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Stanley Weyman

Todellinen aatelismiesStanley John Weyman Todellinen aatelismies: Historiallinen romaani I. Hupsujen huvittelua Condén prinssin kuolema, joka sattui keväällä 1588, jätti minut kokonaan ilman suojelijaa ja saattoi minut niin ahtaisiin olosuhteisiin, että mainitun vuoden talvi, joka näki Navarran k...

The Red CockadeWeyman Stanley John The Red Cockade CHAPTER I. THE MARQUIS DE ST. ALAIS When we reached the terraced walk, which my father made a little before his death, and which, running under the windows at the rear of the Château, separates the house from the new lawn, St. Alais looked round ...

The SnowballWeyman Stanley John The Snowball THE SNOWBALL The slight indisposition from which the Queen suffered in the spring of 1602, and which was occasioned by a cold caught during her lying-in, by diverting the King's attention from matters of State, had the effect of doubling the burden cas...

For the CauseWeyman Stanley John For the Cause FOR THE CAUSE I Paris had never seemed to the eye more peaceful than on a certain November evening in the year 1589: and this although many a one within its walls resented the fineness of that night as a mockery, a scoff at the pain of some and the f...

Laid up in LavenderWeyman Stanley John Laid up in Lavender LADY BETTY'S INDISCRETION "Horry! I am sick to death of it!"There was a servant in the room collecting the tea-cups; but Lady Betty Stafford, having been reared in the purple, was not to be deterred from speaking her mind by a servant. He...

My Lady Rotha: A RomanceWeyman Stanley John My Lady Rotha: A Romance CHAPTER I. HERITZBURG I never saw anything more remarkable than the change which the death of my lady's uncle, Count Tilly, in the spring of 1632, worked at Heritzburg. Until the day when that news reached us, we went on in our ...

The Wild GeeseWeyman Stanley John The Wild Geese CHAPTER I ON BOARD THE "CORMORANT" SLOOP Midway in that period of Ireland's history during which, according to historians, the distressful country had none – to be more precise, on a spring morning early in the eighteenth century, and the reign of ...

A Little WizardWeyman Stanley John A Little Wizard CHAPTER I. PATTENHALL When the agent of General Skippon, to whom the estate of Pattenhall by Ripon fell, as part of his reward after the battle of Naseby, went down to take possession, he found a little boy sitting on a heap of stones a few paces...

The Abbess Of VlayeWeyman Stanley John The Abbess Of Vlaye INTRODUCTION. A KING IN COUNCIL Monsieur des Ageaux was a man of whom his best friends could not say that he shone, or tried to shine, in the pursuit of the fair sex. He was of an age, something over thirty, when experience renders more f...

Chippinge BoroughWeyman Stanley John Chippinge Borough I THE DISSOLUTION Boom!It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. He wore shepherd's plaid trousers and the swallow-tail coat of the day, with a figured muslin cravat wound about h...