The White Company

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1. How a Strange Company Gathered at the “Pied Merlin”
   VI. How Samkin Aylward Wagered his Feather-bed VII. How the Three Comrades Journeyed through the Woodlands VIII. The Three Friends IX. How…
2. How England held the Lists at Bordeaux
   XXIV. How a Champion came forth from the East XXV. How Sir Nigel wrote to Twynham Castle XXVI. How the Three Comrades Gained a Mighty Treas…
3. How the Black Sheep came forth from the Fold
   The great bell of Beaulieu was ringing. Far away through the forest might be heard its musical clangor and swell. Peat-cutters on Blackdown…
4. How Alleyne Edricson came out into the World
   Never had the peaceful atmosphere of the old Cistercian house been so rudely ruffled. Never had there been insurrection so sudden, so short…
5. How Hordle John cozened the Fuller of Lymington
   It is not, however, in the nature of things that a lad of twenty, with young life glowing in his veins and all the wide world before him, s…
6. The White Company - How the Bailiff of Southampton Slew the Two Masterless Men - (1)
   The road along which he travelled was scarce as populous as most other roads in the kingdom, and far less so than those which lie between t…
7. The White Company - How the Bailiff of Southampton Slew the Two Masterless Men - (2)
   Down the slanting road there was riding a big, burly man, clad in a tunic of purple velvet and driving a great black horse as hard as it co…
8. The White Company - How the Bailiff of Southampton Slew the Two Masterless Men - (3)
   “That is Wat the limner,” quoth the landlady, sitting down beside Alleyne, and pointing with the ladle to the sleeping man. “That is he who…
9. How Samkin Aylward Wagered his Feather-bed
   He was a middle-sized man, of most massive and robust build, with an arching chest and extraordinary breadth of shoulder. His shaven face w…
10. How the Three Comrades Journeyed through the Woodlands
    At early dawn the country inn was all alive, for it was rare indeed that an hour of daylight would be wasted at a time when lighting was so…
11. The Three Friends
    His companions had passed on whilst he was at his orisons; but his young blood and the fresh morning air both invited him to a scamper. His…
12. The White Company - How Strange Things Befell in Minstead Wood - (1)
    The path which the young clerk had now to follow lay through a magnificent forest of the very heaviest timber, where the giant bowls of oak…
13. The White Company - How Strange Things Befell in Minstead Wood - (2)
    “Is this your land, then?” gasped Alleyne. “Would you dispute it, dog? Would you wish by trick or quibble to juggle me out of these last ac…
14. The White Company - How Hordle John Found a Man whom he Might Follow - (1)
    If he might not return to Beaulieu within the year, and if his brother's dogs were to be set upon him if he showed face upon Minstead land,…
15. The White Company - How Hordle John Found a Man whom he Might Follow - (2)
    Sir Nigel was a slight man of poor stature, with soft lisping voice and gentle ways. So short was he that his wife, who was no very tall wo…
16. The White Company - How a Young Shepherd had a Perilous Flock - (1)
    Black was the mouth of Twynham Castle, though a pair of torches burning at the further end of the gateway cast a red glare over the outer b…
17. The White Company - How a Young Shepherd had a Perilous Flock - (2)
    He was brought back to himself, however, by a sudden little ripple of quick feminine laughter. Aghast, he dropped the manuscript among the…
18. How Alleyne Learned More than he could Teach
    And now there came a time of stir and bustle, of furbishing of arms and clang of hammer from all the southland counties. Fast spread the ti…
19. How the White Company set forth to the Wars
    St. Luke's day had come and had gone, and it was in the season of Martinmas, when the oxen are driven in to the slaughter, that the White C…
20. How Sir Nigel sought for a Wayside Venture
    For a time Sir Nigel was very moody and downcast, with bent brows and eyes upon the pommel of his saddle. Edricson and Terlake rode behind…
21. The White Company - How the Yellow Cog sailed forth from Lepe - (1)
    That night the Company slept at St. Leonard's, in the great monastic barns and spicarium ground well known both to Alleyne and to John, for…
22. The White Company - How the Yellow Cog sailed forth from Lepe - (2)
    “By St. Paul!” said Sir Nigel gayly, as he stood upon the poop and looked on either side of him, “it is a land which is very well worth fig…
23. How the Yellow Cog fought the Two Rover Galleys
    The three vessels had been sweeping swiftly westwards, the cog still well to the front, although the galleys were slowly drawing in upon ei…
24. How the Yellow Cog crossed the Bar of Gironde
    For two days the yellow cog ran swiftly before a northeasterly wind, and on the dawn of the third the high land of Ushant lay like a mist u…
25. How Sir Nigel Loring put a Patch upon his Eye
