Armorel of Lyonesse

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Walter Besant. Armorel of Lyonesse

Armorel of Lyonesse

Table of Contents

PART I CHAPTER I THE CHILD OF SAMSON

CHAPTER II. PRESENTED BY THE SEA

CHAPTER III. IN THE BAR PARLOUR

CHAPTER IV. THE GOLDEN TORQUE

CHAPTER V. THE ENCHANTED ISLAND

CHAPTER VI. THE FLOWER-FARM

CHAPTER VII. A VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY

CHAPTER VIII. THE VOYAGERS

CHAPTER IX. THE LAST DAY BUT ONE

CHAPTER X. MR. FLETCHER RETURNS FOR HIS BAG

CHAPTER XI. ROLAND'S LETTER

CHAPTER XII. THE CHANGE

CHAPTER XIII. ARMOREL'S INHERITANCE

PART II. CHAPTER I. SWEET COZ

CHAPTER II. THE SONATA

CHAPTER III. THE CLEVEREST MAN IN LONDON

CHAPTER IV. MASTER OF ALL THE ARTS

CHAPTER V. ONLY A SIMPLE SERVICE

CHAPTER VI. THE OTHER STUDIO

CHAPTER VII. A CANDID OPINION

CHAPTER VIII. ALL ABOUT MYSELF

CHAPTER IX. TO MAKE HIM HAPPY

CHAPTER X. THE SECRET OF THE TWO PICTURES

CHAPTER XI. A CRITIC ON TRUTH

CHAPTER XII. TO MAKE THAT PROMISE SURE

CHAPTER XIII. THE DRAMATIST

CHAPTER XIV. AN HONOURABLE PROPOSAL

CHAPTER XV. NOT TWO MEN, BUT ONE

CHAPTER XVI. THE PLAY AND THE COMEDY

CHAPTER XVII. THE NATIONAL GALLERY

CHAPTER XVIII. CONGRATULATIONS

CHAPTER XIX. WHAT NEXT?

CHAPTER XX. A RECOVERY AND A FLIGHT

CHAPTER XXI. ALL LOST BUT——

CHAPTER XXII. THE END OF WORLDLY TROUBLES

CHAPTER XXIII. THE HOUR OF TRIUMPH

CHAPTER XXIV. THE CUP AND THE LIP

CHAPTER XXV. TO FORGET IT ALL

CHAPTER XXVI. NOT THE HEIR, AFTER ALL

CHAPTER XXVII. THE DESERT ISLAND

CHAPTER XXVIII. AT HOME

CHAPTER XXIX. THE TRESPASS OFFERING

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Walter Besant

A Romance of To-day

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'We should have been lost,' said the artist, 'but for a—young lady, who saw our danger and came out to us.'

'Armorel. I saw her towing in your boat and landing you. Yes, it was a mighty lucky job that she saw you in time. There's a girl! Not yet sixteen years old! Yet I'd rather trust myself with her in a boat, especially if she had the boy Peter with her, than any boatman of the islands. And there's not a rock or an islet, not a bay or a headland in this country of bays and capes and rocks, that she does not know. She could find her way blindfold by the feel of the wind and the force of the current. But it's in her blood. Father to son—father to son and daughter too—the Roseveans are born boatmen.'

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