Chapter I: Front Matter

The House of Egremont

The
House of Egremont

_A Novel_

By
Molly Elliot Seawell

ILLUSTRATED BY C. M. RELYEA

New York
Charles Scribner’s Sons
1900

_Copyright, 1900_

BY CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS

_Dramatic and all other rights
reserved_

UNIVERSITY PRESS · JOHN WILSON
AND SON · CAMBRIDGE, U. S. A.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. IN WHICH ROGER EGREMONT MAKES HIS BOW TO THE WORLD 1

II. ROGER EGREMONT MAKES INTIMATE ACQUAINTANCE WITH TWO
PERSONS, WHO EXERCISE GREAT BUT WIDELY DIFFERING
INFLUENCES UPON HIS LIFE,--TO WIT, THE DEVIL AND
MISS BESS LUKENS 25

III. ONCE MORE AT EGREMONT 49

IV. SHOWING HOW ROGER EGREMONT FALLS INTO GOOD COMPANY 62

V. THE EASTER TUESDAY MASQUERADE ON THE TERRACE, AND
WHAT CAME OF IT 87

VI. “YOUR LOVER IS EVER IN A BAD WAY WHEN THE OTHER
WOMAN APPEARS” 121

VII. IN WHICH ROGER EGREMONT MEETS WITH BOTH GOOD AND
ILL FORTUNE 148

VIII. WHEREIN THE PRINCESS MICHELLE IS PUT IN THE WAY OF
SECURING THE DESTINY OF WHICH SHE HAS LONG DREAMED 172

IX. “I WISH YOU TO COME WITH ME” 193

X. HO! FOR ORLAMUNDE 217

XI. THE JOURNEY, AND SOME CONFIDENCES MADE BY ROGER
EGREMONT TO THE PRINCESS MICHELLE 235

XII. “YOU HAVE BROUGHT ME TO THE GATE OF PARADISE, AND
HAVE SHOWN ME THE GLORY OF THE BEAUTY WITHIN--AND
THEN HAVE THRUST ME AWAY!” 256

XIII. THE PALACE OF MONPLAISIR--THE ABODE OF THE MOST
HIGH, MOST MIGHTY, AND MOST PUISSANT PRINCE OF
ORLAMUNDE 280

XIV. ROGER EGREMONT HAS A LITTLE ADVENTURE IN A GARDEN
AT NEERWINDEN AND BECOMES A MAJOR IN THE FINEST
BRIGADE IN THE WORLD 301

XV. IN WHICH AN EGREMONT HAS THE HAPPINESS OF RETURNING
TO HIS NATIVE LAND--AND WHAT BEFELL HIM THERE 328

XVI. ONCE MORE IN THE SALOON OF THE SWANS 352

XVII. IN WHICH CAPTAIN ROGER EGREMONT ACTS AS COACHMAN,
AND LIEUTENANT-GENERAL THE DUKE OF BERWICK AS
FOOTMAN 375

XVIII. ROGER EGREMONT HAS HIS LAST FIGHT WITH THE DEVIL 401

XIX. IF A MAN GIVETH HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS, HE CAN
DO NO MORE 424

XX. “HUGO STEIN IS MY ENEMY, AND I AM HIS, AS LONG AS
WE BOTH SHALL LIVE” 452

XXI. WHEREIN IS SET FORTH THE CONCLUSION OF A MAN WHO
ALWAYS FEARED GOD, AND ALWAYS TOOK HIS OWN PART 479

ILLUSTRATIONS

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ROGER WALKED AROUND THE OTHER SIDE OF THE BUSH
... HAT IN HAND _Frontispiece_

“HERE ARE PENS, INK, AND PAPER” 40

THEN, WALKING DOWN THE STAIRWAY, CAME THE POOR KING 218

THEY WAIT TO BID THE PRINCESS GOOD-NIGHT 296

DICKY WHISTLED TO BOLD, WHO CAME AND LICKED HIS HAND 334

ROGER RAISED THE PISTOL AND FIRED 400

THE

HOUSE OF EGREMONT