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Bowen Marjorie. Child of Chequer'd Fortune
Child of Chequer'd Fortune
Table of Contents
FOREWORD
PROEM
Part I. THE SAXON ADVENTURER
I. "A VAPOUR SOMETIME LIKE A LION OR A BEAR"
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II. "LANGUES DU CHAT"
III. A GREAT GENTLEMAN'S NOTEBOOK
Part II. FAMOUS'D IN FIGHT
I. CROWNS, SPADES AND DRUMS
II. MAURICE, SWEET WILLIAM AND SOME UNDERLINGS
III. SCOUNDREL'S DIVERSION
Part III. THE TROPHIES AND THE DUST
I. A CHARMING SACRIFICE
II. THE MONSTROUS PALACE
III. FOR VALOUR
BIBLIOGRAPHY
THE END
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Marjorie Bowen
Published by Good Press, 2022
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The troops of the Sultan went into battle superbly equipped, while their tents were furnished with a profusion of rich objects so that every time they were defeated, even in a brush, or skirmish, the Christians carried away costly plunder and the treasury of the Green Vaults, in the fantastic palace of Augustus II at Dresden contained many a priceless ruby and emerald, many a costly plume, aigrette or scimitar, picked up on the Eastern frontiers where the Turkish janissaries struggled so long and so obstinately to penetrate into the West.
Rich opportunities for plunder were also offered by the wars in which Venice engaged the Porte and those where Naples, under a Spanish Viceroy, fought off the Algerian corsairs.
