLO
CHAPTER XVII: CELLAMARE’S SATCHEL
CHAPTER XVIII: THE LETTER
CHAPTER XIX: THE HONOUR OF THE COUNT OF HORN
CHAPTER XX: THE PUBLIC DEBT
CHAPTER XXI: THE GOAD
CHAPTER XXII: REVELATION
CHAPTER XXIII: THE ZENITH
CHAPTER XXIV: MURDER
CHAPTER XXV: THE WHEEL
CHAPTER XXVI: FAREWELL
CHAPTER XXVII: MUTTERINGS OF THE STORM
CHAPTER XXVIII: CATASTROPHE
CHAPTER XXIX: THE NADIR
CHAPTER XXX: THE PASSPORT
SHORT STORIES
THE JUSTICE OF THE DUKE
1. THE HONOUR OF VARANO
2. THE TEST
3. FERRANTE'S JEST
4. GISMONDI'S WAGE
5. THE SNARE
6. THE LUST OF CONQUEST
7. THE PASQUINADE
THE BANNER OF THE BULL
I. THE URBINIAN
II. THE PERUGIAN
III. '’'THE VENETIAN'’'
TURBULENT TALES
THE KNEELING CUPID
BY ANCIENT CUSTOM
THE SCAPULARY
THE REMEDY
THE CONSTABLE OF CHARD
THE CATCHPOLL
LOADED DICES
CASANOVA’S ALIBI
THE OPEN DOOR
THE LORD OF TIME
THE DEATH-MASK
THE ALCHEMICAL EGG
THE GHOST OF TRONJOLLY
THE LUCK OF CAPOULADE
THE PASSPORT
THE RECOIL
OTHER STORIES
THE RED MASK
THE CURATE AND THE ACTRESS
THE FOOL'S LOVE STORY
CHAPTER 1
CHAPTER 2
CHAPTER 3
THE SACRIFICE
THE SPIRITUALIST
MR. DEWBURY'S CONSENT
THE BAKER OF ROUSILLON
WIRGMAN'S THEORY
THE ABDUCTION
MONSIEUR DELAMORT
THE FOSTER LOVER
THE BLACKMAILER
THE JUSTICE OF THE DUKE
THE ORDEAL
THE TAPESTRIED ROOM
THE WEDDING GIFT
THE CAMISADE
IN DESTINY'S CLUTCH
CHAPTER I: CORSAIR OF THE SEAS
CHAPTER II: WINDS OF DESTINY
CHAPTER III: WHEN THE GALLEYS CAME
CHAPTER IV: "BETIDE WHAT MAY"
CHAPTER V: REALLY SIMPLE.
CHAPTER VI: THAT IMPUDENT GENOESE
THE KINGS MESSENGER
THE VICOMTE'S WAGER
SWORD AND MITRE
THE DUPES
THE MALEDICTION
THE RED OWL
OUT OF THE DICE BOX
THE MARQUIS' COACH
TOMMY
THE LOTTERY TICKET
THE DUELLIST'S WIFE
THE DUCAL RIVAL
THE SIEGE OF SAVIGNY
THE LOCKET
THE DEVOURER OF HEARTS
THE METAMORPHOSIS OF COLIN
ANNABEL'S WAGER
THE CAPTAIN OF THE GUARD
THE COPY HUNTER
THE ACT OF SEQUESTRATION
GISMONDI'S WAGE
PLAYING WITH FIRE
THE SCOURGE
INTELLIGENCE
THE NIGHT OF DOOM
THE DRIVER OF THE HEARSE
THE PLAGUE OF GHOSTS
THE RISEN DEAD
THE BARGAIN
KYNASTON'S RECKONING
DUROC
THE POACHERS
THE OPPORTUNIST
THE SENTIMENTALIST
JACK O'LANTERN
THE AUGMENTATION OF MERCURY
THE PRIEST OF MARS
THE ORACLE
UNDER THE LEADS
THE ROOKS AND THE HAWK
THE POLISH DUEL
CASANOVA IN MADRID
THE OUTLAW OF FALKENSTEIG
D'AUBEVILLE'S ENTERPRISE
THE NUPTIALS OF LINDENSTEIN
THE OUTLAW AND THE LADY
THE JEALOUSY OF DELVENTHAL
THE SHRIVING OF FELSHEIM
LOADED DICE
OF WHAT BEFEL AT BAILIENOCHY
AFTER WORCESTER FIELD
THE CHANCELLOR'S DAUGHTER
CAROLUS AND CAROLINE
IN THE ELEVENTH HOUR
THE DUEL ON THE BEACH
