The Laughing Cavalier. Baroness Orczy

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       Baroness Orczy

      The Laughing Cavalier

      Published by Good Press, 2020

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      EAN 4064066422943

Table of Contents

       An apology

       Prologue

       I. New Year's Eve

       II. The Fracas by the Postern Gate

       III. An Interlude

       IV. Watch-night

       V. Brother and Sister

       VI. The Counsels of Prudence

       VII. Three Philosophers and their Friends

       VIII. The Lodgings which were Paid for

       IX. The Painter of Pictures

       X. The Laughing Cavalier

       XI. The Bargain

       XII. The Portrait

       XIII. The Spanish Wench

       XIV. After Evensong

       XV. The Halt at Bennebrock

       XVI. Leyden

       XVII. An Understanding

       XVIII. The Start

       XIX. In the Kingdom of the Night

       XX. Back Again in Haarlem

       XXI. A Grief-stricken Father

       XXII. A Double Pledge

       XXIII. A Spy from the Camp

       XXIV. The Birth of Hate

       XXV. An Arrant Knave

       XXVI. Back to Houdekerk

       XXVII. Thence to Rotterdam

       XXVIII. Check

       XXIX. Check Again

       XXX. A Nocturne

       XXXI. The Molens

       XXXII. A Run Through the Night

       XXXIII. The Captive Lion

       XXXIV. Protestations

       XXXV. The Witness for the Defence

       XXXVI. Brother Philosophers

       XXXVII. Dawn

       XXXVIII. The Hour

       XXXIX. "Sauve Qui Peut"

       XL. The Loser Pays

       XLI. "Vengeance is Mine"

       XLII. The Fight in the Doorway

       XLIII. Leyden Once More

       XLIV. Blake of Blakeney

       XLV. The End

      An apology

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      Does it need one?

      If so it must also come from those members of the Blakeney family in whose veins runs the blood of that Sir Percy Blakeney who is known to history as the Scarlet Pimpernel—for they in a manner are responsible for the telling of this veracious chronicle.

      For the past eight years now—ever since the true story of The Scarlet Pimpernel was put on record by the present author—these gentle, kind, inquisitive friends have asked me to trace their descent back to an ancestor more remote than was Sir Percy, to one in fact who by his life and by his deeds stands forth from out the distant past as a conclusive proof that the laws which govern the principles of heredity are as unalterable as those that rule the destinies of the universe. They have pointed out to me that since Sir Percy Blakeney's was an exceptional personality, possessing exceptional