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James Branch Cabell. Domnei
Domnei
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CHAPTER. A PREFACE. CRITICAL COMMENT. THE ARGUMENT. PART ONE—PERION. I HOW PERION WAS UNMASKED. II HOW THE VICOMTE WAS VERY GAY. III HOW MELICENT WOOED. IV HOW THE BISHOP AIDED PERION. V HOW MELICENT WEDDED. PART TWO—MELICENT. VI HOW MELICENT SOUGHT OVERSEA. VII HOW PERION WAS FREED. VIII HOW DEMETRIOS WAS AMUSED. IX HOW TIME SPED IN HEATHENRY. X HOW DEMETRIOS WOOED. PART THREE—DEMETRIOS. XI HOW TIME SPED WITH PERION. XII HOW DEMETRIOS WAS TAKEN. XIII HOW THEY PRAISED MELICENT. XIV HOW PERION BRAVED THEODORET. XV HOW PERION FOUGHT. XVI HOW DEMETRIOS MEDITATED. XVII HOW A MINSTREL CAME. XVIII HOW THEY CRIED QUITS. XIX HOW FLAMBERGE WAS LOST. XX HOW PERION GOT AID. PART FOUR—AHASUERUS. XXI HOW DEMETRIOS HELD HIS CHATTEL. XXII HOW MISERY HELD NACUMERA. XXIII HOW DEMETRIOS CRIED FAREWELL. XXIV HOW ORESTES RULED. XXV HOW WOMEN TALKED TOGETHER. XXVI HOW MEN ORDERED MATTERS. XXVII HOW AHASUERUS WAS CANDID. XXVIII HOW PERION SAW MELICENT. XXIX HOW A BARGAIN WAS CRIED. XXX HOW MELICENT CONQUERED. THE AFTERWORD. BIBLIOGRAPHY
JOSEPH HERGESHEIMER. CRITICAL COMMENT
—THOMAS UPCLIFFE
THE ARGUMENT
—SIR WILLIAM ALLONBY. THE ROMANCE OF LUSIGNAN OF THAT FORGOTTEN MAKER IN THE FRENCH TONGUE, MESSIRE NICOLAS DE CAEN. HERE BEGINS THE TALE WHICH THEY OF POICTESME NARRATE CONCERNING DAME MELICENT, THAT WAS DAUGHTER TO THE GREAT COUNT MANUEL. PART ONE
PART TWO
MELICENT
PART THREE
DEMETRIOS
PART FOUR
AHASUERUS
CAETERA DESUNT. THE AFTERWORD
EXPLICIT. BIBLIOGRAPHY. BIBLIOGRAPHY
BEYOND LIFE
CHIVALRY. JURGEN. THE LINE OF LOVE. GALLANTRY. THE CERTAIN HOUR. THE CORDS OF VANITY. FROM THE HIDDEN WAY. THE RIVET IN GRANDFATHER'S NECK. THE EAGLE'S SHADOW. THE CREAM OF THE JEST
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"Oh, I do not understand," said Melicent. "It is as though some spell were laid upon me. Look you, I have been cleanly reared, I have never wronged any person that I know of, and throughout my quiet, sheltered life I have loved truth and honour most of all. My judgment grants you to be what you are confessedly. And there is that in me more masterful and surer than my judgment, that which seems omniscient and lightly puts aside your confessings as unimportant."
"Lackey, impostor, and thief!" young Perion answered. "There you have the catalogue of all my rightful titles fairly earned."
