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Nicanor - Teller of Tales : A Story of Roman Britain

Nicanor - Teller of Tales : A Story of Roman Britain

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NICANOR TELLER OF TALES

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"In a physical ecstasy he spoke out that which clamored at his lips." Page 44
"In a physical ecstasy he spoke out that which clamored at his lips." Page 44

NICANOR

TELLER OF TALES

A STORY

OF ROMAN BRITAIN

BY

C. BRYSON TAYLOR

AUTHOR OF

"IN THE DWELLINGS OF THE WILDERNESS"

HAVING PICTURES AND DESIGNS BY

TROY AND MARGARET WEST KINNEY

CHICAGO

A. C. McCLURG & CO.

1906

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Copyright
A. C. McCLURG & CO.
1906
Entered at Stationers' Hall, London, England

All rights reserved

Published April 28, 1906

Typography by The University Press, Cambridge, U.S.A.
Presswork by The Lakeside Press, Chicago, U.S.A.

C. H. B.

To you, whose love did come
And oft did sing to me,
When I was working in the furrows.

CONTENTS


BOOK I
PAGE
THE MANTLE OF MELCHIOR 1
BOOK II
THE GARDEN OF DREAMS 59
BOOK III
PAWNS AND PLAYERS 119
BOOK IV
THE LORD'S DAUGHTER AND THE ONE WHO WENT IN CHAINS 207
BOOK V
THE NIGHT AND THE DAWNING 295

ILLUSTRATIONS


PAGE
"In a Physical Ecstasy He Spoke Out That Which Clamored At His Lips." [Page 44] Frontispiece
"'Were I That Woman, I Should have Wanted to Love Him.'" [Page 85] 72
"'You Sent For Me, Lady Varia?'" [Page 152] 176
"Half a Dozen Young Beauties had Taken Possession—Girls of the Haughtiest Blood in Britain." [Page 254] 254
"The Sight Burst Upon Him in All Its Hideousness,—Where had Been the Stately Mansion of His Lord." [Page 344] 364

CHARACTERS

EUDEMIUS, a Roman lord living in Britain
VARIA, his daughter
LIVINIUS, a Roman citizen, a boyhood friend of Eudemius
MARIUS, his son, of the Roman legions in Gaul

[Guests of Eudemius]
MARCUS SILENUS POMPONIUS, Count of the Saxon Shore
AURELIUS MENOTUS, duumvir of Anderida
FELIX, his son
CAIUS JULIUS VALENS, a Roman citizen

[Roman girls, daughters of the guests of Eudemius]
JULIA
NIGIDIA
PAULA
GRATIA

NERISSA, nurse to Varia
HITO, master of the household of Eudemius
CHLORIS, of all nations, living upon Thorney

[Inmates of her house] SADA, a Saxon EUNICE, a Greek
ELDRIS, a Briton, a convert to Christianity
WARDO, a Saxon, a slave in the house of Eudemius
VALERIUS, a Roman, a soldier of fortune
TOBIAS, a Hebrew, a worker in ivory
RATHUMUS, a British peasant, bound to the soil
SUSANNA, a Hebrew woman, his wife
NICANOR, a story-teller, their son
WULF, the Red, a Saxon free-lance
CEAWLIN, a Saxon chieftain
FATHER AMBROSE, of the Christian church
NICODEMUS, the One-Eyed, a British freedman
MYLEIA, his wife
MARCUS, a slave in the house of Eudemius
BALBUS, a convict
JUNCINA, a fish-wife on Thorney
SOSIA, her daughter

A flower-girl, a Saxon singer, slaves, trades-folk, soldiers of the military police; guards and overseers of the mines, and miners; Roman nobles and patrician women; Saxon men-at-arms, and men of the outland nations

Scene: Britain in the last days of Roman power
Time: between A.D. 410 and 446

LIST OF TOWNS AND RIVERS
WITH THEIR MODERN SITES AND NAMES


Abus Flumen Humber River.
Ad Fines Broughing, Hertfordshire.
Anderida

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