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                                BERTRAND
                              OF BRITTANY

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                                   BY
                            WARWICK DEEPING
                               AUTHOR OF
                    “A WOMAN’S WAR” “THE SLANDERERS”
                        “BESS OF THE WOODS” ETC.

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                          NEW YORK AND LONDON
                      HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS
                                MCMVIII




                 Copyright, 1908, by HARPER & BROTHERS.
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                         _All rights reserved._
                         Published April, 1908.




                                Contents

            Book I     Youth and the Silver Swan
            Book II    “How a Man May Find His Soul Again”
            Book III   “The Oak of Mivoie”

       Transcriber’s Notes can be found at the end of this eBook.




                                   TO
                             MY DEAR FRIEND
                               JULIA ORD




                          Bertrand of Brittany




                                 BOOK I


                       YOUTH AND THE SILVER SWAN




                                   I

IT had always been said in the Breton lands that Sieur Robert du
Guesclin was a brave man, save in the presence of that noble lady,
Jeanne de Malemains, his wife.

Now Dame Jeanne was a handsome, black-browed woman with a resolute mouth
and a full, white chin. The Norman apple-trees had lost their bloom, so
sang the romancers, when Gleaquim by the sea had stolen her as the
sunlight from Duke Rollo’s lands. The Lady Jeanne had brought no great
dowry to her husband, save only her smooth and confident beauty, and the
perilous blessings of a splendid pride