{"product_id":"2940012978578","title":"THE WHITE COMPANY","description":"CONTENTS.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   I.       How the Black Sheep came forth from the Fold\u003cbr\u003e   II.      How Alleyne Edricson came out into the World\u003cbr\u003e   III.     How Hordle John cozened the Fuller of Lymington\u003cbr\u003e   IV.      How the Bailiff of Southampton Slew the Two Masterless Men\u003cbr\u003e   IV.      How a Strange Company Gathered at the \"Pied Merlin\"\u003cbr\u003e   VI.      How Samkin Aylward Wagered his Feather-bed\u003cbr\u003e   VII.     How the Three Comrades Journeyed through the Woodlands\u003cbr\u003e   VIII.    The Three Friends\u003cbr\u003e   IX.      How Strange Things Befell in Minstead Wood\u003cbr\u003e   X.       How Hordle John Found a Man whom he Might Follow\u003cbr\u003e   XI.      How a Young Shepherd had a Perilous Flock\u003cbr\u003e   XII.     How Alleyne Learned More than he could Teach\u003cbr\u003e   XIII.    How the White Company set forth to the Wars\u003cbr\u003e   XIV.     How Sir Nigel sought for a Wayside Venture\u003cbr\u003e   XV.      How the Yellow Cog sailed forth from Lepe\u003cbr\u003e   XVI.     How the Yellow Cog fought the Two Rover Galleys\u003cbr\u003e   XVII.    How the Yellow Cog crossed the Bar of Gironde\u003cbr\u003e   XVIII.   How Sir Nigel Loring put a Patch upon his Eye\u003cbr\u003e   XIX.     How there was Stir at the Abbey of St. Andrew's\u003cbr\u003e   XX.      How Alleyne Won his Place in an Honorable Guild\u003cbr\u003e   XXI.     How Agostino Pisano Risked his Head\u003cbr\u003e   XXII.    How the Bowmen held Wassail at the \"Rose de Guienne\"\u003cbr\u003e   XXIII.   How England held the Lists at Bordeaux\u003cbr\u003e   XXIV.    How a Champion came forth from the East\u003cbr\u003e   XXV.     How Sir Nigel wrote to Twynham Castle\u003cbr\u003e   XXVI.    How the Three Comrades Gained a Mighty Treasure\u003cbr\u003e   XXVII.   How Roger Club-foot was Passed into Paradise\u003cbr\u003e   XXVIII.  How the Comrades came over the Marches of France\u003cbr\u003e   XXIX.    How the Blessed Hour of Sight Came to the Lady Tiphaine\u003cbr\u003e   XXX.     How the Brushwood Men came to the Chateau of Villefranche\u003cbr\u003e   XXXI.    How Five Men held the Keep of Villefranche\u003cbr\u003e   XXXII.   How the Company took Counsel Round the Fallen Tree\u003cbr\u003e   XXXIII.  How the Army made the Passage of Roncesvalles\u003cbr\u003e   XXXIV.   How the Company Made Sport in the Vale of Pampeluna\u003cbr\u003e   XXXV.    How Sir Nigel Hawked at an Eagle\u003cbr\u003e   XXXVI.   How Sir Nigel Took the Patch from his Eye\u003cbr\u003e   XXXVII.  How the White Company came to be Disbanded\u003cbr\u003e   XXXVIII.  Of the Home-coming to Hampshire\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I. HOW THE BLACK SHEEP CAME FORTH FROM THE FOLD.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe great bell of Beaulieu was ringing. Far away through the forest\u003cbr\u003emight be heard its musical clangor and swell. Peat-cutters on Blackdown\u003cbr\u003eand fishers upon the Exe heard the distant throbbing rising and falling\u003cbr\u003eupon the sultry summer air. It was a common sound in those parts--as\u003cbr\u003ecommon as the chatter of the jays and the booming of the bittern. Yet\u003cbr\u003ethe fishers and the peasants raised their heads and looked questions at\u003cbr\u003eeach other, for the angelus had already gone and vespers was still far\u003cbr\u003eoff. Why should the great bell of Beaulieu toll when the shadows were\u003cbr\u003eneither short nor long?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAll round the Abbey the monks were trooping in. Under the long\u003cbr\u003egreen-paved avenues of gnarled oaks and of lichened beeches the\u003cbr\u003ewhite-robed brothers gathered to the sound. From the vine-yard and\u003cbr\u003ethe vine-press, from the bouvary or ox-farm, from the marl-pits and\u003cbr\u003esalterns, even from the distant iron-works of Sowley and the outlying\u003cbr\u003egrange of St. Leonard's, they had all turned their steps homewards. It\u003cbr\u003ehad been no sudden call. A swift messenger had the night before sped\u003cbr\u003eround to the outlying dependencies of the Abbey, and had left the\u003cbr\u003esummons for every monk to be back in the cloisters by the third hour\u003cbr\u003eafter noontide. So urgent a message had not been issued within the\u003cbr\u003ememory of old lay-brother Athanasius, who had cleaned the Abbey knocker\u003cbr\u003esince the year after the Battle of Bannockburn.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47147441783024,"sku":"2940012978578","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940012978578_p0.jpg?v=1763575284","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940012978578","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}