COUNT ROBERT OF PARIS
SIR WALTER SCOTT COUNT ROBERT OF PARIS Table of Contents
COUNT ROBERT OF PARIS...... 1 SIR WALTER SCOTT...... 1 ADVERTISEMENT. (1833.) ...... 2 INTRODUCTORY ADDRESS...... 5 COUNT ROBERT OF PARIS...... 12 CHAPTER THE FIRST...... 12 CHAPTER THE SECOND...... 16 CHAPTER THE THIRD...... 31 CHAPTER THE FOURTH...... 41 CHAPTER THE FIFTH...... 51 CHAPTER THE SIXTH...... 59 CHAPTER THE SEVENTH...... 62 CHAPTER THE EIGHTH...... 70 CHAPTER THE NINTH...... 76 CHAPTER THE TENTH...... 84 CHAPTER THE ELEVENTH...... 92 CHAPTER THE TWELFTH...... 94 CHAPTER THE THIRTEENTH...... 97 CHAPTER THE FOURTEENTH...... 109 CHAPTER THE FIFTEENTH...... 115 CHAPTER THE SIXTEENTH...... 121 CHAPTER THE SEVENTEENTH...... 127 CHAPTER THE EIGHTEENTH...... 131 CHAPTER THE NINETEENTH...... 140 CHAPTER THE TWENTIETH...... 146 CHAPTER THE TWENTY−FIRST...... 155 CHAPTER THE TWENTY−SECOND...... 160 CHAPTER THE TWENTY−THIRD...... 163 CHAPTER THE TWENTH−FOURTH...... 171 CHAPTER THE TWENTY−FIFTH...... 176 CHAPTER THE TWENTY−SIXTH...... 179 CHAPTER THE TWENTY−SEVENTH...... 188 CHAPTER THE TWENTY−EIGHTH...... 193 CHAPTER THE TWENTY−NINTH...... 198 CHAPTER THE THIRTIETH...... 203 CHAPTER THE THIRTY−FIRST...... 207 CHAPTER THE THIRTY−SECOND...... 212 CHAPTER THE THIRTY−THIRD...... 214 CHAPTER THE THIRTY−FOURTH...... 222
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• ADVERTISEMENT. (1833.) • INTRODUCTORY ADDRESS. • COUNT ROBERT OF PARIS.
• CHAPTER THE FIRST. • CHAPTER THE SECOND. • CHAPTER THE THIRD. • CHAPTER THE FOURTH. • CHAPTER THE FIFTH. • CHAPTER THE SIXTH. • CHAPTER THE SEVENTH. • CHAPTER THE EIGHTH. • CHAPTER THE NINTH. • CHAPTER THE TENTH. • CHAPTER THE ELEVENTH. • CHAPTER THE TWELFTH. • CHAPTER THE THIRTEENTH. • CHAPTER THE FOURTEENTH. • CHAPTER THE FIFTEENTH. • CHAPTER THE SIXTEENTH. • CHAPTER THE SEVENTEENTH. • CHAPTER THE EIGHTEENTH. • CHAPTER THE NINETEENTH. • CHAPTER THE TWENTIETH. • CHAPTER THE TWENTY−FIRST. • CHAPTER THE TWENTY−SECOND. • CHAPTER THE TWENTY−THIRD. • CHAPTER THE TWENTH−FOURTH. • CHAPTER THE TWENTY−FIFTH. • CHAPTER THE TWENTY−SIXTH. • CHAPTER THE TWENTY−SEVENTH. • CHAPTER THE TWENTY−EIGHTH. • CHAPTER THE TWENTY−NINTH. • CHAPTER THE THIRTIETH. • CHAPTER THE THIRTY−FIRST. • CHAPTER THE THIRTY−SECOND. • CHAPTER THE THIRTY−THIRD. • CHAPTER THE THIRTY−FOURTH.
SIR WALTER SCOTT.
COUNT ROBERT OF PARIS 1 COUNT ROBERT OF PARIS
COUNT ROBERT OF PARIS CASTLE DANGEROUS MY AUNT MARGARET'S MIRROR, &c. &c.
Tales of my Landlord.
COUNT ROBERT OF PARIS.
The European with the Asian shore Sophia's cupola with golden gleam The cypress groves Olympus high and hoar The twelve isles, and the more than I could dream, Far less describe, present the very view That charm'd the charming Mary Montagu. DON JUAN.
ADVERTISEMENT. (1833.)
Sir Walter Scott transmitted from Naples, in February, 1832, an Introduction for CASTLE DANGEROUS; but if he ever wrote one for a second Edition of ROBERT OF PARIS, it has not been discovered among his papers. Some notes, chiefly extracts from the books which he had been observed to consult while dictating this novel, are now appended to its pages; and in addition to what the author had given in the shape of historical information respecting the principal real persons introduced, the reader is here presented with what may probably amuse him, the passage of the Alexiad, in which Anna Comnena describes the incident which originally, no doubt, determined Sir Walter's choice of a hero.
May, A.D. 1097. As for the multitude of those who advanced towards THE GREAT CITY, let it be enough to say that they were as the stars in the heaven, or as the sand upon the sea−shore. They were, in the words of Homer, as many as the leaves and flowers of spring. But for the names of the leaders, though they are present in my memory, I will not relate them. The numbers of these would alone deter me, even if my language furnished the means of expressing their barbarous sounds; and for what purpose should I afflict my readers with a long enumeration of the names of those, whose visible presence gave so much horror to all that beheld them?