FORBIDDEN LOVER
THE NUPTIALS OF CORBIGNY
THE WORD OF BORGIA
DAGGER AND SWORD
THE PRETENDER
IN THE SHADOW OF THE GUILLOTINE
THE GORDIAN KNOT
DRAMA
THE TYRANT
HISTORICAL WORKS
THE LIFE OF CESARE BORGIA
PREFACE
BOOK I. THE HOUSE OF THE BULL
CHAPTER I. THE RISE OF THE HOUSE OF BORGIA
CHAPTER II. THE REIGNS OF SIXTUS IV AND INNOCENT VIII
CHAPTER III. ALEXANDER VI
CHAPTER IV. BORGIA ALLIANCES
BOOK II. THE BULL PASCANT
CHAPTER I. THE FRENCH INVASION
CHAPTER II. THE POPE AND THE SUPERNATURAL
CHAPTER III. THE ROMAN BARONS
CHAPTER IV. THE MURDER OF THE DUKE OF GANDIA
CHAPTER V. THE RENUNCIATION OF THE PURPLE
BOOK III. THE BULL RAMPANT
CHAPTER I. THE DUCHESS OF VALENTINOIS
CHAPTER II. THE KNELL OF THE TYRANTS
CHAPTER III. IMOLA AND FORLI
CHAPTER IV. GONFALONIER OF THE CHURCH
CHAPTER V. THE MURDER OF ALFONSO OF ARAGON
CHAPTER VI. RIMINI AND PESARO
CHAPTER VII. THE SIEGE OF FAENZA
CHAPTER VIII. ASTORRE MANFREDI
CHAPTER IX. CASTEL BOLOGNESE AND PIOMBINO
CHAPTER X. THE END OF THE HOUSE OF ARAGON
CHAPTER XI. THE LETTER TO SILVIO SAVELLI
CHAPTER XII. LUCREZIA’S THIRD MARRIAGE
CHAPTER XIII. URBINO AND CAMERINO
CHAPTER XIV. THE REVOLT OF THE CONDOTTIERI
CHAPTER XV. MACCHIAVELLI’S LEGATION
CHAPTER XVI. RAMIRO DE LORQUA
CHAPTER XVII. “THE BEAUTIFUL STRATAGEM”
CHAPTER XVIII. THE ZENITH
BOOK IV. THE BULL CADENT
CHAPTER I. THE DEATH OF ALEXANDER VI
CHAPTER II. PIUS III
CHAPTER III. JULIUS II
CHAPTER IV. ATROPOS
TORQUEMADA AND THE SPANISH INQUISITION
PREFACE
CHAPTER I. EARLY PERSECUTIONS
CHAPTER II. THE INQUISITION CANONICALLY ESTABLISHED
CHAPTER III. THE ORDER OF ST. DOMINIC
CHAPTER IV. ISABELLA THE CATHOLIC
CHAPTER V. THE JEWS IN SPAIN
CHAPTER VI. THE NEW-CHRISTIANS
CHAPTER VII. THE PRIOR OF HOLY CROSS
CHAPTER VIII. THE HOLY OFFICE IN SEVILLE
CHAPTER IX. THE SUPREME COUNCIL
CHAPTER X. THE JURISPRUDENCE OF THE HOLY OFFICE—THE FIRST “INSTRUCTIONS” OF TORQUEMADA
CHAPTER XI. THE JURISPRUDENCE OF THE HOLY OFFICE—THE MODE OF PROCEDURE
CHAPTER XII. THE JURISPRUDENCE OF THE HOLY OFFICE—THE AUDIENCE OF TORMENT
CHAPTER XIII. THE JURISPRUDENCE OF THE HOLY OFFICE—THE SECULAR ARM
CHAPTER XIV. PEDRO ARBUÉS DE EPILA
CHAPTER XV. TORQUEMADA’S FURTHER “INSTRUCTIONS”
CHAPTER XVI. THE INQUISITION IN TOLEDO
CHAPTER XVII. AUTOS DE FÉ
CHAPTER XVIII. TORQUEMADA AND THE JEWS
CHAPTER XIX. THE LEGEND OF THE SANTO NIÑO
CHAPTER XX. THE ARREST OF YUCÉ FRANCO
CHAPTER XXI. THE TRIAL OF YUCÉ FRANCO
CHAPTER XXII. THE TRIAL OF YUCÉ FRANCO (Continued)
CHAPTER XXIII. THE TRIAL OF YUCÉ FRANCO—(Concluded)
