e Arrival of the Count de la Roche, and the various
Excitement produced on many Personages by that Event
VII The Renowned Combat between Sir Anthony Woodville and the
Bastard of Burgundy
VIII How the Bastard of Burgundy prospered more in his Policy than
With the Pole-axe--and how King Edward holds his Summer
Chase in the Fair Groves of Shene
IX The Great Actor returns to fill the Stage
X How the Great Lords come to the King-maker, and with what
Proffers
BOOK V
THE LAST OF THE BARONS IN HIS FATHERS HALLS
CHAPTER
I Rural England in the Middle Ages--Noble Visitors seek the
Castle
Of Middleham
II Councils and Musings
III The Sisters
IV The Destrier
BOOK VI
WHEREIN ARE OPENED SOME GLIMPSES OF THE FATE BELOW THAT ATTENDS THOSE
WHO ARE BETTER THAN OTHERS, AND THOSE WHO DESIRE TO MAKE OTHERS
BETTER. LOVE, DEMAGOGY, AND SCIENCE ALL EQUALLY OFF-SPRING OF THE
SAME PROLIFIC DELUSION,--NAMELY, THAT MEAN SOULS (THE EARTH'S
MAJORITY) ARE WORTH THE HOPE AND THE AGONY OF NOBLE SOULS, THE
EVERLASTING SUFFERING AND ASPIRING FEW.
CHAPTER
I New Dissentions
II The Would-be Improvers of Jove's Football, Earth--The Sad
Father and the Sad Child--The Fair Rivals
III Wherein the Demagogue seeks the Courtier
IV Sibyll
V Katherine
VI Joy for Adam, and Hope for Sibyll--and Popular Friar Bungey!
VII A Love Scene
BOOK VII
THE POPULAR REBELLION
CHAPTER
I The White Lion of March shakes his Mane
II The Camp at Olney
III The Camp of the Rebels
IV The Norman Earl and the Saxon Demagogue confer
V What Faith Edward IV purposeth to keep with Earl and People
VI What befalls King Edward on his Escape from Olney
VII How King Edward arrives at the Castle of Middleham
VIII The Ancients rightly gave to the Goddess of Eloquence a Crown
IX Wedded Confidence and Love--the Earl and the Prelate--the
Prelate and the King--Schemes--Wiles--and the Birth of a
Dark Thought destined to eclipse a Sun
BOOK VIII
IN WHICH THE LAST LINK BETWEEN KING-MAKER AND KING SNAPS ASUNDER
CHAPTER
I The Lady Anne visits the Court
II The Sleeping Innocence--the Wakeful Crime
III New Dangers to the House of York--and the King's Heart
allies its
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