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LONDON THE RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY 4 Bouverie Street and 65 St. Paul's Churchyard, E.C. 1917
First Edition, Oct., 1906 Second Impression, Oct., 1906 Third Impression, Oct., 1906 Fourth Impression, Dec., 1906 Fifth Impression, Jan., 1908 Sixth Impression, Aug., 1917
CHAPTER VIII. THE GOLDEN LARK IN ORLEANS TOWN
CHAPTER IX. THE REBELLION OF HERODIAS'S DAUGHTER
CHAPTER XI. THE BEST-KNOWN FACE IN THE WORLD
CHAPTER XXII. BERÁK THE LIGHTNING AND TOÀH HIS DOG
CHAPTER XXIII. THE THREE SONS OF MADAME AMÉLIE
CHAPTER XXIV. COUSIN RAPHAEL, LORD OF COLLIOURE
CHAPTER XXV. CLAIRE'S EMBARRASSMENT OF CHOICE
CHAPTER XXIX. THE SHUT HOUSE IN MONEY STREET
CHAPTER XXX. JEAN-AUX-CHOUX TAKES HIS WAGES
CHAPTER XXXI. THE WAY OF THE SALT MARSHES
CHAPTER XXXIV. BISHOP, ARCHBISHOP, AND ANGELICAL DOCTOR
CHAPTER XXXVIII. THE VENGEANCE OF VALENTINE LA NIÑA
CHAPTER XLII. SECRETS OF THE PRISON HOUSE
CHAPTER XLIV. VALENTINE AND HER VENGEANCE
CHAPTER XLV. VALENTINE FINDS CLAIRE WORTHY
The night was hot in Paris. Breathless heat had brooded over the city all Saturday, the 23rd of August, 1572. It was the eve of Saint Bartholomew. The bell of Saint Germain l'Auxerrois had just clashed out the signal. The Louvre was one blaze of lights. Men with lanterns and poleaxes, as if going to the shambles to kill oxen, hurried along the streets.
Only in the houses in which were lodged the great Huguenot gentlemen, come to the city for the marriage of the King's sister Marguerite to the King of Navarre, there were darkness and silence. None had warned them--or, at least, they had taken no warning. If any suspected, the word of a King, his sworn oaths and multitudinous safe-conducts, lulled them back again into security.
In one chamber, high above the courtyard, a light burned faint and steady. It was that beside the bed of the great Admiral--Coligny. He had been treacherously wounded by the arquebuse of one of the guard of the King's brother--Monsieur de France, Henry Duke of Anjou, afterwards to be known to history as Henry III., the favourite son of Catherine de Medici, the cunningest, and the most ungrateful.