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قراءة كتاب The History of Sir Richard Calmady: A Romance
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THE HISTORY
OF
SIR RICHARD CALMADY
A Romance
By
Lucas Malet
NEW YORK
Dodd, Mead & Company
1901
Copyright, 1901
By Dodd, Mead & Company
THE CAXTON PRESS
NEW YORK.
CONTENTS
BOOK I
THE CLOWN
| CHAP. | PAGE | |
| I. | Acquainting the Reader with a Fair Domain and the Maker Thereof | 1 |
| II. | Giving the Very Earliest Information Obtainable of the Hero of this Book | 7 |
| III. | Touching Matters Clerical and Controversial | 19 |
| IV. | Raising Problems which it is the Purpose of this History to Resolve | 25 |
| V. | In which Julius March Beholds the Vision of the New Life | 34 |
| VI. | Accident or Destiny, According to Your Humour | 44 |
| VII. | Mrs. William Ormiston Sacrifices a Wine-glass to Fate | 57 |
| VIII. | Enter a Child of Promise | 69 |
| IX. | In which Katherine Calmady Looks on Her Son | 76 |
| X. | The Birds of the Air Take Their Breakfast | 84 |
BOOK II
THE BREAKING OF DREAMS
| I. | Recording some Aspects of a Small Pilgrim's Progress | 93 |
| II. | In which Our Hero Improves His Acquaintance with Many Things—Himself Included | 104 |
| III. | Concerning that which, Thank God, Happens Almost Every Day | 117 |
| IV. | Which Smells very Vilely of the Stable | 128 |
| V. | In which Dickie is Introduced to a Little Dancer with Blush-roses in Her Hat | 140 |
| VI. | Dealing with a Physician of the Body and a Physician of the Soul | 149 |
| VII. | An Attempt to Make the Best of It | 159 |
| VIII. | Telling, Incidentally, of a Broken-down Postboy and a Country Fair | 169 |
BOOK III
LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCI
| I. | In which Our Hero's World Grows Sensibly Wider | 181 |
| II. | Telling How Dickie's Soul was Somewhat Sick, and How He Met Fair Women on the Confines of a Wood | 186 |
| III. | In which Richard Confirms One Judgment and Reverses Another | 195 |
| IV. | Julius March Bears Testimony | 203 |
| V. | Telling How Queen Mary's Crystal Ball Came to Fall on the Gallery Floor | 215 |
| VI. | In which Dickie Tries to Ride Away from His Own Shadow, with Such Success as Might Have Been Anticipated | 231 |
| VII. |