Rafael Sabatini
The Collected Works of Rafael Sabatini
100+ Novels, Short Stories and Historical Studies
e-artnow, 2020
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Table of Contents
Torquemada and the Spanish Inquisition
The Historical Nights' Entertainment – First Series
The Historical Nights' Entertainment – Second Series
NOVELS
SCARAMOUCHE
Table of Contents
BOOK I
THE ROBE
Chapter 3 The Eloquence of M. De Vilmorin
Chapter 5 The Lord of Gavrillac
CHAPTER 1
THE REPUBLICAN
He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad. And that was all his patrimony. His very paternity was obscure, although the village of Gavrillac had long since dispelled the cloud of mystery that hung about it. Those simple Brittany folk were not so simple as to be deceived by a pretended relationship which did not even possess the virtue of originality. When a nobleman, for no apparent reason, announces himself the godfather of an infant fetched no man knew whence, and thereafter cares for the lad’s rearing and education, the most unsophisticated of country folk perfectly understand the situation. And so the good people of Gavrillac permitted themselves no illusions on the score of the real relationship between Andre–Louis Moreau — as the lad had been named — and Quintin de Kercadiou, Lord of Gavrillac, who dwelt in the big grey house that dominated from its eminence the village clustering below.
Andre–Louis had learnt his letters at the village school, lodged the while with old Rabouillet, the attorney, who in the capacity of fiscal intendant, looked after the affairs