CHAPTER XXIV. EPILOGUE TO THE AFFAIR OF THE SANTO NIÑO
CHAPTER XXV. THE EDICT OF BANISHMENT
CHAPTER XXVI. THE EXODUS FROM SPAIN
CHAPTER XXVII. THE LAST “INSTRUCTIONS” OF TORQUEMADA
FOOTNOTES:
THE HISTORICAL NIGHTS' ENTERTAINMENT – FIRST SERIES
PREFACE
I. THE NIGHT OF HOLYROOD—The Murder of David Rizzio
II. THE NIGHT OF KIRK O' FIELD—The Murder of Darnley
III. THE NIGHT OF BETRAYAL—Antonio Perez and Philip II of Spain
IV. THE NIGHT OF CHARITY—The Case Of The Lady Alice Lisle
V. THE NIGHT OF MASSACRE—The Story Of The Saint Bartholomew
VI. THE NIGHT OF WITCHCRAFT—Louis XIV and Madame De Montespan
VII. THE NIGHT OF GEMS—The “Affairs” Of The Queen's Necklace
VIII. THE NIGHT OF TERROR—The Drownings At Nantes Under Carrier
IX. THE NIGHT OF NUPTIALS—Charles The Bold And Sapphira Danvelt
X. THE NIGHT OF STRANGLERS—Govanna Of Naples And Andreas Of Hungary
XI. THE NIGHT OF HATE—The Murder Of The Duke Of Gandia
XII. THE NIGHT OF ESCAPE—Casanova's Escape From The Piombi
XIII. THE NIGHT OF MASQUERADE—The Assassination Of Gustavus III Of Sweden
THE HISTORICAL NIGHTS' ENTERTAINMENT – SECOND SERIES
PREFACE
I. THE ABSOLUTION Aftonso Henriques, first King of Portugal
II. THE FALSE DEMETRIUS Boris Godunov and the Pretended Son of Ivan the Terrible
III. THE HERMOSA FEMBRA An Episode of the Inquisition in Seville
IV. THE PASTRY-COOK OF MADRIGAL The Story of the False Sebastian of Portugal
V. THE END OF THE “VERT GALANT” The Assassination of Henry IV
VI. THE BARREN WOOING The Murder of Amy Robsart
VII. SIR JUDAS The Betrayal of Sir Walter Ralegh
VIII. HIS INSOLENCE OF BUCKINGHAM George Villier's Courtship of Ann of Austria
IX. THE PATH OF EXILE The Fall of Lord Clarendon
X. THE TRAGEDY OF HERRENHAUSEN Count Philip Königsmark and the Princess Sophia Dorothea
XI. THE TYRANNICIDE Charlotte Corday and Jean Paul Morat
THE HISTORICAL NIGHTS' ENTERTAINMENT – THIRD SERIES
PREFACE
THE KING'S CONSCIENCE
JANE THE QUEEN
THE 'CROOKED CARCASE'
THE FORBIDDEN FRUIT
THE MERCHANT'S DAUGHTER
THE KING OF PARIS
THE TRAGEDY OF MADAME
THE VAGABOND QUEEN
THE QUEEN'S GAMBIT
THE SECRET ADVERSARY
MADAM RESOURCEFUL
THE VICTOR OF VENDÉMIARIE
About the Book & Author
§
This Excellent Collection brings together Sabatini's longer, major books and a fine selection of shorter pieces and Naval Science-Fiction Books and Sea-Stories. This Books created and collected in Rafael Sabatini’s Most important Works illuminate the life and work of one of the most individual writers of the XX century - a man who elevated political writing to an art.
