CHAPTER XXXIV.
CHAPTER XXXV.
CHAPTER XXXVI.
CHAPTER XXXVII.
CONTENTS
CONTENTS
AUTHOR'S INTRODUCTION CHAPTER I. THE CONTRAST CHAPTER II. THE WANDERER CHAPTER III. THE CASTLE CHAPTER IV. THE DEJEUNER CHAPTER V. THE MAN AT ARMS CHAPTER VI. THE BOHEMIANS CHAPTER VII. THE ENROLMENT CHAPTER VIII. THE ENVOY CHAPTER IX. THE BOAR HUNT CHAPTER X. THE SENTINEL CHAPTER XI. THE HALL OF ROLAND CHAPTER XII. THE POLITICIAN CHAPTER XIII. THE JOURNEY CHAPTER XIV. THE JOURNEY CHAPTER XV. THE GUIDE CHAPTER XVI. THE VAGRANT CHAPTER XVII. THE ESPIED SPY CHAPTER XVIII. PALMISTRY CHAPTER XIX. THE CITY CHAPTER XX. THE BILLET CHAPTER XXI. THE SACK CHAPTER XXII. THE REVELLERS CHAPTER XXIII. THE FLIGHT CHAPTER XXIV. THE SURRENDER CHAPTER XXV. THE UNBIDDEN GUEST CHAPTER XXVI. THE INTERVIEW CHAPTER XXVII. THE EXPLOSION CHAPTER XXVIII. UNCERTAINTY CHAPTER XXIX. RECRIMINATION CHAPTER XXX. UNCERTAINTY CHAPTER XXXI. THE INTERVIEW CHAPTER XXXII. THE INVESTIGATION CHAPTER XXXIII. THE HERALD CHAPTER XXXIV. THE EXECUTION CHAPTER XXXV. A PRIZE FOR HONOUR CHAPTER XXXVI. THE SALLY CHAPTER XXXVII. THE SALLY
AUTHOR'S INTRODUCTION
The scene of this romance is laid in the fifteenth century, when the feudal system, which had been the sinews and nerves of national defence, and the spirit of chivalry, by which, as by a vivifying soul, that system was animated, began to be innovated upon and abandoned by those grosser characters who centred their sum of happiness in procuring the personal objects on which they had fixed their own exclusive attachment. The same egotism had indeed displayed itself even in more primitive ages; but it was now for the first time openly avowed as a professed principle of action. The spirit of chivalry had in it this point of excellence, that, however overstrained and fantastic many of its doctrines may appear to us, they
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