A GENTLEMAN PLAYER
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Works of ROBERT NEILSON STEPHENS An Enemy to the King (Twentieth Thousand) The Continental Dragoon (Seventeenth Thousand) The Road to Paris (Sixteenth Thousand) A Gentleman Player (Sixth Thousand) L. C. Page_AND COMPANY, Publishers (Incorporated) 196 Summer St., Boston, Mass.
QUEEN ELIZABETH AND HARRY MARRYOTT.
(See Page 87.)
A
GENTLEMAN PLAYER
His Adventures on a Secret Mission for Queen Elizabeth
BY
ROBERT NEILSON STEPHENS
AUTHOR OF "AN ENEMY TO THE KING," "THE CONTINENTAL DRAGOON," "THE ROAD TO PARIS," ETC.
"And each man in his time plays many parts." —As You Like It.
BOSTON L. C. Page_AND COMPANY (INCORPORATED) 1899 -
Copyright, 1899 By L. C. Page_and Company (INCORPORATED) 1899
Colonial Press: Electrotyped and Printed by C. H. Simonds & Co. Boston, Mass., U. S. A.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE
I. The First Performance of "Hamlet" 11
II. At The Taverns 36
III. Queen and Woman 69
IV. The Unexpected 93
V. The Player Proves Himself a Gentleman 104
VI. And the Gentleman Proves Himself a Player 116
VII. Mistress Anne Hazlehurst 129
VIII. "A Devil of a Woman" 137
IX. The First Day of the Flight 152
X. The Locked Door 174
XI. Wine and Song 184
XII. The Constable of Clown 199
XIII. The Prisonner in the Coach 220
XIV. How the Page Walked in His Sleep 233
XV. Treachery 251
XVI. Foxby Hall 276
XVII. A Woman's Victory 295
XVIII. The Horsemen Arrive 309
XIX. The Horsemen Depart 320
XX. Roger Barnet Sits Down to Smoke Some Tobacco 332
XXI. Roger Barnet Continues to Smoke Tobacco 342
XXII. Speech without words 360
XXIII. The London Road 368
XXIV. How a New Incident Was Added to an Old Play 375
XXV. Sir Harry and Lady Marryott 398
Notes 409
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
PAGE
Queen Elizabeth And Harry Marryott Frontispiece
"She Gave No Outward Sign Of Anger" 190
"The Brazen Notes Clove The Air" 267
"Rumney ... Backed Quickly To The Window, And Mounted The Ledge" 327