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Charlotte M. Yonge
Stray Pearls: Memoirs of Margaret De Ribaumont, Viscountess of Bellaise
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4064066247164
Table of Contents
MEMOIRS OF MARGARET DE RIBAUMONT, VISCOUNTESS OF BELLAISE
CHAPTER I. — WHITEHALL BEFORE THE COBWEBS.
CHAPTER II. — A LITTLE MUTUAL AVERSION.
CHAPTER III. — CELADON AND CHLOE
CHAPTER VI. — VICTORY DEARLY BOUGHT
CHAPTER VIII. — MARGUERITE TO THE RESCUE.
CHAPTER IX. — THE FIREBRAND OF THE BOCAGE.
CHAPTER X. — OLD THREADS TAKEN UP.
CHAPTER XII. — CAVALIERS IN EXILE.
CHAPTER XIII. — MADEMOISELLE’S TOILETTE.
CHAPTER XIV. — COURT APPOINTMENT
CHAPTER XV. — A STRANGER THANKSGIVING DAY.
CHAPTER XVII. — A PATIENT GRISEL
CHAPTER XVIII. — TWELFTH NIGHT, OR WHAT YOU WILL.
CHAPTER XXI. — ST. MARGARET AND THE DRAGON
CHAPTER XXII. — ST. MARGARET AND THE DRAGON
CHAPTER XXIII. — THE LION AND THE MOUSE
CHAPTER XXVII. — THE EXPEDIENT
CHAPTER XXVIII. — THE BOEUF GRAS
CHAPTER XXIX. — MADAME’S OPPORTUNITY
CHAPTER XXX. — THE NEW MAID OF ORLEANS
CHAPTER XXXI. — PORTE ST. ANTOINE
CHAPTER XXXIII. — BRIDAL PEARLS
CHAPTER XXXIV. — ANNORA’S HOME
PREFACE
No one can be more aware than the author that the construction of this tale is defective. The state of French society, and the strange scenes of the Fronde, beguiled me into a tale which has become rather a family record than a novel.
Formerly the Muse of the historical romance was an independent and arbitrary personage,