THE SCOURGE OF GOD
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A ROMANCE OF RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION
BY
JOHN BLOUNDELLE-BURTON.
AUTHOR OF DENOUNCED, IN THE DAY OF ADVERSITY, ETC.
"Prince! que j'ai honoré comme mon Roi, et que j'honore encore comme Le Fléau de Dieu!"
Saurin à Louis XIV
NEW YORK D. APPLETON AND COMPANY 1898
Copyright, 1898, By D. APPLETON AND COMPANY.
CONTENTS.
I. Awaiting the traveller. II. The traveller from England. III. A parting soul. IV. Les attroupés. V. 'Twixt then and now.
VI. "La femme, malheureusement si fameuse, funeste et terrible."--St. Simon.
VII. The house by the bridge. VIII. An exodus.
IX. "Baville! un magistrat dont les epouvantables rigueurs doivent être signalée à l'horreur de la postérité"--St. Simon.
X. The lighted torch. XI. "Consorting with heretics." XII. "I am a Protestant." XIII. Urbaine. XIV. The attack. XV. Shelter and refuge. XVI. Succour. XVII. The ruse. XVIII. La divinéresse. XIX. Lex talionis. XX. What is this mystery? XXI. "You will never find him." XXII. I love you. XXIII. "Love her! Beyond all thought! And she is there." XXIV. "An errand of life or death." XXV. Par le fer et par le feu. XXVI. Doomed. XXVII. Her father, Urbain Ducaire. XXVIII. Baville--superb! XXIX. "Her father's murderer." XXX. Free. XXXI. Betrayed. XXXII. The bitterness of death. XXX. Tout savoir, c'est pardonner.