Snake and Sword: A Novel
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About This Book
When Colonel Matthew Devon de Warrenne, V.C., D.S.O., of the Queen’s Own (118th) Bombay Lancers, pinned his Victoria Cross to the bosom of his dying wife’s night-dress, in token of his recognition that she was the braver of the twain, he was not himself.
Chapters (22)(click to expand)
- Snake and Sword
- A Novel
- CONTENTS
- PART I. THE WELDING OF A SOUL.
- CHAPTER I. THE SNAKE AND THE SOUL.
- PART II. THE SEARING OF A SOUL.
- CHAPTER II. THE SWORD AND THE SNAKE.
- CHAPTER III. THE SNAKE APPEARS.
- CHAPTER IV. THE SWORD AND THE SOUL.
- CHAPTER V. LUCILLE.
- CHAPTER VI. THE SNAKE’S “MYRMIDON”.
- CHAPTER VII. LOVE—AND THE SNAKE.
- CHAPTER VIII. TROOPERS OF THE QUEEN.
- CHAPTER IX. A SNAKE AVENGES A HADDOCK AND LUCILLE BEHAVES IN AN UN-SMELLIEAN MANNER.
- CHAPTER X. MUCH ADO ABOUT ALMOST NOTHING—A TROOPER.
- CHAPTER XI. MORE MYRMIDONS.
- PART III. THE SAVING OF A SOUL
- CHAPTER XII. VULTURES AND LUCK—GOOD AND BAD.
- CHAPTER XIII. FOUND.
- CHAPTER XIV. THE SNAKE AND THE SWORD.
- SEVEN YEARS AFTER.
- EPILOGUE.
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