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Thomas B. Costain. The Black Rose
The Black Rose
Table of Contents
Introduction
Book One
CHAPTER I
Oxford
2
3
4
5
6
CHAPTER II
Gurnie
2
3
4
CHAPTER III
Bulaire
2
3
4
5
6
CHAPTER IV
London
2
3
Book Two
CHAPTER V
Antioch
2
3
4
CHAPTER VI
Maragha
2
3
4
5
CHAPTER VII
The Snowy Mountains
2
3
4
5
6
CHAPTER VIII
The Pe Lu
2
3
4
5
CHAPTER IX
The Yang-tse
2
CHAPTER X
Kinsai
2
3
4
CHAPTER XI
The Abode of Everlasting Felicity
2
3
4
5
Book Three
CHAPTER XII
England
2
3
CHAPTER XIII
Konkan (Bombay)
2
3
CHAPTER XIV
Little Tamitt
2
3
4
5
CHAPTER XV
Venice
2
3
CHAPTER XVI
Scaunder Clough
2
3
4
CHAPTER XVII
Marseilles
2
CHAPTER XVIII
Leeds Castle
2
3
CHAPTER XIX
The Sign of the Merrytotter
2
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Thomas B. Costain
Published by Good Press, 2021
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Walter was so bemused with what he had heard that he missed much of what followed. He was indulging in dreams of great instruments of war which lifted black muzzles as sinister as the heads of dragons over rims of bastioned stone and belched forth the death-dealing mixture which Roger Bacon had discovered. Not for a single moment did he doubt the truth of what he had heard. When he was able to concentrate again on what was being said, the teacher had gone on to quite different matters.
He was speaking now of that faraway country known as Cathay. It lay far to the east, Walter knew, even beyond the kingdom of Prester John, and it was of a fabulous wealth. He pricked up his ears at once.
