Armorel of Lyonesse. Walter Besant
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Walter Besant
Armorel of Lyonesse
A Romance of To-day
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4064066218751
Table of Contents
PART I CHAPTER I THE CHILD OF SAMSON
CHAPTER II PRESENTED BY THE SEA
CHAPTER III IN THE BAR PARLOUR
CHAPTER V THE ENCHANTED ISLAND
CHAPTER VII A VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY
CHAPTER IX THE LAST DAY BUT ONE
CHAPTER X MR. FLETCHER RETURNS FOR HIS BAG
CHAPTER XIII ARMOREL'S INHERITANCE
CHAPTER III THE CLEVEREST MAN IN LONDON
CHAPTER IV MASTER OF ALL THE ARTS
CHAPTER V ONLY A SIMPLE SERVICE
CHAPTER X THE SECRET OF THE TWO PICTURES
CHAPTER XII TO MAKE THAT PROMISE SURE
CHAPTER XIV AN HONOURABLE PROPOSAL
CHAPTER XV NOT TWO MEN, BUT ONE
CHAPTER XVI THE PLAY AND THE COMEDY
CHAPTER XVII THE NATIONAL GALLERY
CHAPTER XX A RECOVERY AND A FLIGHT
CHAPTER XXII THE END OF WORLDLY TROUBLES
CHAPTER XXIII THE HOUR OF TRIUMPH
CHAPTER XXIV THE CUP AND THE LIP
CHAPTER XXVI NOT THE HEIR, AFTER ALL
CHAPTER XXVII THE DESERT ISLAND
CHAPTER XXIX THE TRESPASS OFFERING
ARMOREL OF LYONESSE
PART I CHAPTER I THE CHILD OF SAMSON
It was the evening of a fine September day. Through the square window, built out so as to form another room almost as large as that which had been thus enlarged, the autumn sun, now fast declining to the west, poured in warm and strong; but not too warm or too strong for the girl on whose head it fell as she sat leaning back in the low chair, her face turned towards the window. The sun of Scilly is never too fierce or too burning in summer, nor in winter does it ever lose its force; in July, when the people of the adjacent islands of Great Britain and Ireland venture not forth into the glare of the sun, here the soft sea mists and the strong sea air temper the heat; and in December the sun still shines with a lingering warmth, as if he loved the place. This girl lived in the sunshine all the year round; rowed in it; lay in it; basked in it bare-headed, summer and winter; in the winter she would sit sheltered from the wind in some warm corner of the rocks; in summer she would lie on the hillside or stand upon the high headlands and the sea-beat crags, while the breezes, which