Rafael Sabatini (1875 –1950) was an Italian-English writer of romance and adventure novels. He is best known for his worldwide bestsellers: The Sea Hawk (1915), Scaramouche (1921), Captain Blood (a.k.a. The Odyssey of Captain Blood) (1922), and Bellarion the Fortunate (1926).In all, Sabatini produced 34 novels, eight short story collections, six non-fiction books, numerous uncollected short stories, and several plays.
This Collection included:
CAPTAIN BLOOD SERIES
·Captain Blood
·Captain Blood Returns
·The Fortunes of Captain Blood
SCARAMOUCHE SERIES
·Scaramouche
·Scaramouche the King-Maker
NOVELS
·The Lovers of Yvonne
·The Tavern Knight
·Bardelys the Magnificent
·The Trampling of the Lilies
·Love-at-Arms
·The Shame of Motley
·St. Martin's Summer
·Mistress Wilding
·The Lion's Skin
·The Strolling Saint
·The Gates of Doom
·The Sea Hawk
·The Snare
·Fortune's Fool
·The Carolinian
·Bellarion the Fortunate
·The Nuptials of Corbal
·The Hounds of God
·The Romantic Prince
·The King's Minion
·The Black Swan
·The Stalking Horse
·Venetian Masque
·Chivalry
·The Lost King
·The Sword of Islam
·The Marquis of Carabas
·Columbus
·King in Prussia
·The Gamester
SHORT STORIES
·The Justice of the Duke
·The Banner of the Bull
·Turbulent Tales
·Other Stories
DRAMA
·The Tyrant
HISTORICAL WORKS
·The Life of Cesare Borgia
·Torquemada and the Spanish Inquisition
·The Historical Nights' Entertainment – First Series
·The Historical Nights' Entertainment – Second Series
·The Historical Nights' Entertainment – Third Series
* * *
Who Was Rafael Sabatini?
Rafael Sabatini(29 April 1875 – 13 February 1950)was born in Iesi, Italy, to an English mother, Anna Trafford, and Italian father, Vincenzo Sabatini. His parents were opera singers who then became teachers. At a young age, Sabatini was exposed to many languages, living with his grandfather in England, attending school in Portugal, and, as a teenager, in Switzerland. By the time he was 17, when he returned to England to live permanently, he had become proficient in five languages. He quickly added a sixth language – English – to his linguistic collection. He consciously chose to write in his adopted language, because, he said, "All the best stories are written in English".
After a brief stint in the business world, Sabatini went to work as a writer. He wrote short stories in the 1890s, and his first novel came out in 1902. In 1905, he married Ruth Goad Dixon, the daughter of a Liverpool merchant. It took Sabatini roughly a quarter of a century of hard work before he attained success with Scaramouche in 1921. The novel, an historical romance set during the French Revolution, became an international bestseller. It was followed by the equally successful Captain Blood (1922). All of his earlier books were rushed into reprints, the most popular of which was The Sea Hawk (1915). Sabatini was a prolific writer; he produced a new book approximately every year and maintained a great deal of popularity with the reading public through the decades that followed.
Several of his novels were adapted into films during the silent eraand the first three of these books were made into notable films in the sound era: The Sea Hawk in 1940, Scaramouche in 1952, and Captain Blood in 1935. His third novel Bardelys the Magnificent was made into a famous 1926 "lost" film of the same title, directed by King Vidor, starring John Gilbert, and long viewable only in a fragment excerpted in Vidor's silent comedy Show People (1928). A few intact reels have recently been discovered in Europe. The fully restored version premièred on TCM on 11 January 2010.
Two silent adaptations of Sabatini novels which do survive intact are Rex Ingram's Scaramouche (1923) starring Ramón Novarro, and The Sea Hawk (1924) directed by Frank Lloyd and starring Milton Sills. The 1940 film The Sea Hawk, with Errol Flynn, is not a remake but a wholly new story which just used the title.A silent version of Captain Blood (1924), starring J. Warren Kerrigan, is partly lost, surviving only in an incomplete copy in the Library of Congress. The Black Swan (1942) was filmed starring Tyrone Power and Maureen O'Hara.
