Leatherface: A Tale of Old Flanders
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Emma Orczy. Leatherface: A Tale of Old Flanders
PROLOGUE. MONS, SEPTEMBER, 1572
BOOK ONE: BRUSSELS
CHAPTER I. THE BLOOD COUNCIL
CHAPTER II. THE SUBJECT RACE
CHAPTER III. THE RULING CASTE
CHAPTER IV. JUSTICE
CHAPTER V. VENGEANCE
BOOK TWO: DENDERMONDE
CHAPTER VI. A STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND
CHAPTER VII. THE REBELS
CHAPTER VIII. THE WATCHER IN THE NIGHT
CHAPTER IX. A DIVIDED DUTY
CHAPTER X. ENEMIES
CHAPTER XI. UTTER LONELINESS
BOOK THREE: GHENT
CHAPTER XII. REPRISALS
CHAPTER XIII. MY FAITHFUL WATCH-DOG
CHAPTER XIV. THE TYRANTS
CHAPTER XV. TWO PICTURES
CHAPTER XVI. THE RIGHT TO DIE
CHAPTER XVII. TRUTH AND PERFIDY
CHAPTER XVIII. THE LAST STAND
CHAPTER XIX. THE HOUR OF VICTORY
EPILOGUE
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Less than a month later, and tyranny is once more triumphant. Mons has capitulated, Orange has withdrawn his handful of mutinous troops into Holland, Valenciennes has been destroyed and Mechlin-beautiful, gracious, august Mechlin-with her cathedrals and her trade-halls, her ancient monuments of art and civilisation has been given over for three days to the lust and rapine of Spanish soldiery!
Three whole days! E'en now we think on those days and shudder-shudder at what we know, at what the chroniclers have told us, the sacking of churches, the pillaging of monasteries, the massacre of peaceful, harmless citizens!
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"This means ruin for us all, Mark," he murmured, "black, hideous ruin; Alva will never forgive; de Vargas will hate us with the hatred born of humiliation… A public affront to his daughter! … O Holy Virgin protect us!" he continued half-incoherently, "it will mean the scaffold for me, the stake for your mother…"
He rose and said curtly, "I must speak with your mother."
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