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Stanley John Weyman. A Gentleman of France: Being the Memoirs of Gaston de Bonne Sieur de Marsac
A Gentleman of France: Being the Memoirs of Gaston de Bonne Sieur de Marsac
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A GENTLEMAN OF FRANCE
CHAPTER I. THE SPORT OF FOOLS
CHAPTER II. THE KING OF NAVARRE
CHAPTER III. BOOT AND SADDLE
CHAPTER IV. MADEMOISELLE DE LA VIRE
CHAPTER V. THE ROAD TO BLOIS
CHAPTER VI. MY MOTHER’S LODGING
CHAPTER VII. SIMON FLEIX
CHAPTER VIII. AN EMPTY ROOM
CHAPTER IX. THE HOUSE IN THE RUELLE D’ARCY
CHAPTER X. THE FIGHT ON THE STAIRS
CHAPTER XI. THE MAN AT THE DOOR
CHAPTER XII. MAXIMILIAN DE BETHUNE, BARON DE ROSNY
CHAPTER XIII. AT ROSNY
CHAPTER XIV. M. DE RAMBOUILLET
CHAPTER XV. VILAIN HERODES
CHAPTER XVI. IN THE KING’S CHAMBER
CHAPTER XVII. THE JACOBIN MONK
CHAPTER XVIII. THE OFFER OF THE LEAGUE
CHAPTER XIX. MEN CALL IT CHANCE
CHAPTER XX. THE KING’S FACE
CHAPTER XXI. TWO WOMEN
CHAPTER XXII. ‘LA FEMME DISPOSE.’
CHAPTER XXIII. THE LAST VALOIS
CHAPTER XXIV. A ROYAL PERIL
CHAPTER XXV. TERMS OF SURRENDER
CHAPTER XXVI. MEDITATIONS
CHAPTER XXVII. TO ME, MY FRIENDS!
CHAPTER XXVIII. THE CASTLE ON THE HILL
CHAPTER XXIX. PESTILENCE AND FAMINE
CHAPTER XXX. STRICKEN
CHAPTER XXXI. UNDER THE GREENWOOD
CHAPTER XXXII. A TAVERN BRAWL
CHAPTER XXXIII. AT MEUDON
CHAPTER XXXIV. ‘’TIS AN ILL WIND.’
CHAPTER XXXV. ‘LE ROI EST MORT!’
CHAPTER XXXVI. ‘VIVE LE ROI!’
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Stanley John Weyman
Published by Good Press, 2019
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I hesitated. Had I been a younger man by ten years I should doubtless have cried assent there and then, having been all my life ready enough to embark on such enterprises as offered a chance of distinction. But something in the strangeness of the king’s preface, although I had it in my heart to die for him, gave me check, and I answered, with an air of great humility, ‘You will think me but a poor courtier now, sire, yet he is a fool who jumps into a ditch without measuring the depth. I would fain, if I may say it without disrespect, hear all that you can tell me.’
‘Then I fear,’ he answered quickly, ‘if you would have more light on the matter, my friend, you must get another candle.’
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