THE SEA-HAWK

By Rafael Sabatini

CONTENTS

AUTHOR'S NOTE


PART I.   SIR OLIVER TRESSILIAN

CHAPTER I.   THE HUCKSTER

CHAPTER II.   ROSAMUND

CHAPTER III.   THE FORGE

CHAPTER IV.   THE INTERVENER

CHAPTER V.   THE BUCKLER

CHAPTER VI.   JASPER LEIGH

CHAPTER VII.   TREPANNED

CHAPTER VIII.   THE SPANIARD

      

PART II.   SAKR-EL-BAHR

CHAPTER I.   THE CAPTIVE

CHAPTER II.   THE RENEGADE

CHAPTER III.   HOMEWARD BOUND

CHAPTER IV.   THE RAID

CHAPTER V.   THE LION OF THE FAITH

CHAPTER VI.   THE CONVERT

CHAPTER VII.   MARZAK-BEN-ASAD

CHAPTER VIII.   MOTHER AND SON

CHAPTER IX.   COMPETITORS

CHAPTER X.   THE SLAVE-MARKET

CHAPTER XI.   THE TRUTH

CHAPTER XII.   THE SUBTLETY OF FENZILEH

CHAPTER XIII.   IN THE SIGHT OF ALLAH

CHAPTER XIV.   THE SIGN

CHAPTER XV.   THE VOYAGE

CHAPTER XVI.   THE PANNIER

CHAPTER XVII.   THE DUPE

CHAPTER XVIII.   SHEIK MAT

CHAPTER XIX.   THE MUTINEERS

CHAPTER XX.   THE MESSENGER

CHAPTER XXI.   MORITURUS

CHAPTER XXII.   THE SURRENDER

CHAPTER XXIII.      THE HEATHEN CREED

CHAPTER XXIV.   THE JUDGES

CHAPTER XXV.   THE ADVOCATE

CHAPTER XXVI.   THE JUDGMENT

NOTE

Lord Henry Goade, who had, as we shall see, some personal acquaintance with Sir Oliver Tressilian, tells us quite bluntly that he was ill-favoured. But then his lordship is addicted to harsh judgments and his perceptions are not always normal. He says, for instance, of Anne of Cleves, that she was the "ugliest woman that ever I saw." As far as we can glean from his own voluminous writings it would seem to be extremely doubtful whether he ever saw Anne of Cleves at all, and we suspect him here of being no more than a slavish echo of the common voice, which attributed Cromwell's downfall to the ugliness of this bride he procured for his Bluebeard master. To the common voice from the brush of Holbein, which permits us to form our own opinions and shows us a lady who is certainly very far from deserving his lordship's harsh stricture. Similarly, I like to believe that Lord Henry was wrong in his pronouncement upon Sir Oliver, and I am encouraged in this belief by the pen-portrait which he himself appends to it. "He was," he says, "a tall, powerful fellow of a good shape, if we except that his arms were too long and that his feet and hands were of an uncomely bigness.