Chapter IX: Preface: What Is a Golden Deed?

THE STORIES OF ALCESTIS AND ANTIGONE

THE CUP OF WATER

HOW ONE MAN HAS SAVED A HOST

THE PASS OF THERMOPYLAE

THE ROCK OF THE CAPITOL

THE TWO FRIENDS OF SYRACUSE

THE DEVOTION OF THE DECII

REGULUS

THE BRAVE BRETHREN OF JUDAH

THE CHIEF OF THE ARVERNI

WITHSTANDING THE MONARCH IN HIS WRATH

THE LAST FIGHT IN THE COLISEUM

THE SHEPHERD GIRL OF NANTERRE

LEO THE SLAVE

THE BATTLE OF THE BLACKWATER

GUZMAN EL BUENO

FAITHFUL TILL DEATH

WHAT IS BETTER THAN SLAYING A DRAGON

THE KEYS OF CALAIS

THE BATTLE OF SEMPACH

THE CONSTANT PRINCE

THE CARNIVAL OF PERTH

THE CROWN OF ST. STEPHEN

GEORGE THE TRILLER

SIR THOMAS MORE'S DAUGHTER

UNDER IVAN THE TERRIBLE

FORT ST. ELMO

THE VOLUNTARY CONVICT

THE HOUSEWIVES OF LOWENBURG

FATHERS AND SONS

THE SOLDIERS IN THE SNOW

GUNPOWDER PERILS

HEROES OF THE PLAGUE

THE SECOND OF SEPTEMBER

THE VENDEANS

MODERN BROODS OR DEVELOPMENTS UNLOOKED FOR
By Charlotte Mary Yonge
CONTENTS

PAGE

CHAPTER I

TORTOISES AND HARES

1

CHAPTER II

THE GOYLE

16

CHAPTER III

THE FIRST SUNDAY

23

CHAPTER IV

CYCLES

34

CHAPTER V

CLIPSTONE FRIENDS

45

CHAPTER VI

THE FRESCOES OF ST. KENELM’S

57

CHAPTER VII

SISTER AND SISTERS

67

CHAPTER VIII

SNOBBISHNESS

75

CHAPTER IX

GONE OVER TO THE ENEMY

80

CHAPTER X

FLOWN

93

CHAPTER XI

ADRIFT

103

CHAPTER XII

“THE KITTIWAKE”

108

CHAPTER XIII

CHIMERAS DIRE

119

CHAPTER XIV

PAIRING TIME ANTICIPATED

128

CHAPTER XV

BROODS ASTRAY

135

CHAPTER XVI

THE REGIMENT OF WOMEN

146

CHAPTER XVII

FOXGLOVES AND FLIRTATIONS

158

CHAPTER XVIII

PALACES OR CHURCHES

165

CHAPTER XIX

TWO WEDDINGS

179

CHAPTER XX

FLEETING

194

CHAPTER XXI

THE ELECTRICIANS

204

CHAPTER XXII

ANGEL AND BEAR

213

CHAPTER XXIII

WILLOW WIDOWS

224

CHAPTER XXIV

CRUEL LAWYERS

237

CHAPTER XXV

BEAR AS ADVISER

245

CHAPTER XXVI

NEW PATHS

258

CHAPTER XXVII

A SENTENCE

266

CHAPTER XXVIII

SUMMONED

274

CHAPTER XXIX

SAFE

284

CHAPTER XXX

THE MAIDEN ROCKS

293

CHAPTER XXXI

THE WRECK

300

CHAPTER XXXII

ANCHORED

306

CHAPTER XXXIII

FAREWELL

310

CHANTRY HOUSE
By Charlotte M. Yonge
CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

PAGE

A Nursery Prose

1

CHAPTER II.

Schoolroom Days

11

CHAPTER III.

Win and Slow

17

CHAPTER IV.

Ubi Lapsus, Quid Feci

25

CHAPTER V.

A Helping Hand

34

CHAPTER VI.

The Valley of Humiliation

43

CHAPTER VII.

The Inheritance

50

CHAPTER VIII.

The Old House

59

CHAPTER IX.

Rats

67

CHAPTER X.

Our Tuneful Choir

73

CHAPTER XI.

‘They Fordys’

82

CHAPTER XII.

Mrs. Sophia’s Feud

89

CHAPTER XIII.

A Scrape

96

CHAPTER XIV.

The Mullion Chamber

107

CHAPTER XV.

Rational Theories

117

CHAPTER XVI.

Cat Language

126

CHAPTER XVII.

The Siege of Hillside

136