The Chaplet of Pearls

The Chaplet of Pearls, by
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THE CHAPLET OF PEARLS
BY
CHARLOTTE M.YONGE

CONTENTS
CHAPTER I.
THE BRIDAL OF THE WHITE AND BLACK
CHAPTER II.
THE SEPARATION
CHAPTER III.
THE FAMILY COUNCIL

CHAPTER IV.
TITHONUS
CHAPTER V.
THE CONVENT BIRD
CHAPTER VI.
FOULLY COZENED
CHAPTER VII.
THE QUEEN'S PASTORAL
CHAPTER VIII.
'LE BROUILLON'
CHAPTER IX.
THE WEDDING WITH CRIMSON FAVOURS
CHAPTER X.
MONSIEUR'S BALLET
CHAPTER XI.
THE KING'S TRAGEDY
CHAPTER XII.
THE PALACE OF SLAUGHTER
CHAPTER XIII.

THE BRIDEGROOM'S ARRIVAL
CHAPTER XIV.
SWEET HEART
CHAPTER XV.
NOTRE-DAME DE BELLAISE
CHAPTER XVI.
THE HEARTHS AND THICKETS OF THE BOCAGE
CHAPTER XVII.
THE GHOSTS OF THE TEMPLARS
CHAPTER XVIII.
THE MOONBEAM
CHAPTER XIX.
LA RUE DES TROIS FEES
CHAPTER XX.
THE ABBE
CHAPTER XXI.
UNDER THE WALNUT-TREE
CHAPTER XXII.
DEPARTURE

CHAPTER XXIII.
THE EMPTY CRADLE
CHAPTER XXIV.
THE GOOD PRIEST OF NISSARD
CHAPTER XXV.
THE VELVET COACH
CHAPTER XXVI.
THE CHEVALIER'S EXPIATION
CHAPTER XXVII.
THE DYING KING
CHAPTER XXVIII.
THE ORPHANS OF LA SABLERIE
CHAPTER XXIX.
IN THE KING'S NAME
CHAPTER XXX.
CAGED IN THE BLACKBIRD'S NEST
CHAPTER XXXI.
THE DARK POOL OF THE FUTURE
CHAPTER XXXII.

'JAM SATIS'
CHAPTER XXXIII.
THE SCANDAL OF THE SYNOD OF MONTAUBAN
CHAPTER XXXIV.
MADAME LA DUCHESSE
CHAPTER XXXV.
THE ITALIAN PEDLAR
CHAPTER XXXVI.
SPELL AND POTION
CHAPTER XXXVII.
BEATING AGAINST THE BARS
CHAPTER XXXVIII.
THE ENEMY IN PRESENCE
CHAPTER XXXIX.
THE PEDLAR'S PREDICTION
CHAPTER XL.
THE SANDS OF OLONNE
CHAPTER XLI.
OUR LADY OF HOPE

CHAPTER XLII.
THE SILVER BULLET
CHAPTER XLIII.
LA BAISER D'EUSTACIE
CHAPTER XLIV.
THE GALIMAFRE

PREFACE

It is the fashion to call every story controversial that deals with times
when controversy or a war of religion was raging; but it should be
remembered that there are some which only attempt to portray human
feelings as affected by the events that such warfare occasioned. 'Old
Mortality' and 'Woodstock' are not controversial tales, and the 'Chaplet
of Pearls' is so quite as little. It only aims at drawing certain scenes and
certain characters as the convulsions of the sixteenth century may have
affected them, and is, in fact, like all historical romance, the shaping of
the conceptions that the imagination must necessarily form when
dwelling upon the records of history. That faculty which might be
called the passive fancy, and might almost be described in Portia's song,
--
'It is engendered in the eyes, By READING fed - and there it dies,'--
that faculty, I say, has learnt to feed upon character and incident, and to
require that the latter should be effective and exciting. Is it not
reasonable to seek for this in the days when such things were not
infrequent, and did not imply exceptional wickedness or misfortune in
those engaged in them? This seems to me one plea for historical novel,
to which I would add the opportunity that it gives for study of the times

and delineation of characters. Shakespeare's Henry IV. and Henry V.,
Scott's Louis XI., Manzoni's Federigo Borromeo, Bulwer's Harold,
James's Philip Augustus, are all real contributions to our
comprehension of the men themselves, by calling the chronicles and
memoirs into action. True, the picture cannot be exact, and is
sometimes distorted--nay, sometimes praiseworthy efforts at
correctness in the detail take away whatever might have been lifelike in
the outline. Yet, acknowledging all this, I must still plead for the tales
that presumptuously deal with days gone by, as enabling