Chivalry
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About This Book
Inasmuch as it was by your command, illustrious and exalted lady, that I have gathered together these stories to form the present little book, you should the less readily suppose I have presumed to dedicate to your Serenity this trivial offering because of my esteeming it to be not undeserving of your acceptance.
Chapters (58)
- Chivalry
- James Branch Cabell
- Illustrated
- New York and London Harper & Brothers Publishers 1909
- TO Anne Branch Cabell
- "AINSI À VOUS, MADAME, À MA TRÈS HAULTE ET TRÈS NOBLE DAME, À QUI J'AYME À DEVOIR ATTACHEMENT ET OBÉISSANCE, J'ENVOYE CE LIVRET."
- Precautional
- Illustrations
- "'I SING OF DEATH'" . . . . . . . . . Frontispiece "THEY WERE OVERTAKEN BY FALMOUTH HIMSELF" "IN AN INSTANT THE PLACE RESOUNDED LIKE A SMITHY" "SHE HAD VIEWED THE GREAT CONQUEROR" "'MY PRISONER!' SHE SAID" "'DO YOU FORSAKE SIRE EDWARD, CATHERINE?'" "'HAIL YE THAT ARE MY KINSMEN!'" "IN THE LIKENESS OF A FAIR WOMAN" "'YOU DESIGN MURDER?' RICHARD ASKED" "'TAKE NOW YOUR PETTY VENGEANCE!'" "SO FOR A HEART-BEAT SHE SAW HIM" "NICOLAS: À SON LIVRET"
- The Prologue
- Chivalry
- The Prologue
- À sa Dame
- I The Story of the Sestina
- The Story of the Sestina
- "THEY WERE OVERTAKEN BY FALMOUTH HIMSELF" Painting by Howard Pyle
- THE END OF THE FIRST NOVEL
- II The Story of the Tenson
- The Story of the Tenson
- "IN AN INSTANT THE PLACE RESOUNDED LIKE A SMITHY" Painting by William Hurd Lawrence
- THE END OF THE SECOND NOVEL
- III The Story of the Rat-Trap
- The Story of the Rat-Trap
- "SHE HAD VIEWED THE GREAT CONQUEROR" Painting by Howard Pyle
- THE END OF THE THIRD NOVEL
- IV The Story of the Choices
- The Story of the Choices
- "'MY PRISONER!' SHE SAID" Painting by Howard Pyle
- THE END OF THE FOURTH NOVEL
- V The Story of the Housewife
- The Story of the Housewife
- "DO YOU FORSAKE SIRE EDWARD, CATHERINE?" Painting by William Hurd Lawrence
- THE END OF THE FIFTH NOVEL
- VI The Story of the Satraps
- The Story of the Satraps
- "'HAIL YE THAT ARE MY KINSMEN!'" Painting by Howard Pyle
- THE END OF THE SIXTH NOVEL
- VII The Story of the Heritage
- The Story of the Heritage
- "IN THE LIKENESS OF A FAIR WOMAN" Painting by Howard Pyle
- THE END OF THE SEVENTH NOVEL
- VIII The Story of the Scabbard
- The Story of the Scabbard
- "YOU DESIGN MURDER? RICHARD ASKED" Painting by Howard Pyle
- THE END OF THE EIGHTH NOVEL
- IX The Story of the Navarrese
- The Story of the Navarrese
- "'TAKE NOW YOUR PETTY VENGEANCE!'" Painting by Elisabeth Shippen Green
- THE END OF THE NINTH NOVEL
- X The Story of the Fox-Brush
- The Story of the Fox-Brush
- "SO FOR A HEARTBEAT SHE SAW HIM" Painting by Howard Pyle
- THE END OF THE TENTH NOVEL
- The Epilogue
- The Epilogue
- A son Livret
- "NICOLAS: À SON LIVRET" Painting by Howard Pyle
- EXPLICIT DECAS REGINARUM
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