ALEXANDRE DUMAS.
Reading edition
IN THREE VOLUMES.
VOL. III.
LONDON: J. M. DENT & CO.
BOSTON, LITTLE, BROWN, & CO.
1894.
The Fatal Joust.
ILLUSTRATIONS
ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATIONS
DRAWN AND ETCHED BY E. VAN MUYDEN.
The Fatal Joust
A Criminal's Speech against himself
The Forest of Château-Regnault
CONTENTS
Chapter I. Wherein It Seems As If The Misunderstandings Were About To Begin Again II. A Criminal's Speech against Himself III. Justice IV. Two Letters V. A Protestant Conventicle VI. Another Trial VII. A Perilous Step VIII. The Imprudence of Precaution IX. Opportunity X. Between two Duties XI. Omens XII. The Fatal Joust XIII. A New Order of Affairs XIV. Results of Gabriel's Vengeance XV. Change of Temperature XVI. Guise and Coligny XVII. Reports and Denunciations XVIII. A Spy XIX. An Informer XX. A Child King and Queen XXI. End of the Italian Journey XXII. Two Appeals XXIII. A Perilous Confidence XXIV. The Disloyalty of Loyalty XXV. The Beginning of the End XXVI. The Forest of Château-Begnault XXVII. A Glimpse at the Politics of the Sixteenth Century XXVIII. The Tumult of Amboise XXIX. An Act of Faith XXX. Another Specimen of Politics XXXI. A Ray of Hope XXXII. Well-Guarded Slumber XXXIII. A King's Death-Bed XXXIV. Adieu, France! Conclusion