Flower o' the Lily
A Romance of Old Cambray
by Baroness Orczy
London Hodder and
Stoughton and at New
York and Toronto
To
MY SON
JOHN MONTAGU ORCZY BARSTOW
2nd Lieut. 17th Lancers
I dedicate to you this story of the brave days of Old Cambray, as a token of fervent prayer that the valiant city will once again be freed from the thrall of foreign foes by your gallant comrades in arms, as she was in those far-off troublous times, which were so full of heroism and of romance.
EMMUSKA ORCZY
BEARSTED, 1918.
CONTENTS
CHAP.
I [How Messire Gilles de Crohin went for an Excursion into the Land of Dreams]
II [How a Noble Prince practised the Gentle Art of Procrastination]
III [How a Clever Woman outwitted an Obstinate Man]
IV [How 'Monsieur' kept his Word]
V [What Marguerite of Navarre did when she heard the News]
VI [What Monseigneur d'Inchy and Messire Gilles de Crohin Thought of One Another]
VII [Why Madame Jacqueline was so Late in Getting to Bed]
VIII [What Became of the Lilies]
IX [How Messire Gilles was Reminded of a Dream]
XII [How Two Letters came to be Written]
XIII [How Madame Jacqueline was Gravely Puzzled]
XIV [Which Treats of the Discomfiture of M. de Landas]
XV [How M. de Landas Practised the Gentle Art of Treachery]
XVI [What News Maître Jehan brought back with Him]
XVII [How Messire de Landas' Treachery bore Fruit]
XVIII [How a Second Awakening may be more Bitter than the First]
XIX [What Jacqueline was Forced to Hear]
XX [How More than one Plot was Hatched]
XXI [How Some of these Succeeded—]
XXIII [While Traitors are at Work]
XXV [How Cambray Starved and Endured]
XXVI [What Value a Valois Prince Set upon his Word]
XXVII [And this is the End of my Story]