I. [The Pretty Mask]
II. [A Case of Rapiers]
III. [The Château]
IV. [The Bond of Makrent]
V. [The Countess's Boudoir]
VI. [Madame opens the Trenches]
VII. [Charenton]
VIII. [The Marechal de Logis]
IX. [We Dine at the Fleur-de-lis]
X. [The Scots in France]
XI. [My First Parade]
XII. [The Moth and the Candle]
XIII. [Louis the Thirteenth]
XIV. [The Oak Cabinet]
XV. [Nicola]
XVI. [War]
XVII. [The March from Paris]
XVIII. [The Two Abbés]
XIX. [Tue Campaign in Alsace]
XX. [The Decoy]
XXI. [A Charge of the Scottish Guard]
XXII. [A Dangerous Boast]
XXIII. [The Bastion de Louise]
XXIV. [Montjoie St. Denis]
XXV. [Letters for Paris]
XXVI. [The Castle of Versailles]
XXVII. [Clara's Miniature—and how it proved a talisman]
XXVIII. [Marion de l'Orme]
XXIX. [Arrested]
XXX. [The Bastille]
XXXI. [Number 32]
XXXII. [Happiness]
XXXIII. [In which I become an Abbé]
XXXIV. [My Pretty Penitent]
XXXV. [In Love with a Soubrette]
XXXVI. [Our Journey together]
XXXVII. [A Haunted Forest]
XXXVIII. [What happened there]
XXXIX. [What happened after]
XL. [The Daughter of Macbeth]
XLI. [Startling Tidings]
XLII. [Vaudemont]
XLIII. [L'Homme propose—Dieu dispose]
XLIV. [Taken Prisoner]
XLV. [Nanci]
XLVI. [Surprise and Grief]
XLVII. [The Palace]
XLVIII. [Charles IV.]
XLIX. [Defiance]
L. [Rather Political]
LI. [A Last Interview]
LII. [The Chapel in the Wood]
LIII. [The Tower of Phalsbourg]
LIV. [The Count de Bitche]
LV. [The Turret]
LVI. [A Letter to Marie Louise]
LVII. [The Random Shot]
LVIII. [The Sally]
LIX. [The Parole]
LX. [A Rescue]
LXI. [Isabel Douglas]
LXII. [A Midnight March]
LXIII. [The Ambush]
LXIV. [Madame la Duchesse]
LXV. [Appointed Captain of Lutzelstein]
LXVI. [The Castle of Lutzelstein]
LXVII. [Viscount Dundbrennan]
LXVIII. [The Surprise]
LXIX. [Husband and Wife]
LXX. [A Catastrophe]
LXXI. [The Viscount's Advice]
LXXII. [The King's Mandate]
LXXIII. [How we Obeyed it]
PREFACE
In the following pages are narrated much of real life and adventure, with much that is historically true; but these passages I leave to the inquiring reader to discover or to separate. The localities are all described from old works or other sources, as they existed in the time of the hero.
Many of the characters are real, and belong to history, such as the Vicomte de Turenne, De Toneins, Vaudemont, Raoul d'Ische, the Marechal de la Force, the Marquis of Gordon, and others. The Count de Bitche was also a veritable personage who disgraced those days, and his abduction of the Countess of Lutzelstein was a real event.
The story of Tushielaw is an old Scottish legend.
So great was the French spirit for duelling in that age, that many of the clergy wore swords. Thus, in 1617, we find the Cardinal de Guise drawing his rapier upon the Duke of Nevers Gonzaga, and it is notorious that Cardinal de Retz fought a great many duels when, as an abbé, he was soliciting the Archbishopric of Paris.
Some notes of interest, regarding the Scots and Scottish Guard in France will be found at the end of this Romance, in which I have endeavoured to portray something of the free and reckless character of the French court and army during the reign of Louis XIII.,—a state of morals gradually introduced by his more dissolute predecessors, and which, under the Grand Monarque, increased, together with tyranny and misgovernment, until the foundations of the throne were sapped, the old dynasty of France expatriated, and her nobility destroyed.
Edinburgh, April 1858.