Count Hannibal

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Count Hannibal (1901)
by Stanley J. Weyman

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Mr, Weyman here returns from his recent incursions into English eighteenth-century life to that of France in earlier days. This semi-historical romance has not always the compact force of Mr, Weyman's earlier French tales, but it certainly does not lack of action, and some of the characters are clearcut—most of all Count Hannibal de Tavannes himself, a nobleman who fights for the king against the Huguenots (the story begins with the St. Bartholomew massacre), and who loves even better than he fights. —From "Books of the Week," Outlook magazine, Dec 1901.

... taken altogether, the book is one of his most successful productions. It must be confessed, however, that it smacks of formula, and scarcely strikes one as having obsessed the author. —From The Literary Digest, January 4 1902

2802769Count Hannibal1901Stanley J. Weyman

COUNT HANNIBAL

[Front matter]

By the Same Author.

THE HOUSE OF THE WOLF.
THE NEW RECTOR.
THE STORY OF FRANCIS CLUDDE.
A GENTLEMAN OF FRANCE.
THE MAN IN BLACK.
UNDER THE RED ROBE.
MY LADY ROTHA.
THE RED COCKADE.
A MINISTER OF FRANCE.
SHREWSBURY.
THE CASTLE INN.
SOPHIA.

COUNT HANNIBAL

A ROMANCE
OF THE COURT OF FRANCE

BY
STANLEY J. WEYMAN

AUTHOR OF
"A GENTLEMAN OF FRANCE," "UNDER THE RED ROBE," "THE CASTLE INN," ETC.

LONDON
SMITH, ELDER & CO., 15, WATERLOO PLACE
1901

PRINTED BY

WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED,

LONDON AND BECCLES.

SORORI

SUÂ CAUSSÂ CARAE

PIO ERGA MATREM AMORE

ETIAM CARIORI

HOC FRATER.

Contents.

chapter page
I. Crimson Favours 1
II. Hannibal de Saulx, Comte de Tavannes 13
III. The House next the Golden Maid 26
IV. The Eve of the Feast 33
V. A Rough Wooing 43
VI. "Who touches Tavannes?" 53
VII. In the Amphitheatre 63
VIII. Two Hens and an Egg 74
IX. Unstable 85
X. Madame St. Lo 92
XI. A Bargain 102
XII. In the Hall of the Louvre 113
XIII. Diplomacy 126
XIV. Too Short a Spoon 139
XV. The Brother of St. Magloire 149
XVI. At Close Quarters 158
XVII. The Duel 164
XVIII. Andromeda, Perseus being absent 177
XIX. In the Orléannais 187
XX. On the Castle Hill 197
XXI. She would, and would not 206
XXII. Playing with Fire 216

XXIII. A Mind, and not a Mind 226
XXIV. At the King's Inn 237
XXV. The Company of the Bleeding Heart 248
XXVI. Temper 256
XXVII. The Black Town 263
XXVIII. In the Little Chapter-house 278
XXIX. The Escape 288
XXX. Sacrilege! 302
XXXI. The Flight from Angers 309
XXXII. The Ordeal by Steel 319
XXXIII. The Ambush 325
XXXIV. "Which will you, Madame?" 338
XXXV. Against the Wall 349
XXXVI. His Kingdom 360

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