The Star-Chamber: An Historical Romance, Volume 1
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Ainsworth William Harrison. The Star-Chamber: An Historical Romance, Volume 1
CHAPTER I. The Three Cranes in the Vintry
CHAPTER II. Sir Giles Mompesson and his partner
CHAPTER III. The French ordinary
CHAPTER IV. A Star-Chamber victim
CHAPTER V. Jocelyn Mounchensey
CHAPTER VI. Provocation
CHAPTER VII. How Lord Roos obtained Sir Francis Mitchell's signature
CHAPTER VIII. Of Lupo Vulp, Captain Bludder, Clement Lanyere, and Sir Giles's other Myrmidons
CHAPTER IX. The Letters-Patent
CHAPTER X. The 'prentices and their leader
CHAPTER XI. John Wolfe
CHAPTER XII. The Arrest and the Rescue
CHAPTER XIII. How Jocelyn Mounchensey encountered a masked horseman on Stamford Hill
CHAPTER XIV. The May-Queen and the Puritan's Daughter
CHAPTER XV. Hugh Calveley
CHAPTER XVI. Of the sign given by the Puritan to the Assemblage
CHAPTER XVII. A rash promise
CHAPTER XVIII. How the promise was cancelled
CHAPTER XIX. Theobalds' Palace
CHAPTER XX. King James the First
CHAPTER XXI. Consequences of the Puritan's warning
CHAPTER XXII. Wife and Mother-in-Law
CHAPTER XXIII. The Tress of Hair
CHAPTER XXIV. The Fountain Court
CHAPTER XXV. Sir Thomas Lake
CHAPTER XXVI. The forged Confession
CHAPTER XXVII. The Puritan's Prison
CHAPTER XXVIII. The Secret
CHAPTER XXIX. Luke Hatton
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Madame Bonaventure had already paid considerable sums to the two extortioners, but she resisted their last application; in consequence of which she received a monition from Sir Giles Mompesson, to the effect that, in a month's time, her license would be withdrawn, and her house shut up, unless, in the interim, she consented to make amends to himself and his co-patentee, Sir Francis Mitchell, by payment of the sum in question, together with a further sum, equal to it in amount, by way of forfeit; thus doubling the original demand.
Our pretty hostess, it would seem, had placed herself in an awkward predicament by her temerity. Sir Giles was not a man to threaten idly, as all who had incurred his displeasure experienced to their cost. His plan was to make himself feared; and he was inexorable, as fate itself, to a creditor. He ever exacted the full penalty of his bond. In this instance, according to his own notion, he had acted with great leniency; and certainly, judged by his customary mode of proceeding in such cases, he had shown some little indulgence. In this line of conduct he had been mainly influenced by his partner, who, not being insensible to the attractions of the fair hostess, hoped to win her favour by a show of consideration. But though Madame Bonaventure was willing enough, for her own purposes, to encourage Sir Francis Mitchell's attentions (she detested him in her secret heart), she by no means relied upon him for security. A more powerful friend was held in reserve, whom she meant to produce at the last moment; and, consequently, she was not so ill at ease as she otherwise would have been, though by no means free from misgiving.
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"But I will not stay. I will not be detained. There is some conspiracy a-foot against me. I will indict you all for it, if you hinder me in going forth," the knight vociferated, in accents of mingled rage and terror. "Stop me at your peril, thou saucy Gascon knave."
"Cornes du diable!—no more a knave than yourself, gros usurier!" Cyprien cried.
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