Rafael Sabatini Collection
“The Complete Works”
by
Rafael Sabatini
Dedication
To
The Carolinian:
My Dear Harold,
Some few years ago you and I, labouring jointly, delved into the romantic soil of Carolinian history for certain elements from which to construct a play of the American War of Independence. Out of these same elements I have now fashioned this book, and in dedicating it to you I do so not merely as a pledge of the warm esteem in which I hold you, but as an acknowledgement that is due,
Believe me, my dear Harold,
Your friend,
Rafael Sabatini
CAPTAIN BLOOD SERIES
Captain Blood
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Short Summary:
The protagonist is the sharp-witted Dr. Peter Blood, a fictional Irish physician who had had a wide-ranging career as a soldier and sailor (including a commission as a captain under the Dutch admiral De Ruyter) before settling down to practice medicine in the town of Bridgwater in Somerset. The story is told from the perspective of an omniscient narrator, who enables the reader to see the thoughts and views of many different characters. The narrator - perhaps meant to be Sabatini himself - claims to have acquired the story from the ship's logs of Blood's longtime companion Jeremy Pitt.
The book opens with him attending to his geraniums while the town prepares to fight for James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth. He wants no part in the rebellion, but while attending to some of the rebels wounded at the Battle of Sedgemoor, Peter is arrested. During the Bloody Assizes, he is convicted by the infamous Judge Jeffreys of treason on the grounds that "if any person be in actual rebellion against the King, and another person—who really and actually was not in rebellion—does knowingly receive, harbour, comfort, or succour him, such a person is as much a traitor as he who indeed bore arms."
The sentence for treason is death by hanging, but King James II, for purely financial reasons, has the sentence for Blood and other convicted rebels commuted to transportation to the Caribbean, where they are to be sold into slavery. Upon arrival on the island of Barbados, Blood is bought by Colonel William Bishop, initially for work in the Colonel's sugar plantations but later hired out by Bishop when Blood's skills as a physician prove superior to those of the local doctors. During his period of slavery, Blood becomes acquainted with and even friendly with Arabella Bishop, Colonel Bishop's niece, who becomes sympathetic after learning his history.
When a Spanish force attacks and raids the town of Bridgetown, Blood escapes with a number of other convict-slaves (including former shipmaster Jeremy Pitt, the one-eyed giant Edward Wolverstone, former gentleman Nathaniel Hagthorpe, former Royal Navy petty officer Nicholas Dyke and former Royal Navy master gunner Ned Ogle), captures the Spaniards' ship and sails away to become one of the most successful pirates in the Caribbean, hated and feared by the Spanish and always sparing English ships. Colonel Bishop, humiliated by Blood's escape and by Blood himself, devotes himself to capturing Blood with the hope of hanging him.
After the Glorious Revolution, Blood is pardoned. As a reward for saving the colony of Jamaica from a French assault, he is appointed its governor in place of Colonel Bishop, who had abandoned his post to hunt for Blood, and the novel ends with the implication that Blood will not only marry Colonel Bishop's niece Arabella but will also let Bishop off easy.
CHAPTER I. THE MESSENGER
Peter Blood, bachelor of medicine and several other things besides, smoked a pipe and tended the geraniums boxed on the sill of his window above Water Lane in the town of Bridgewater.
Sternly disapproving eyes considered him from a window opposite, but went disregarded. Mr. Blood's attention was divided between his task and the stream of humanity in the narrow street below; a stream which poured for the second time that day towards Castle Field, where earlier in the afternoon Ferguson, the Duke's chaplain, had preached a sermon containing more treason than divinity.
These straggling, excited groups were mainly composed of men with green boughs in their hats and the most ludicrous of weapons in their hands. Some, it is true, shouldered fowling pieces, and here and there a sword was brandished; but more of them were armed with clubs, and most of them trailed the mammoth pikes fashioned out of scythes, as formidable to the eye as they were clumsy to the hand. There were weavers, brewers, carpenters, smiths, masons, bricklayers, cobblers, and representatives of every other of the trades of peace among these improvised men of war. Bridgewater, like Taunton, had yielded so generously of its manhood to the service of the bastard Duke that for any to abstain whose age and strength admitted of his bearing arms was to brand himself a coward or a papist.
