Sir Nigel

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The House Of Loring
In the month of July of the year 1348, between the feasts of St. Benedict and of St. Swithin, a strange thing came upon England, for out of…
How The Devil Came To Waverley
The day was the first of May, which was the Festival of the Blessed Apostles Philip and James. The year was the 1,349th from man’s salvatio…
Sir Nigel - The Yellow Horse Of Crooksbury - (1)
In those simple times there was a great wonder and mystery in life. Man walked in fear and solemnity, with Heaven very close above his head…
Sir Nigel - The Yellow Horse Of Crooksbury - (2)
A hard brown old woodman who had been shooting vermin in the Abbey groves stepped forward with a grin of pleasure. After a lifetime of stoa…
Sir Nigel - How The Summoner Came To The Manor House Of Tilford - (1)
By the date of this chronicle the ascetic sternness of the old Norman castles had been humanized and refined so that the new dwellings of t…
Sir Nigel - How The Summoner Came To The Manor House Of Tilford - (2)
“Nay! you were mad to do that, Nigel. And the man, where is he?” “Red Swire and old George the archer threw him into the Thursley bog.” “Al…
Sir Nigel - How Nigel Was Tried By The Abbot Of Waverley - (1)
The law of the Middle Ages, shrouded as it was in old Norman-French dialect, and abounding in uncouth and incomprehensible terms, in deodan…
Sir Nigel - How Nigel Was Tried By The Abbot Of Waverley - (2)
“By Saint Paul!” said he, “I never thought to find honorable advancement under the roof of an abbey, but perchance there may, be some room…
In Which Lady Ermyntrude Opens The Iron Coffer
AS in a dream Nigel heard these stupendous and incredible words. As in a dream also he had a vision of a smiling and conciliatory Abbot, of…
Sir Nigel - How Nigel Went Marketing To Guildford - (1)
It was on a bright June morning that young Nigel, with youth and springtime to make his heart light, rode upon his errand from Tilford to G…
Sir Nigel - How Nigel Went Marketing To Guildford - (2)
The honest archer had pushed back his steel cap and was scratching his tangled head. “Nay, I know nothing of it. You never said that there…
How The King Hawked On Crooksbury Heath
The King and his attendants had shaken off the crowd who had followed them from Guildford along the Pilgrims’ Way and now, the mounted arch…
How Nigel Held The Bridge At Tilford
The King looked at the motionless figure, at the little crowd of hushed expectant rustics beyond the bridge, and finally at the face of Cha…
How The King Greeted His Seneschal Of Calais
It would have fared ill with the good name of Tilford Manor house and with the housekeeping of the aged Dame Ermyntrude had the King’s whol…
In The Hall Of The Knight Of Duplin
The King had come and had gone. Tilford Manor house stood once more dark and silent, but joy and contentment reigned within its walls. In o…
Sir Nigel - How Nigel Fought The Twisted Man Of Shalford - (1)
In the days of which you read all classes, save perhaps the very poor, fared better in meat and in drink than they have ever done since. Th…
Sir Nigel - How Nigel Fought The Twisted Man Of Shalford - (2)
Nigel stopped midway between the door and the table. His eyes and those of Paul de la Fosse were riveted upon each other. But Mary, with he…
Sir Nigel - How The Comrades Journeyed Down The Old, Old Road - (1)
And now the season of the moonless nights was drawing nigh and the King’s design was ripe. Very secretly his preparations were made. Alread…
Sir Nigel - How The Comrades Journeyed Down The Old, Old Road - (2)
Aylward, having unstrung his bow, had remounted his horse during this conversation, and the two rode swiftly past the little squat Chapel o…
Sir Nigel - How Nigel Chased The Red Ferret - (1)
They passed a ferry, wound upward by a curving path, and then, having satisfied a guard of men-at-arms, were admitted through the frowning…
Sir Nigel - How Nigel Chased The Red Ferret - (2)
