CHAPTER I THE URSULINE LOSES A PUPIL

Chapter II
the lord of Crandlemar

Chapter III
the ball

Chapter IV
his lordship’s proposal

Chapter V
Bacchus and bacchantes

Chapter VI
Janet’s philosophy

Chapter VII
the brantle

Chapter VIII
the ancient monastery

Chapter IX
sir Julian Pomphrey

Chapter X
what happened in the butlery

Chapter XI
Jacques Dempsy

Chapter XII
castle and monastery

Chapter XIII
as nine tolled from the chapel belfry

Chapter XIV
sermons new and old

Chapter XV
the edict of Buckingham

Chapter XVI
Buckingham’s adventure

Chapter XVII
tells of the doings of all concerned

Chapter XVIII
at Monmouth’s villa

Chapter XIX
what happened in the coach

Chapter XX
UNPROCLAIMED banns

Chapter XXI
the espousal

Chapter XXII
Cedric in the toils

Chapter XXIII
the cocoanuts of the king’s cellar

Chapter XXIV
what happened in the tower

Chapter XXV
the garden of youth

CHAPTER I

THE URSULINE LOSES A PUPIL

“If the ship sails at dawn, then I must hasten to tell my mistress of the departure, and—­of her father’s letter.”

“I am loath to let yonder tide take her away so soon, Janet.”

“But my master’s words are a positive command to leave Quebec at once,” and Janet’s eyes fell to the imperative line at the close of her letter which read:  “In God’s name, good nurse, take my baby to England in all haste.”

“Aye, our noble patron’s desire must be carried out!” and the Mother Superior without further lament went from the small cell.

When the last echo of her footsteps had died away, Janet Wadham cautiously opened the inner door and passed to the cell adjoining, and to the low couch upon which lay her mistress in sound slumber.

Fondly she noted the beauty of her charge; the heavy waving hair gleaming in the fading light a bronze-like amber, the white forehead, the arched brow, the glow of health upon lip and cheek, the slender neck, the slope of shoulders, and the outline of a perfect form.