In the Days of Chivalry: A Tale of the Times of the Black Prince
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Everett-Green Evelyn. In the Days of Chivalry: A Tale of the Times of the Black Prince
CHAPTER I. THE TWIN EAGLETS
CHAPTER II. FATHER ANSELM
CHAPTER III. THE UNKNOWN WORLD
CHAPTER IV. THE MASTER OF THE HORSE
CHAPTER V. THE KING AND THE PRINCE
CHAPTER VI. THE PRINCE'S EXPLOIT
CHAPTER VII. THE RECTOR'S HOUSE
CHAPTER VIII. THE VISIT TO THE WOODMAN
CHAPTER IX. JOAN VAVASOUR
CHAPTER X. BASILDENE
CHAPTER XI. A QUIET RETREAT
CHAPTER XII. ON THE WAR PATH
CHAPTER XIII. WINNING HIS SPURS
CHAPTER XIV. WINTER DAYS
CHAPTER XV. THE DOUBLE SURRENDER
CHAPTER XVI. IN THE OLD HOME
CHAPTER XVII. THE BLACK DEATH
CHAPTER XVIII. WITH FATHER PAUL
CHAPTER XIX. THE STRICKEN SORCERER
CHAPTER XX. MINISTERING SPIRITS
CHAPTER XXI. THE OLD, OLD STORY
CHAPTER XXII. THE BLACK VISOR
CHAPTER XXIII. IN THE HANDS OF HIS FOE
CHAPTER XXIV. GASTON'S QUEST
CHAPTER XXV. THE FAIRY OF THE FOREST
CHAPTER XXVI. THE RESCUE OF RAYMOND
CHAPTER XXVII. PETER SANGHURST'S WOOING
CHAPTER XXVIII. GASTON'S SEARCH
CHAPTER XXIX. THE FALL OF THE SANGHURST
CHAPTER XXX. WITH THE PRINCE.1
CHAPTER XXXI. THE SURRENDER OF SAUT
CHAPTER XXXII. ON THE FIELD OF POITIERS
CHAPTER XXXIII. "AT LAST!"
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The mill of Sainte-Foi, which was the home of the twin brothers of the De Brocas line, was situated upon a tributary stream of the river Adour, and was but a couple of leagues distant from the town of Sauveterre – one of those numerous "bastides" or "villes Anglaises" built by the great King Edward the First of England during his long regency of the province of Gascony in the lifetime of his father. It was one of those so-called "Filleules de Bordeaux" which, bound by strong ties to the royal city, the queen of the Garonne, stood by her and played so large a part in the great drama of the Hundred Years' War. Those cities had been built by a great king and statesman to do a great work, and to them were granted charters of liberties such as to attract into their walls large numbers of persons who helped originally in the construction of the new townships, and then resided there, and their children after them, proud of the rights and immunities they claimed, and loyally true to the cause of the English Kings, which made them what they were.
It is plain to the reader of the history of those days that Gascony could never have remained for three hundred years a fief of the English Crown, had it not been to the advantage of her people that she should so remain. Her attachment to the cause of the Roy Outremer, her willing homage to him, would never have been given for so long a period of time, had not the people of the land found that it was to their own advancement and welfare thus to accord this homage and fealty.
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"Have we then uncles in England?" asked Raymond eagerly. "Then, if we find but our way across the water, we may find a home with one of them? Is it not so, good Father?"
The priest did not exclaim at the idea of the boys journeying forth across the seas alone, but he shook his head thoughtfully as he continued his narrative as if there had been no interruption.
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