Check to Your King

Contents

• • [covers]
  • Check to Your King
  • Books by Robin Hyde — (Iris Wilkinson)
  • [title page]
  • Introduction p. v
  • Author's Note p. xi
• • Chapter One — Crowns and Thrones—What about Those? p. 1
  • Chapter Two — Document in Exile p. 4
  • Chapter Three — Conversation Piece p. 17
  • Chapter Four — Nobody is Bored in Cambridge p. 23
  • Chapter Five — Ships Putting Forth p. 35
  • Chapter Six — A Crown for Ulysses p. 46
  • Chapter Seven — A Peak in Darien p. 55
  • Chapter Eight — Nukahiva p. 62
  • Chapter Nine — The Sunset Gun p. 68
  • Chapter Ten — Duel with Quill Pens p. 79
  • Chapter Eleven — Contemplation and Loquats p. 87
  • Chapter Twelve — God Omits to Save the King p. 96
  • Chapter Thirteen — Fiat Justitia p. 109
  • Chapter Fourteen — Two and a Half Frenchmen p. 122
  • Chapter Fifteen — There Was a Glory p. 134
  • Chapter Sixteen — The King Goes Back to Nature p. 145
  • Chapter Seventeen — Sister Anne, Sister Anne… p. 157
  • Chapter Eighteen — The Rosy Sofa p. 165
  • Chapter Nineteen — The Smithy in the Woods p. 176
  • Chapter Twenty — The King Declines An Offer p. 183
  • Chapter Twenty-One — Kororareka p. 196
  • Chapter Twenty-Two — Wind of the Sea p. 205
  • Chapter Twenty-Three — Pardonne p. 213
• • Epilogue p. 225
  • Appendix One — The Deed of Purchase p. 226
  • Appendix Two p. 227

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