Bardelys the Magnificent
BARDELYS THE MAGNIFICENT
BARDELYS
THE MAGNIFICENT
Being an Account of the Strange Wooing pursued by the Sieur Marcel de Saint-Pol; Marquis of Bardelys, and of the things that in the course of it befell him in Languedoc, in the year of the Rebellion
TORONTO
THOMAS ALLEN
BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1905, BY C. ARTHUR PEARSON, LTD.
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
The Knickerbocker Press
CAMBRIDGE • MASSACHUSETTS
PRINTED IN THE U.S.A.
AI MIEI GENITORI
CONTENTS
I. The Wager 3 II. The King's Wishes 17 III. René de Lesperon 23 IV. A Maid in the Moonlight 32 V. The Vicomte de Lavédan 45 VI. In Convalescence 57 VII. The Hostility of Saint-Eustache 71 VIII. The Portrait 96 IX. A Night Alarm 106 X. The Risen Dead 121 XI. The King's Commissioner 134 XII. The Tribunal of Toulouse 145 XIII. The Eleventh Hour 163 XIV. Eavesdropping 174 XV. Monsieur de Chatellerault is Angry 186 XVI. Swords! 197 XVII. The Babbling of Ganymède 209 XVIII. Saint-Eustache is Obstinate 222 XIX. The Flint and the Steel 236 XX. The “Bravi” At Blagnac 255 XXI. Louis the Just 270 XXII. We Unsaddle 281
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