Yet Peter Blood, who was not only able to bear arms, but trained and skilled in their use, who was certainly no coward, and a papist only when it suited him, tended his geraniums and smoked his pipe on that warm July evening as indifferently as if nothing were afoot. One other thing he did. He flung after those war-fevered enthusiasts a line of Horace—a poet for whose work he had early conceived an inordinate affection:
“Quo, quo, scelesti, ruitis?”
And now perhaps you guess why the hot, intrepid blood inherited from the roving sires of his Somersetshire mother remained cool amidst all this frenzied fanatical heat of rebellion; why the turbulent spirit which had forced him once from the sedate academical bonds his father would have imposed upon him, should now remain quiet in the very midst of turbulence. You realize how he regarded these men who were rallying to the banners of liberty—the banners woven by the virgins of Taunton, the girls from the seminaries of Miss Blake and Mrs. Musgrove, who—as the ballad runs—had ripped open their silk petticoats to make colours for King Monmouth's army. That Latin line, contemptuously flung after them as they clattered down the cobbled street, reveals his mind. To him they were fools rushing in wicked frenzy upon their ruin.
You see, he knew too much about this fellow Monmouth and the pretty brown slut who had borne him, to be deceived by the legend of legitimacy, on the strength of which this standard of rebellion had been raised. He had read the absurd proclamation posted at the Cross at Bridgewater—as it had been posted also at Taunton and elsewhere—setting forth that “upon the decease of our Sovereign Lord Charles the Second, the right of succession to the Crown of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, with the dominions and territories thereunto belonging, did legally descend and devolve upon the most illustrious and high-born Prince James, Duke of Monmouth, son and heir apparent to the said King Charles the Second.”
It had moved him to laughter, as had the further announcement that “James Duke of York did first cause the said late King to be poysoned, and immediately thereupon did usurp and invade the Crown.”
He knew not which was the greater lie. For Mr. Blood had spent a third of his life in the Netherlands, where this same James Scott—who now proclaimed himself James the Second, by the grace of God, King, et cetera—first saw the light some six-and-thirty years ago, and he was acquainted with the story current there of the fellow's real paternity. Far from being legitimate—by virtue of a pretended secret marriage between Charles Stuart and Lucy Walter—it was possible that this Monmouth who now proclaimed himself King of England was not even the illegitimate child of the late sovereign. What but ruin and disaster could be the end of this grotesque pretension? How could it be hoped that England would ever swallow such a Perkin? And it was on his behalf, to uphold his fantastic claim, that these West Country clods, led by a few armigerous Whigs, had been seduced into rebellion!
“Quo, quo, scelesti, ruitis?”
He laughed and sighed in one; but the laugh dominated the sigh, for Mr. Blood was unsympathetic, as are most self-sufficient men; and he was very self-sufficient; adversity had taught him so to be. A more tender-hearted man, possessing his vision and his knowledge, might have found cause for tears in the contemplation of these ardent, simple, Nonconformist sheep going forth to the shambles—escorted to the rallying ground on Castle Field by wives and daughters, sweethearts and mothers, sustained by the delusion that they were to take the field in defence of Right, of Liberty, and of Religion. For he knew, as all Bridgewater knew and had known now for some hours, that it was Monmouth's intention to deliver battle that same night. The Duke was to lead a surprise attack upon the Royalist army under Feversham that was now encamped on Sedgemoor. Mr. Blood assumed that Lord Feversham would be equally well-informed, and if in this assumption he was wrong, at least he was justified of it. He was not to suppose the Royalist commander so indifferently skilled in the trade he followed.
Mr. Blood knocked the ashes from his pipe, and drew back to close his window. As he did so, his glance travelling straight across the street met at last the glance of those hostile eyes that watched him. There were two pairs, and they belonged to the Misses Pitt, two amiable, sentimental maiden ladies who yielded to none in Bridgewater in their worship of the handsome Monmouth.
Mr. Blood smiled and inclined his head, for he was on friendly terms with these ladies, one of whom, indeed, had been for a little while his patient. But there was no response to his greeting. Instead, the eyes gave him back a stare of cold disdain. The smile on his thin lips grew a little broader, a little less pleasant. He understood the reason of that hostility, which had been daily growing in this past week since Monmouth had come to turn the brains of women of all ages. The Misses Pitt, he apprehended, contemned him that he, a young and vigorous man, of a military training which might now be valuable to the Cause, should stand aloof; that he should placidly smoke his pipe and tend his geraniums on this evening of all evenings, when men of spirit were rallying to the Protestant Champion, offering their blood to place him on the throne where he belonged.
