This eBook was prepared by Les Bowler from the 1922 John Murray edition.
COUNT HANNIBAL
A ROMANCE OF THE COURT OF FRANCE.
by Stanley J. Weyman.
SORORI
SUÂ CAUSSÂ CARAE
PRO ERGA MATREM AMORE
ETIAM CARIORI
HOC FRATER.
CONTENTS
I. CRIMSON FAVOURS
II. HANNIBAL DE SAULX, COMTE DE TAVANNES
III. THE HOUSE NEXT THE GOLDEN MAID
IV. THE EVE OF THE FEAST
V. A ROUGH WOOING
VI. “WHO TOUCHES TAVANNES?”
VII. IN THE AMPHITHEATRE
VIII. TWO HENS AND AN EGG
IX. UNSTABLE
X. MADAME ST. LO
XI. A BARGAIN
XII. IN THE HALL OF THE LOUVRE
XIII. DIPLOMACY
XIV. TOO SHORT A SPOON
XV. THE BROTHER OF ST. MAGLOIRE
XVI. AT CLOSE QUARTERS
XVII. THE DUEL
XVIII. ANDROMEDA, PERSEUS BEING ABSENT
XIX. IN THE ORLÉANNAIS
XX. ON THE CASTLE HILL
XXI. SHE WOULD, AND WOULD NOT
XXII. PLAYING WITH FIRE
XXIII. A MIND, AND NOT A MIND
XXIV. AT THE KING’S INN
XXV. THE COMPANY OF THE BLEEDING HEART
XXVI. TEMPER
XXVII. THE BLACK TOWN
XXVIII. IN THE LITTLE CHAPTER-HOUSE
XXIX. THE ESCAPE
XXX. SACRILEGE!
XXXI. THE FLIGHT FROM ANGERS
XXXII. THE ORDEAL BY STEEL
XXXIII. THE AMBUSH
XXXIV. “WHICH WILL YOU, MADAME?”
XXXV. AGAINST THE WALL
XXXVI. HIS KINGDOM
CHAPTER I. CRIMSON FAVOURS.
M. de Tavannes smiled. Mademoiselle averted her eyes, and shivered; as if the air, even of that close summer night, entering by the door at her elbow, chilled her. And then came a welcome interruption.
“Tavannes!”
“Sire!”