The Prince and the Page

By Yonge, Charlotte Mary

Book Id: WPLBN0000179153
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Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	The Prince and the Page
Author:	Yonge, Charlotte Mary
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
Collections:	Classic Literature Collection
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Publisher:	World Ebook Library


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Excerpt
PREFACE: In these days of exactness even a child's historical romance must point to what the French term its pieces justficatives. We own that ours do not lie very deep. The picture of Simon de Montfort drawn by his wife's own household books, as quoted by Mrs. Everett Green in her Lives of the Princesses, and that of Edward I. in Carte's History, and more recently in the Greatest of the Plantagenets, furnished the two chief influences of the story. The household accounts show that Earl Simon and Eleanor of England had five sons. Henry fell with his father at Evesham. Simon and Guy deeply injured his cause by their violence, and after holding out Kenilworth against the Prince, retired to the Continent, where they sacrilegiously murdered Henry, son of the King of the Romans—a crime so much abhorred in Italy that Dante represents himself as meeting them in torments in the Inferno, not however before Guy had become the founder of the family of the Counts of Monforte in the Maremma. Richard, the fourth son, appears in the household books as possessing dogs, and having garments bought for him; but his history has not been traced after his mother left England. The youngest son, Amaury, obtained the hereditary French possessions of the family, and continued the line of Montfort as a French subject. Eleanor, the only daughter, called the Demoiselle de Montfort, married, as is well known, the last native prince of Wales, and died after a few years.

Table of Contents
· PREFACE · CHAPTER I—THE STATELY HUNTER · CHAPTER II—THE LADY OF THE FOREST · CHAPTER III—ALTON LODGE · CHAPTER IV—THE TRANSLATION · CHAPTER V—THE OLD KNIGHT OF THE HOSPITAL · CHAPTER VI—THE BEGGAR EARL · CHAPTER VII—AMONG THE RUINS OF CARTHAGE · CHAPTER VIII—RICHARD'S WRAITH · CHAPTER IX—ASH WEDNESDAY · CHAPTER X—THE COMBAT · CHAPTER XI—THE VIEW FROM CARMEL · CHAPTER XII—THE GARDEN OF THE HOSPITAL · CHAPTER XIII—THE BEGGAR AND THE PRINCE · CHAPTER XIV—THE QUEEN OF THE DEW-DROPS · CHAPTER XV—THE BEGGAR'S DOWRY · CHAPTER XVI—THE PAGE'S MEMORY