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The Chaplet of Pearls by Yonge, Charlotte Mary, 1823-1901
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A word from our supporters: File extension LIVEUPDATE | Prepared by Hanh Vu, capriccio_vn@yahoo.com. A web page for Charlotte M Yonge will be found at www.menorot.com/cmyonge.htm THE CHAPLET OF PEARLS BY CHARLOTTE M.YONGE CONTENTS CHAPTER I. THE BRIDAL OF THE WHITE AND BLACK CHAPTER II. THE SEPARATION CHAPTER III. THE FAMILY COUNCIL CHAPTER IV. TITHONUS CHAPTER V. THE CONVENT BIRD CHAPTER VI. FOULLY COZENED CHAPTER VII. THE QUEEN'S PASTORAL CHAPTER VIII. 'LE BROUILLON' CHAPTER IX. THE WEDDING WITH CRIMSON FAVOURS CHAPTER X. MONSIEUR'S BALLET CHAPTER XI. THE KING'S TRAGEDY CHAPTER XII. THE PALACE OF SLAUGHTER CHAPTER XIII. THE BRIDEGROOM'S ARRIVAL CHAPTER XIV. SWEET HEART CHAPTER XV. NOTRE-DAME DE BELLAISE CHAPTER XVI. THE HEARTHS AND THICKETS OF THE BOCAGE CHAPTER XVII. THE GHOSTS OF THE TEMPLARS CHAPTER XVIII. THE MOONBEAM CHAPTER XIX. LA RUE DES TROIS FEES CHAPTER XX. THE ABBE CHAPTER XXI. UNDER THE WALNUT-TREE CHAPTER XXII. DEPARTURE CHAPTER XXIII. THE EMPTY CRADLE CHAPTER XXIV. THE GOOD PRIEST OF NISSARD CHAPTER XXV. THE VELVET COACH CHAPTER XXVI. THE CHEVALIER'S EXPIATION CHAPTER XXVII. THE DYING KING CHAPTER XXVIII. THE ORPHANS OF LA SABLERIE CHAPTER XXIX. IN THE KING'S NAME CHAPTER XXX. CAGED IN THE BLACKBIRD'S NEST CHAPTER XXXI. THE DARK POOL OF THE FUTURE CHAPTER XXXII. 'JAM SATIS' CHAPTER XXXIII. THE SCANDAL OF THE SYNOD OF MONTAUBAN CHAPTER XXXIV. MADAME LA DUCHESSE CHAPTER XXXV. THE ITALIAN PEDLAR CHAPTER XXXVI. SPELL AND POTION CHAPTER XXXVII. BEATING AGAINST THE BARS CHAPTER XXXVIII. THE ENEMY IN PRESENCE CHAPTER XXXIX. THE PEDLAR'S PREDICTION CHAPTER XL. THE SANDS OF OLONNE CHAPTER XLI. OUR LADY OF HOPE CHAPTER XLII. THE SILVER BULLET CHAPTER XLIII. LA BAISER D'EUSTACIE CHAPTER XLIV. THE GALIMAFRE PREFACE It is the fashion to call every story controversial that deals with times when controversy or a war of religion was raging; but it should be remembered that there are some which only attempt to portray human feelings as affected by the events that such warfare occasioned. 'Old Mortality' and 'Woodstock' are not controversial tales, and the 'Chaplet of Pearls' is so quite as little. It only aims at drawing certain scenes and certain characters as the convulsions of the sixteenth century may have affected them, and is, in fact, like all historical romance, the shaping of the conceptions that the imagination must necessarily form when dwelling upon the records of history. That faculty which might be called the passive fancy, and might almost be described in Portia's song, -- By READING fed - and there it dies,'-- |