The Project Gutenberg E-text of My Sword's My Fortune
by Herbert Hayens
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About this eBook
- Author
- Hayens, Herbert, 1861-1944
- Title
- My Sword's My Fortune: A Story of Old France
- Credits
- Produced by Al Haines
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PR: Language and Literatures: English literature
- Subject
- France -- History -- 17th century -- Fiction
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 27325
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/27325
- Release Date
- November 25, 2008
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.MY SWORD'S MY FORTUNE
- 2.A STORY OF OLD FRANCE — BY
- 3.HERBERT HAYENS — LONDON AND GLASGOW COLLINS' CLEAR-TYPE PRESS 1904
- 4.Contents.
- 5.Illustrations — "The air was filled with the clatter of steel." — "The nobleman caught and fixed him." — "Keep this in remembrance of this day." — CHAPTER I. — I Go to Paris. — CHAPTER II. — La Boule d'Or. — CHAPTER III. — I Enter the Astrologer's House. — CHAPTER IV. — I Meet the Cardinal. — CHAPTER V. — The Reception at the Luxembourg. — CHAPTER VI. — Was I Mistaken? — CHAPTER VII. — The Cardinal takes an Evening Walk. — CHAPTER VIII. — The Plot is Discovered. — CHAPTER IX. — I Meet with an Exciting Adventure. — "The air was filled with the clatter of steel." — CHAPTER X. — Pillot to the Rescue. — CHAPTER XI. — A Scheme that Went Amiss — CHAPTER XII. — I have a Narrow Escape. — CHAPTER XIII. — I again Encounter Maubranne. — CHAPTER XIV. — I Fall into a Trap. — CHAPTER XV. — Under Watch and Ward. — CHAPTER XVI. — I become a Prisoner of the Bastille. — CHAPTER XVII. — Free! — CHAPTER XVIII. — The Fight on the Staircase. — CHAPTER XIX. — I Lose all Trace of Henri. — "The nobleman caught and fixed him." — CHAPTER XX. — News at Last. — CHAPTER XXI — The Death of Henri. — CHAPTER XXII. — The Mob Rises. — CHAPTER XXIII. — The Ladies Leave Paris. — CHAPTER XXIV. — Captain Courcy Outwitted. — CHAPTER XXV. — I Miss a Grand Opportunity. — CHAPTER XXVI. — "Vive le Roi!" — CHAPTER XXVII. — The King Visits Raoul. — "Keep this in remembrance of this day." — CHAPTER XXVIII. — "Remember the Porte St. Antoine." — CHAPTER XXIX. — Mazarin Triumphant.
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