Prince and Heretic

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Bowen Marjorie. Prince and Heretic

Prince and Heretic

Table of Contents

PART I-THE NETHERLANDERS

I.—THE ALCHEMIST

II.—FRÄULEIN ANNE

III.—LOUIS OF NASSAU

IV.—THE SAINT BARTHOLOMEW WEDDING

V.—WILLIAM OF ORANGE

VI.—THE CRYSTAL GAZERS

VII.—BRUSSELS

VIII.—MARGARET OF PARMA

IX.—CARDINAL GRANVELLE

X.—THE RHETORIC PLAY

XI.—THE JESTERS AND THE RHETORIC PLAYERS

XII.—THE GRANDEES

XIII.—THE DEPARTURE OF THE CARDINAL

XIV.—THE REGENT, THE PRINCE, AND THE CARDINALIST

PART II-THE HOLY INQUISITION

I.—THE PIGEON

II.—THE LOYALTY OF LAMORAL EGMONT

III.—THE AMUSEMENTS OF THE PRINCESS OF ORANGE

IV.—PHILIP'S MANDATE

V.—THE KNIGHT-ERRANT

VI.—THE EDICTS

VII.—THE PETITION

VIII.—THE BANQUET

IX.—MONTIGNY'S WIFE

X.—ANTWERP

XI.—THE PRINCE RESIGNS

XII.—ORANGE AND EGMONT

XIII.—THE COMING OF ALVA

XIV.—PHILIP'S AVENGERS

PART III-THE HOUSE OF NASSAU

I.—DILLENBURG

II.—JULIANA OF STOLBERG

III.—HEILIGER LEE

IV.—THE FIRST BATTLE

V.—NEWS FROM THE NETHERLANDS

VI.—THE PRINCE AT BAY

VII.—THE ACTION ON THE GETA

VIII.—THE ANABAPTIST PREACHER

IX.—WINTER TIME

X.—THE ABBESS

THE END

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Marjorie Bowen

Published by Good Press, 2022

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The young man flushed, and turned again to his furnace which he was keeping at white heat for the melting of more lead wherewith to seal a further row of pots containing a strange solution with which Vanderlinden was experimenting. Hans returned with the three rolls of manuscript and the book. The alchemist, with a severe injunction to them to keep up the furnace and refrain from idle speech, withdrew to his private chamber in the roof or gables, where he usually meditated and struggled with the problems he discovered in the mystical writings and oblique instructions, veiled hints and tortuous references of the ancient sages and masters.

The two young men, as soon as they were alone, at once went to the window and leant out, squeezing themselves together with some difficulty, for the casement was narrow.

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