THE HOUSE
_EORUM MEMORIÆ_
_QUI DOMUM ET ÆDIFICA VERUNT
ET SALVAM SERVAVERUNT
SACRUM_
THE HOUSE
By
HENRY BORDEAUX
Author of “The Parting of the Ways,” “The Woollen
Dress,” “The Fear of Living,” “Footprints
Beneath the Snow.”
_Translated by
Louise Seymour Houghton_
Omne regnum divisum contra se desolabitur;
et omnis civitas vel domus divisa contra se
non stabit. --Matt. XII., 25.
NEW YORK
DUFFIELD & COMPANY
1914
Copyright, 1915, by
PLON-NOURRIT & COMPANY
Copyright, 1914, by
DUFFIELD & COMPANY
CONTENTS
BOOK I
I THE KINGDOM 3
II THE DYNASTY 26
III THE ENEMIES 57
IV THE TREATY 74
V THE ABDICATION 94