If Mr. Blood had condescended to debate the matter with these ladies, he might have urged that having had his fill of wandering and adventuring, he was now embarked upon the career for which he had been originally intended and for which his studies had equipped him; that he was a man of medicine and not of war; a healer, not a slayer. But they would have answered him, he knew, that in such a cause it behoved every man who deemed himself a man to take up arms. They would have pointed out that their own nephew Jeremiah, who was by trade a sailor, the master of a ship—which by an ill-chance for that young man had come to anchor at this season in Bridgewater Bay—had quitted the helm to snatch up a musket in defence of Right. But Mr. Blood was not of those who argue. As I have said, he was a self-sufficient man.
He closed the window, drew the curtains, and turned to the pleasant, candle-lighted room, and the table on which Mrs. Barlow, his housekeeper, was in the very act of spreading supper. To her, however, he spoke aloud his thought.
“It's out of favour I am with the vinegary virgins over the way.”
He had a pleasant, vibrant voice, whose metallic ring was softened and muted by the Irish accent which in all his wanderings he had never lost. It was a voice that could woo seductively and caressingly, or command in such a way as to compel obedience. Indeed, the man's whole nature was in that voice of his. For the rest of him, he was tall and spare, swarthy of tint as a gipsy, with eyes that were startlingly blue in that dark face and under those level black brows. In their glance those eyes, flanking a high-bridged, intrepid nose, were of singular penetration and of a steady haughtiness that went well with his firm lips. Though dressed in black as became his calling, yet it was with an elegance derived from the love of clothes that is peculiar to the adventurer he had been, rather than to the staid medicus he now was. His coat was of fine camlet, and it was laced with silver; there were ruffles of Mechlin at his wrists and a Mechlin cravat encased his throat. His great black periwig was as sedulously curled as any at Whitehall.
Seeing him thus, and perceiving his real nature, which was plain upon him, you might have been tempted to speculate how long such a man would be content to lie by in this little backwater of the world into which chance had swept him some six months ago; how long he would continue to pursue the trade for which he had qualified himself before he had begun to live. Difficult of belief though it may be when you know his history, previous and subsequent, yet it is possible that but for the trick that Fate was about to play him, he might have continued this peaceful existence, settling down completely to the life of a doctor in this Somersetshire haven. It is possible, but not probable.
He was the son of an Irish medicus, by a Somersetshire lady in whose veins ran the rover blood of the Frobishers, which may account for a certain wildness that had early manifested itself in his disposition. This wildness had profoundly alarmed his father, who for an Irishman was of a singularly peace-loving nature. He had early resolved that the boy should follow his own honourable profession, and Peter Blood, being quick to learn and oddly greedy of knowledge, had satisfied his parent by receiving at the age of twenty the degree of baccalaureus medicinae at Trinity College, Dublin. His father survived that satisfaction by three months only. His mother had then been dead some years already. Thus Peter Blood came into an inheritance of some few hundred pounds, with which he had set out to see the world and give for a season a free rein to that restless spirit by which he was imbued. A set of curious chances led him to take service with the Dutch, then at war with France; and a predilection for the sea made him elect that this service should be upon that element. He had the advantage of a commission under the famous de Ruyter, and fought in the Mediterranean engagement in which that great Dutch admiral lost his life.
After the Peace of Nimeguen his movements are obscure. But we know that he spent two years in a Spanish prison, though we do not know how he contrived to get there. It may be due to this that upon his release he took his sword to France, and saw service with the French in their warring upon the Spanish Netherlands. Having reached, at last, the age of thirty-two, his appetite for adventure surfeited, his health having grown indifferent as the result of a neglected wound, he was suddenly overwhelmed by homesickness. He took ship from Nantes with intent to cross to Ireland. But the vessel being driven by stress of weather into Bridgewater Bay, and Blood's health having grown worse during the voyage, he decided to go ashore there, additionally urged to it by the fact that it was his mother's native soil.
Thus in January of that year 1685 he had come to Bridgewater, possessor of a fortune that was approximately the same as that with which he had originally set out from Dublin eleven years ago.