He had a crew of seven rough, hardy mariners, who had been at his back in many a skirmish. They were armed with short swords, but Cock Badd…
How The Red Ferret Came To Cosford
The old chronicler in his “Gestes du Sieur Nigel” has bewailed his broken narrative, which rose from the fact that out of thirty-one years…
How The King’s Court Feasted In Calais Castle
It was a bright sunshiny morning when Nigel found himself at last able to leave his turret chamber and to walk upon the rampart of the cast…
Sir Nigel - The Spaniards On The Sea - (1)
Day had not yet dawned when Nigel was in the chamber of Chandos preparing him for his departure and listening to the last cheery words of a…
Sir Nigel - The Spaniards On The Sea - (2)
But fair as was the view of their lost friends, and wondrous the appearance of the Spanish ships, it was not on those that the eyes of the…
How Black Simon Claimed Forfeit From The King Of Sark
For a day and a half the small fleet made good progress, but on the second morning, after sighting Cape de la Hague, there came a brisk lan…
Sir Nigel - How A Squire Of England Met A Squire Of France - (1)
Sir Robert Knolles with his little fleet had sighted the Breton coast near Cancale; they had rounded the Point du Grouin, and finally had s…
Sir Nigel - How A Squire Of England Met A Squire Of France - (2)
Once at St. Meen they passed a great nunnery, girt with a high gray lichened wall, an oasis of peace in this desert of war, the black-robed…
Sir Nigel - How The English Attempted The Castle Of La Brohinière - (1)
For some minutes Nigel remained motionless upon the crest of the hill, his heart, like lead within him, and his eyes fixed upon the huge gr…
Sir Nigel - How The English Attempted The Castle Of La Brohinière - (2)
There only remained the young lad, Johnny Alspaye, who stood shaking with fear, an abyss below him, and the voices of those who would hurl…
Sir Nigel - How The Second Messenger Went To Cosford - (1)
Under cover of night the wounded men were lifted from the ditch and carried back, whilst pickets of archers were advanced to the very gate…
Sir Nigel - How The Second Messenger Went To Cosford - (2)
“Surely some one else came after us,” said he. They listened, but no whisper or rustle came from behind them. For a minute they paused and…
How Robert Of Beaumanoir Came To Ploermel
Sir Robert Knolles and his men passed onward that day, looking back many a time to see the two dark columns of smoke, one thicker and one m…
Sir Nigel - How Thirty Of Josselin Encountered Thirty Of Ploermel - (1)
All night the Castle of Ploermel rang with warlike preparations, for the smiths were hammering and filing and riveting, preparing the armor…
Sir Nigel - How Thirty Of Josselin Encountered Thirty Of Ploermel - (2)
But Nigel was not long unavenged. The huge iron club of Belford struck the dwarf Raguenel to the ground, while Belford in turn was felled b…
Sir Nigel - How Nigel Was Called To His Master - (1)
“My sweet ladye,” wrote Nigel in a script which it would take the eyes of love to read, “there hath been a most noble meeting in the fourth…
Sir Nigel - How Nigel Was Called To His Master - (2)
“It was an ill day when the King’s service called you from my side,” said he, “and by Saint Paul! I am right glad to set eyes upon you once…
How The King Of France Held Counsel At Maupertuis
The morning of Sunday, the nineteenth of September, in the year of our Lord 1356, was cold and fine. A haze which rose from the marshy vall…
Sir Nigel - How Nigel Found His Third Deed - (1)
Four archers lay behind a clump of bushes ten yards in front of the thick hedge which shielded their companions. Amid the long line of bowm…
Sir Nigel - How Nigel Found His Third Deed - (2)
But the Prince’s courage flamed the higher as the shadow fell, while his dark eyes gleamed with a soldier’s pride as he glanced round him a…
How The Third Messenger Came To Cosford
Two months have passed, and the long slopes of Hindhead are russet with the faded ferns—the fuzzy brown pelt which wraps the chilling earth…