CONTENTS
CHAPTER I. OF HOW A BOY DRANK TOO MUCH WINE, AND WHAT CAME OF IT
CHAPTER II. THE FRUIT OF INDISCRETION
CHAPTER III. THE FIGHT IN THE HORSE-MARKET
CHAPTER IV. FAIR RESCUERS
CHAPTER V. MAZARIN, THE MATCH-MAKER
CHAPTER VI. OF HOW ANDREA BECAME LOVE-SICK
CHAPTER VII. THE CHÂTEAU DE CANAPLES
CHAPTER VIII. THE FORESHADOW OF DISASTER
CHAPTER IX. OF HOW A WHIP PROVED A BETTER ARGUMENT THAN A TONGUE
CHAPTER X. THE CONSCIENCE OF MALPERTUIS
CHAPTER XI. OF A WOMAN'S OBSTINACY
CHAPTER XII. THE RESCUE
CHAPTER XIII. THE HAND OF YVONNE
CHAPTER XIV. OF WHAT BEFELL AT REAUX.
CHAPTER XV. OF MY RESURRECTION
CHAPTER XVI. THE WAY OF WOMAN
CHAPTER XVII. FATHER AND SON
CHAPTER XVIII. OF HOW I LEFT CANAPLES
CHAPTER XIX. OF MY RETURN TO PARIS
CHAPTER XX. OF HOW THE CHEVALIER DE CANAPLES BECAME A FRONDEUR
CHAPTER XXI. OF THE BARGAIN THAT ST. AUBAN DROVE WITH MY LORD CARDINAL
CHAPTER XXII. OF MY SECOND JOURNEY TO CANAPLES
CHAPTER XXIII. OF HOW ST. AUBAN CAME TO BLOIS
CHAPTER XXIV. OF THE PASSING OF ST. AUBAN
CHAPTER XXV. PLAY-ACTING
CHAPTER XXVI. REPARATION
Andrea de Mancini sprawled, ingloriously drunk, upon the floor. His legs were thrust under the table, and his head rested against the chair from which he had slipped; his long black hair was tossed and dishevelled; his handsome, boyish face flushed and garbed in the vacant expression of idiocy.
“I beg a thousand pardons, M. de Luynes,” quoth he in the thick, monotonous voice of a man whose brain but ill controls his tongue,—“I beg a thousand pardons for the unseemly poverty o