A Modern Telemachus

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Yonge Charlotte Mary. A Modern Telemachus

PREFACE

CHAPTER I—COMPANIONS OF THE VOYAGE

CHAPTER II—A JACOBITE WAIF

CHAPTER III—ON THE RHONE

CHAPTER IV—WRECKED

CHAPTER V—CAPTIVITY

CHAPTER VI—A MOORISH VILLAGE

CHAPTER VII—MASTER AND SLAVE

CHAPTER VIII—THE SEARCH

CHAPTER IX—ESCAPE

CHAPTER X—ON BOARD THE ‘CALYPSO’

CHAPTER XI—THE PIRATE CITY

CHAPTER XII—ON THE MOUNTAINS

CHAPTER XIII—CHRYSEIS AND BRISEIS

CHAPTER XIV—WELCOME

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‘Oh! brother, I wish they had named you Télémaque, and then it would have been all right!’

‘Why so, sister?  Why should I be called by so ugly a name?  I like Ulysses much better; and it is also the name of my papa.’

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The family were becoming almost French.  Sir Ulick was an intimate friend of one of the noblest men of the day, James Fitz-James, Marshal Duke of Berwick, who united military talent, almost equal to that of his uncle of Marlborough, to an unswerving honour and integrity very rare in those evil times.  Under him, Sir Ulick fought in the campaigns that finally established the House of Bourbon upon the throne of Spain, and the younger Ulick or Ulysse, as his name had been classicalised and Frenchified, was making his first campaign as a mere boy at the time of the battle of Almanza, that solitary British defeat, for which our national consolation is that the French were commanded by an Englishman, the Duke of Berwick, and the English by a Frenchman, the Huguenot Rubigné, Earl of Galway.  The first English charge was, however, fatal to the Chevalier Bourke, who fell mortally wounded, and in the endeavour to carry him off the field the faithful Callaghan likewise fell.  Sir Ulick lived long enough to be visited by the Duke, and to commend his children to his friend’s protection.

Berwick was held to be dry and stiff, but he was a faithful friend, and well redeemed his promise.  The eldest son, young as he was, obtained as wife the daughter of the Marquis de Varennes, and soon distinguished himself both in war and policy, so as to receive the title of Comte de Bourke.

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