NICANOR TELLER OF TALES
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NICANOR TELLER OF TALES
A Story Of Roman Britain
By C. BRYSON TAYLOR
Author Of "In The Dwellings Of The Wilderness"
Having Pictures and Designs by Troy and Margaret West Kinney
Chicago A. C. Mcclurg & Co. 1906
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Copyright A. C. McCLURG & CO. 1906 Entered at Stationers' Hall, London, England All rights reserved
Published April 28, 1906
Typography by The University Press, Cambridge, U.S.A. Presswork by The Lakeside Press, Chicago, U.S.A.
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C. H. B.
To you, whose love did come And oft did sing to me, When I was working in the furrows.
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CONTENTS
BOOK I PAGE
THE MANTLE OF MELCHIOR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
BOOK II
THE GARDEN OF DREAMS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
BOOK III
PAWNS AND PLAYERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
BOOK IV
THE LORD'S DAUGHTER AND THE ONE WHO WENT IN CHAINS . . . . . . . 207
BOOK V
THE NIGHT AND THE DAWNING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295
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ILLUSTRATIONS Page
"In a physical ecstasy he spoke out that which clamored on his lips" [Page 44] Frontispiece
"'Were I that woman, I should have wanted to love him'" [Page 85] 72
"'You sent for me, Lady Varia?'" [Page 152] 176
"Half a dozen young beauties had taken possession,--girls of the haughtiest blood in Britain" [Page 240] 254
"The sight burst upon him in all its hideousness--where had been the stately mansion of his lord" [Page 344] 364
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CHARACTERS
EUDEMIUS, a Roman lord living in Britain
VARIA, his daughter
LIVINIUS, a Roman citizen, a boyhood friend of Eudemius
MARIUS, his son, of the Roman legions in Gaul
MARCUS SILENUS POMPONIUS, Count of the Saxon Shore } AURELIUS MENOTUS, duumvir of Anderida } Guests of FELIX, his son } Eudemius CAIUS JULIUS VALENS, a Roman citizen }
JULIA } NIGIDIA } Roman girls, daughters of the PAULA } guests of Eudemius GRATIA }
NERISSA, nurse to Varia
HITO, master of the household of Eudemius
CHLORIS, of all nations, living upon Thorney
SADA, a Saxon } inmates of her house EUNICE, a Greek }
ELDRIS, a Briton, a convert to Christianity
WARDO, a Saxon, a slave in the house of Eudemius
VALERIUS, a Roman, a soldier of fortune
TOBIAS, a Hebrew, a worker in ivory
RATHUMUS, a British peasant, bound to the soil
SUSANNA, a Hebrew woman, his wife
NICANOR, a story-teller, their son
WULF, the Red, a Saxon free-lance
CEAWLIN, a Saxon chieftain
FATHER AMBROSE, of the Christian church
NICODEMUS, the One-Eyed, a British freedman
MYLEIA, his wife
MARCUS, a slave in the house of Eudemius
BALBUS, a convict
JUNCINA, a fish-wife on Thorney
SOSIA, her daughter
A flower-girl, a Saxon singer, slaves, trades-folk, soldiers of the military police; guards and overseers of the mines, and miners; Roman nobles and patrician women; Saxon men-at-arms, and men of the outland nations