Because he liked the place, in which his health was rapidly restored to him, and because he conceived that he had passed through adventures enough for a man's lifetime, he determined to settle there, and take up at last the profession of medicine from which he had, with so little profit, broken away.
That is all his story, or so much of it as matters up to that night, six months later, when the battle of Sedgemoor was fought.
Deeming the impending action no affair of his, as indeed it was not, and indifferent to the activity with which Bridgewater was that night agog, Mr. Blood closed his ears to the sounds of it, and went early to bed. He was peacefully asleep long before eleven o'clock, at which hour, as you know, Monmouth rode but with his rebel host along the Bristol Road, circuitously to avoid the marshland that lay directly between himself and the Royal Army. You also know that his numerical advantage—possibly counter-balanced by the greater steadiness of the regular troops on the other side—and the advantages he derived from falling by surprise upon an army that was more or less asleep, were all lost to him by blundering and bad leadership before ever he was at grips with Feversham.
The armies came into collision in the neighbourhood of two o'clock in the morning. Mr. Blood slept undisturbed through the distant boom of cannon. Not until four o'clock, when the sun was rising to dispel the last wisps of mist over that stricken field of battle, did he awaken from his tranquil slumbers.
He sat up in bed, rubbed the sleep from his eyes, and collected himself. Blows were thundering upon the door of his house, and a voice was calling incoherently. This was the noise that had aroused him. Conceiving that he had to do with some urgent obstetrical case, he reached for bedgown and slippers, to go below. On the landing he almost collided with Mrs. Barlow, new-risen and unsightly, in a state of panic. He quieted her cluckings with a word of reassurance, and went himself to open.
There in slanting golden light of the new-risen sun stood a breathless, wild-eyed man and a steaming horse. Smothered in dust and grime, his clothes in disarray, the left sleeve of his doublet hanging in rags, this young man opened his lips to speak, yet for a long moment remained speechless.
In that moment Mr. Blood recognized him for the young shipmaster, Jeremiah Pitt, the nephew of the maiden ladies opposite, one who had been drawn by the general enthusiasm into the vortex of that rebellion. The street was rousing, awakened by the sailor's noisy advent; doors were opening, and lattices were being unlatched for the protrusion of anxious, inquisitive heads.
“Take your time, now,” said Mr. Blood. “I never knew speed made by overhaste.”
But the wild-eyed lad paid no heed to the admonition. He plunged, headlong, into speech, gasping, breathless.
“It is Lord Gildoy,” he panted. “He is sore wounded... at Oglethorpe's Farm by the river. I bore him thither... and... and he sent me for you. Come away! Come away!”
He would have clutched the doctor, and haled him forth by force in bedgown and slippers as he was. But the doctor eluded that too eager hand.
“To be sure, I'll come,” said he. He was distressed. Gildoy had been a very friendly, generous patron to him since his settling in these parts. And Mr. Blood was eager enough to do what he now could to discharge the debt, grieved that the occasion should have arisen, and in such a manner—for he knew quite well that the rash young nobleman had been an active agent of the Duke's. “To be sure, I'll come. But first give me leave to get some clothes and other things that I may need.”
“There's no time to lose.”
“Be easy now. I'll lose none. I tell ye again, ye'll go quickest by going leisurely. Come in... take a chair...” He threw open the door of a parlour.
Young Pitt waved aside the invitation.
“I'll wait here. Make haste, in God's name.” Mr. Blood went off to dress and to fetch a case of instruments.
Questions concerning the precise nature of Lord Gildoy's hurt could wait until they were on their way. Whilst he pulled on his boots, he gave Mrs. Barlow instructions for the day, which included the matter of a dinner he was not destined to eat.
When at last he went forth again, Mrs. Barlow clucking after him like a disgruntled fowl, he found young Pitt smothered in a crowd of scared, half-dressed townsfolk—mostly women—who had come hastening for news of how the battle had sped. The news he gave them was to be read in the lamentations with which they disturbed the morning air.
At sight of the doctor, dressed and booted, the case of instruments tucked under his arm, the messenger disengaged himself from those who pressed about, shook off his weariness and the two tearful aunts that clung most closely, and seizing the bridle of his horse, he climbed to the saddle.