    It was on the morning of Friday, the eight-and-twentieth day of November, two days before the feast of St. Andrew, that the cog and her two…
26. How there was Stir at the Abbey of St. Andrew's
    The prince's reception-room, although of no great size, was fitted up with all the state and luxury which the fame and power of its owner d…
27. How Alleyne Won his Place in an Honorable Guild
    Whilst the prince's council was sitting, Alleyne and Ford had remained in the outer hall, where they were soon surrounded by a noisy group…
28. The White Company - How Agostino Pisano Risked his Head - (1)
    Even the squires' table at the Abbey of St. Andrew's at Bordeaux was on a very sumptuous scale while the prince held his court there. Here…
29. The White Company - How Agostino Pisano Risked his Head - (2)
    “And all these!” said Alleyne. “Have you indeed done them all? and where are they to go?” “Yes, signor, they are all from my hand. Some are…
30. The White Company - How Agostino Pisano Risked his Head - (3)
    Sir Hugh Calverley and Sir Robert Knolles had not yet returned from their raid into the marches of the Navarre, so that the English party w…
31. How a Champion came forth from the East
    The Bordeaux lists were, as has already been explained, situated upon the plain near the river upon those great occasions when the tilting-…
32. How Sir Nigel wrote to Twynham Castle
    On the morning after the jousting, when Alleyne Edricson went, as was his custom, into his master's chamber to wait upon him in his dressin…
33. The White Company - How the Three Comrades Gained a Mighty Treasure - (1)
    It was a bright, crisp winter's day when the little party set off from Bordeaux on their journey to Montaubon, where the missing half of th…
34. The White Company - How the Three Comrades Gained a Mighty Treasure - (2)
    “There is the smoke from Bazas, on the further side of Garonne,” quoth he. “There were three sisters yonder, the daughters of a farrier, an…
35. How Roger Club-foot was Passed into Paradise
    It was evening before the three comrades came into Aiguillon. There they found Sir Nigel Loring and Ford safely lodged at the sign of the “…
36. The White Company - How the Comrades came over the Marches of France - (1)
    After passing Cahors, the party branched away from the main road, and leaving the river to the north of them, followed a smaller track whic…
37. The White Company - How the Comrades came over the Marches of France - (2)
    “And perhaps, most honored sir, it would please you to continue the debate. Perhaps you would condescend to go farther into the matter. God…
38. How the Blessed Hour of Sight Came to the Lady Tiphaine
    Sir Tristram de Rochefort, Seneschal of Auvergne and Lord of Villefranche, was a fierce and renowned soldier who had grown gray in the Engl…
39. How the Brushwood Men came to the Chateau of Villefranche
    It was late ere Alleyne Edricson, having carried Sir Nigel the goblet of spiced wine which it was his custom to drink after the curling of…
40. How Five Men held the Keep of Villefranche
    Under the guidance of the French squire the party passed down two narrow corridors. The first was empty, but at the head of the second stoo…
41. How the Company took Counsel Round the Fallen Tree
    “Where is Sir Claude Latour?” asked Sir Nigel, as his feet touched ground. “He is in camp, near Montpezat, two hours' march from here, my f…
42. How the Army made the Passage of Roncesvalles
    The whole vast plain of Gascony and of Languedoc is an arid and profitless expanse in winter save where the swift-flowing Adour and her sno…
43. How the Company Made Sport in the Vale of Pampeluna
    Whilst the council was sitting in Pampeluna the White Company, having encamped in a neighboring valley, close to the companies of La Nuit a…
44. The White Company - How Sir Nigel Hawked at an Eagle - (1)
    To the south of Pampeluna in the kingdom of Navarre there stretched a high table-land, rising into bare, sterile hills, brown or gray in co…
45. The White Company - How Sir Nigel Hawked at an Eagle - (2)
    “We shall lie here all day; for amid this brushwood it is ill for them to see us. Then when evening comes we shall sally out upon them and…
46. The White Company - How Sir Nigel Took the Patch from his Eye - (1)
    It was a cold, bleak morning in the beginning of March, and the mist was drifting in dense rolling clouds through the passes of the Cantabr…
47. The White Company - How Sir Nigel Took the Patch from his Eye - (2)
    “Unloose the horses!” said Sir Nigel. “We have no space for them, and if we hold our own we shall have horses and to spare when this day's…
48. How the White Company came to be Disbanded
    Then up rose from the hill in the rugged Cantabrian valley a sound such as had not been heard in those parts before, nor was again, until t…
49. Of the Home-coming to Hampshire
    It was a bright July morning four months after that fatal fight in the Spanish barranca. A blue heaven stretched above, a green rolling pla…