Ascanio Vol 2 - Classic Reprint Author:Alexandre Dumas It was the day on which Colombe was to be presented to the queen. — The whole court was assembled in one of the state apartments at the Louvre. After hearing mass the court was to depart for Saint-Germain, and they were awaiting the coming of the king and queen to go to the chapel. Except a few ladies who were seated, everybody was moving about f... more »rom place to place, laughing and talking. There was the rustle of silks and brocades, and the clash of swords; loving and defiant glances were exchanged, together with arrangements for future meetings, of amorous or deadly purport. It was a dazzling, bewildering scene of confusion and splendor; the costumes were superb, and cut in the latest style; among them, adding to the rich and interesting variety, were pages, dressed in the Italian or Spanish fashion, standing like statues, with arms akimbo, and swords at their sides. It was a picture overflowing with animation and magnificence, of which all that we could say would be but a very feeble and
Table of Contents
I The Trafficker in his own Honor 1 II Four Varieties of Brigands 28; III An Autumn Night's Dream43; IV Stefana54; V Domiciliary Visits68; VI Charles the Fifth at Fontainebleau 83; VII The Ghostly Monk100; VIII What One sees at Night from the Top; of a Poplar114; IX Mars and Venus133; X The Rivals149; XI Benvenuto at Bay162; XII Of the Difficulty which an Honest Man experiences in Procuring his own Committal to Prison 179; XIII In which Jacques Aubry rises to Epic; Proportions201; XIV Of the Difficulty which an Honest; Man experiences in Securing his; Release from Prison211; XV An Honest Theft226; XVI Wherein it is proved that a Grisette's Letter, when it is burned, makes as much Flame and Ashes as a Duchess's 239; XVII Wherein it is proved that True Friendship is capable of carrying Devotion; to the Marrying Point 251; XVIII The Casting 261; XIX Jupiter and Olympus 273; XX A Prudent Marriage 284; XXI« less