The Project Gutenberg E-text of Idonia: A Romance of Old London
by Arthur Frederick Wallis
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About this eBook
- Author
- Wallis, Arthur Frederick, 1874-
- Title
- Idonia: A Romance of Old London
- Credits
- Produced by Al Haines
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PR: Language and Literatures: English literature
- Subject
- Great Britain -- History -- Elizabeth, 1558-1603 -- Fiction
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 34105
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34105
- Release Date
- October 20, 2010
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.The great ledger-book—which I now saw turned to an engine of our salvation. Chapter XIV — IDONIA:
- 2.A ROMANCE OF OLD LONDON — BY — ARTHUR F. WALLIS — ILLUSTRATED BY — CHARLES E. BROCK — BOSTON LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY 1914 — AUTHOR'S NOTE
- 3.CONTENTS
- 4.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS — THE GREAT LEDGER-BOOK—WHICH I NOW SAW TURNED TO AN ENGINE OF OUR SALVATION . . . Frontispiece — THE ARGUMENT BETWEEN MR. SKEGS AND PTOLEMY — MR. JORDAN REGARDED ME VERY MOURNFULLY — "YOU CANNOT BE IGNORANT THAT THIS AFFAIR IS LIKE TO END BADLY FOR YOU, MR. DENIS"
- 5.IDONIA — CHAPTER I — IN WHICH I LEARN FOR THE FIRST TIME THAT I HAVE AN UNCLE — CHAPTER II — IN WHICH PTOLEMY PHILPOT COMMENCES HIS STUDY OF THE LATIN TONGUE — The argument between Mr. Skegs & Ptolemy. Chapter II — CHAPTER III — HOW A BROTHER, HAVING OFFENDED, WAS FORGIVEN — CHAPTER IV — IN WHICH I SAY FAREWELL THRICE — CHAPTER V — PRINCIPALLY TELLS HOW SIR MATTHEW JUKE WAS CAST AWAY UPON THE HEBRIDES — CHAPTER VI — HOW THE OLD SCHOLAR AND I CAME TO LONDON — CHAPTER VII — IN WHICH I CONCEIVE A DISLIKE OF AN EARL'S SERVANT AND AN AFFECTION FOR A MAN OF LAW — CHAPTER VIII — A CHAPTER OF CHEATS — CHAPTER IX — TELLS HOW I CHANGED MY LODGING AND LOST MY MARE — CHAPTER X — HOW I SAW AN ENEMY AT THE WINDOW — CHAPTER XI — IS SUFFICIENT IN THAT IT TELLS OF IDONIA — CHAPTER XII — HOW MR. JORDAN COULD NOT RUN COUNTER TO THE COURSE OF NATURE — Mr. Jordan regarded me very mournfully. Chapter XII — CHAPTER XIII — PETTY WALES — CHAPTER XIV — HOW IDONIA TAUGHT ME AND A CAPTAIN OF THE GUARD HOW TO KEEP BOOKS — CHAPTER XV — IN WHICH I BEGIN TO EARN MY LIVING — CHAPTER XVI — THE SIEGE OF PETTY WALES — CHAPTER XVII — HOW I FOUND AN OLD FRIEND IN A STRANGE PLACE, AND HOW PTOLEMY RENEWED HIS STUDY OF THE LATIN TONGUE — CHAPTER XVIII — IN WHICH I RECEIVE A COMMISSION AND SUFFER A CHECK — CHAPTER XIX — IN WHICH I COME TO GRIPS WITH MR. MALPAS — "You cannot be ignorant that this affair is like to end badly for you, Mr. Denis." Chapter XIX — CHAPTER XX — THE ADVENTURE OF THE CHINESE JAR — CHAPTER XXI — THE "FAIR HAVEN" OF WAPPING — CHAPTER XXII — HOW MY UNCLE BOTOLPH LOST HIS LUCK — CHAPTER XXIII — THE VOYAGE OF THE SARACEN'S HEAD — CHAPTER XXIV — THE TEMPLE BENEATH THE WATERS — CHAPTER XXV — IW WHICH THE SHIPS OF WAR GO BY AND THE TALE ENDS
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