Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Abbreviations ix
4. Foreword xi
5. Editor’s Preface xiii
6. Editor’s Introduction: The Anatomy of a Novel xix
7. Preface 1
8. Men Of The Old Regime 3
9. The Walls of Quebec 13
10. A Chatelaine of New France 18
11. Confidence 29
12. The Itinerant Notary 40
13. Beaumanoir 54
14. The Intendant Bigot 62
15. Caroline De St Castin 77
16. Pierre Philibert 91
17. Amelie De Repentigny 98
18. The Soldier’s Welcome 105
19. The Castle of St Louis 119
20. The Chiend’or 131
21. The Council of War 143
22. The Charming Josephine 159
23. Angelique Des Meloises 173
24. “Splendide Mendax” 188
25. The Merovingian Princess 205
26. “Put Money in Thy Purse 214
27. Cross Questioning 226
28. Belmont 234
29. “Sic Itur Ad Astra” 247
30. “So Glozed The Tempter” 264
31. “Seals Of Love, But Sealed In Vain” 275
32. “The Hurried Question Of Despair” 284
33. “Betwixt The Last Violet and The Earliest Rose” 294
34. The Canadian Boat Song 306
35. “Cheerful Yesterdays and Confident To-morrows” 323
36. A Day at The Manor House 333
37. “Felices Ter Et Amplius” 349
38. “No Speech of Silk Will Serve Your Turn” 358
39. The Ball at The Intendant’s Palace 374
40. “On with the Dance” 383
41. “Calling a Ravenous Bird from The East” 397
42. La Corriveau 404
43. “Weird Sisters” 422
44. Flaskets of Drugs, Full to their Wicked Lips 436
45. The Broad Black Gateway of a Lie 444
46. Olympic Chariots and Much Learned Dust 459
47. The Coutume De Paris 482
48. A Wild Night Indoors and Out 497
49. Mere Malheur 507
50. “Outvenoms All The Worms Of Nile” 524
51. “Quoth The Raven: ‘Nevermore!’” 532
52. “A Deed Without A Name” 542
53. “Let’S Talk Of Graves And Worms And Epitaphs” 555
54. Silk Gloves Over Bloody Hands 578
55. The Intendant’S Dilemma 605
56. “I Will Feed Fat the Ancient Grudge I Bear Him” 616
57. The Bourgeois Philibert 627
58. A Drawn Game 641
59. “In Gold Clasps Locks in the Golden Story” 650
60. The Market Place On St Martin’S Day 662
61. “Blessed They, Who Die Doing Thy Will!” 675
62. “Evil News Rides Post” 694
63. The Ursulines 706
64. The Lamp Of Repentigny 717
65. “Lovely In Death” 733
66. “The Mills of God Grind Slowly” 743
67. Explanatory Notes 757
68. Description of Manuscript Copy-text 887
69. Bibliographical Description of Published Copy-text 893
70. Published Versions of the Work 901
71. Unrecoverable Manuscript Readings: Readings from Published Copy-text 903
72. Emendations in Copy-texts 919
73. Line-end Hyphenated Compounds in Manuscript Copy-text 941
74. Historical Collation 943
75. Appendix 969