Alfred de Vigny
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Cinq Mars, v1
Literature This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 Excerpt: ...de Gondi,1 who prowled near me, and seemed to have something hidden under his sleeve; it was he that made me get into the coach.\" \"Apropos of the abbe\", my Lord, the queen insists upon making him coadjutor.\" \"She's mad! he will ruin her if she connects herself with him; he's a musketeer in canonicals, the Devil in a cassock. Read his 'Histoirc de Fiesque;' you may see himself in it. He will be nothing while I live.\" \"How is it that with a judgment like yours you bring another ambitious man of his age to court?\" \"It is an entirely different matter. This young CinqMars, my friend, will be a puppet, a mere puppet. He will think of nothing but his ruff and his shoulderknots; his handsome figure assures me of this. I know that he is gentle and infirm of purpose; it was for this reason I preferred him to his elder brother. He will do all we wish.\" \"Ah, my Lord,\" said the monk, with an expression of doubt, \"I never place much reliance on people whose exterior is so calm; the flame within is often all the more dangerous. Recollect the Mare'chal d'Effiat, his father.\" 1 Afterwards the Cardinal de Retz. \"But I tell you he is a boy, and I shall bring him up; while Gondi is already an accomplished conspirator, an ambitious knave who sticks at nothing. He has dared to dispute Madame de la Meilleraie with me. Can you conceive it? He dispute with me! A petty priestling, who has no other merit than a little lively tittle-tattle and a cavalier air. Fortunately, the husband himself took care to get rid of him.\" Father Joseph, who listened with equal impatience to his master when he spoke of his bonnes fortunes and when he talked of his verses, made, however, a grimace which he meant to be very sl... You might like
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Norman Springer It was the writing guy who drew this story out of Captain Shreve. He talked so much I think the Old Man spun the yarn just to shut him up. He had talked ever since his arrival on board, early that morning, with a letter from the owners' agent, and the announcement he intended making the voyage with us. He had weak lungs, he said, and was in search of mild, tropical breezes. Also, he was seeking local color, and whatever information he could pick up about "King" Waldon.He had heard of the death of "King" Waldon, down in Samoa—Waldon, the trader, of the vanishing race of island adventurers—and he expected to travel about the south seas investigating the "king's" past, so he could write a book about the old viking. He had heard that Captain Shreve had known Waldon. Hence, he was honoring a cargo carrier with his presence instead of taking his ease upon a mail-boat.Captain Shreve must tell him all he knew about the "king." He was intensely interested in the subject. Splendid material, you know. That romantic legend of Waldon's arrival in the islands—too good to be true, and certainly too good not to put into a book. Was Captain Shreve familiar with the tale? How this fellow, Waldon, sailed into a Samoan harbor in an open boat, his only companion his beautiful young wife? Imagine—this man and woman coming from nowhere, sailing in from the open sea in a small boat, never telling whence they came!He said this was the stuff to go into his book. Romance, mystery! It was quite as important as the later and better known incidents in the "king's" life. That was why Captain Shreve must tell him all he knew about the fellow. If he could only get at the beginning of the "king's" career in the islands. Where did the fellow come from? Why should a man bring his bride into an uncivilized and lawless section of the world, and settle down for life? There must be a story in that. Ah, yes, and he was the man who could properly do it. The Talisman
Walter Scott "The Talisman" is a novel by Sir Walter Scott. It was published in 1825 as the second of his "Tales of the Crusaders", the first being "The Betrothed". "The Talisman" takes place at the end of the Third Crusade, mostly in the camp of the Crusaders in Palestine. Scheming and partisan politics, as well as the illness of King Richard the Lionheart, are placing the Crusade in danger. The main characters are the Scottish knight Kenneth, who is a fictional character version of David of Scotland, Earl of Huntingdon, who did in fact return from the third Crusade in 1190, Richard the Lionheart, Saladin, and Edith 
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