House of Torment

About this eBook

Author

Thorne, Guy, 1875-1923

Title

House of Torment A Tale of the Remarkable Adventures of Mr. John Commendone, Gentleman to King Phillip II of Spain at the English Court

Credits

E-text prepared by Mark C. Orton, Mary Meehan, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive ( www.archive.org)

Language

English

LoC Class

PR: Language and Literatures: English literature

Subject

Spaniards -- England -- Fiction

Category

Text

eBook-No.

36721

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/36721

Release Date

July 13, 2011

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.E-text prepared by Mark C. Orton, Mary Meehan, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( http://www.pgdp.net ) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive ( http://www.archive.org ) — HOUSE OF TORMENT — A Tale of the Remarkable Adventures of MR. JOHN COMMENDONE Gentleman to King Philip II of Spain at the English Court
2. 2.By C. RANGER-GULL — Author of "The Serf," etc. — NEW YORK DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY 1911 — Published September, 1911 THE QUINN & BODEN CO. PRESS RAHWAY, N. J. — DEDICATION TO DAVID WHITELAW — SOUVENIR OF A LONG FRIENDSHIP
3. 3.CONTENTS
4. 4.CHAPTER I — IN THE QUEEN'S CLOSET; THE FOUR FACES
5. 5.CHAPTER II — THE HOUSE OF SHAME; THE LADDER OF GLORY
6. 6.CHAPTER III — THE MEETING WITH JOHN HULL AT CHELMSFORD
7. 7.CHAPTER IV — PART TAKEN IN AFFAIRS BY THE HALF TESTOON
8. 8.CHAPTER V — THE FINDING OF ELIZABETH
9. 9.CHAPTER VI — A KING AND A VICTIM. TWO GRIM MEN
10. 10.CHAPTER VII — HEY HO! AND A RUMBELOW!
11. 11.CHAPTER VIII — "WHY, WHO BUT YOU, JOHNNIE!"
12. 12.CHAPTER IX — "MISERICORDIA ET JUSTITIA" — ( The ironic motto of the Spanish Inquisition )
13. 13.CHAPTER X — THE SILENT MEN IN BLACK
14. 14.CHAPTER XI — IN THE BOX
15. 15.CHAPTER XII — "TENDIMUS IN LATIUM"

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