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CONTENTS OF VOL. II.

CHAP. PAGE
I.[ "In opposition against fate and hell" ]1
II.[ "I stand upon the ground of mine own honour" ]22
III.[ "They were born poor, lived poor, and poor they died" ]39
IV.[ "You stop my tongue, and teach my heart to speak" ]75
V.[ "And in such choice shall stand my wealth and woe" ]90
VI.[ "The ladies there must needs be rooks" ]113
VII.[ "In playhouse and in park above the rest" ]141
VIII.[ "Yet i am in love, and pleased with ruin" ]184
IX.[ "And, lo! my world is bankrupt of delight" ]210
X.[ "Forget, renounce me, hate whate'er was mine" ]224
XI.[ "And we shall fade, and leave our task undone" ]242
XII.[ "By foreign hands they dying eyes were closed" ]269

MOHAWKS


CHAPTER I.

"IN OPPOSITION AGAINST FATE AND HELL."

"Herrick," said Lavendale suddenly next day, when the two friends were alone together in the Abbey hall, a spacious chamber, half armoury, half picture-gallery, rich alike in the damascened steel of Damascus and Toledo and in the angular saints and virgins of the early Italian painters; "Herrick, you are making love to my heiress; you are cutting off my advance to El Dorado; you are playing the part of a traitor."