A Modern Mercenary
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Prichard Kate. A Modern Mercenary
CHAPTER I. A LIEUTENANT OF FRONTIER CAVALRY
CHAPTER II. A GENTLEMAN OF THE GUARD
CHAPTER III. THE GENTLEMEN OF THE GUARD
CHAPTER IV. DANGER SIGNALS
CHAPTER V. GOOD LUCK AND A FIREFLY
CHAPTER VI. THE CLOISTER OF ST. ANTHONY
CHAPTER VII. ONE WOMAN'S DIPLOMACY
CHAPTER VIII. A QUESTION OF THE GUARD
CHAPTER IX. THE CASTLE OF SAGAN
CHAPTER X. COUNT SIMON OF SAGAN
CHAPTER XI. A COUNSEL OF EXPEDIENCY
CHAPTER XII. ANTHONY UNZIAR
CHAPTER XIII. LOVE IN TWO SHADES
CHAPTER XIV. HALF A PROMISE
CHAPTER XV. COLENDORP
CHAPTER XVI 'WITH YOUR LIPS TO THE HURT.'
CHAPTER XVII. IRIS
CHAPTER XVIII. THE SWORD OF UNZIAR
CHAPTER XIX. IN DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS
CHAPTER XX. UNDER THE PINES
CHAPTER XXI. LOVE'S BEGGAR
CHAPTER XXII. IN LOVE WITH HONOUR
CHAPTER XXIII. HOW RALLYWOOD HAD HIS ORDERS
CHAPTER XXIV. ON THE FRONTIER
CHAPTER XXV. A QUESTION OF TWO MORALITIES
CHAPTER XXVI. LOVE'S HANDICAP
CHAPTER XXVII. THE MAN OF THE HOUR
CHAPTER XXVIII. THE ARREST
CHAPTER XXIX. THE COURT-MARTIAL
CHAPTER XXX 'UPON THE GREAT WORLD'S ALTAR-STAIRS.'
CHAPTER XXXI. DUKE GUSTAVE
CHAPTER XXXII. FOR A SEASON
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Shortly before 9.30 Rallywood presented himself at the granite palace, with its four cupolas, which M. Selpdorf occupied in his capacity of First Minister of State. After some slight delay he was ushered into a comfortable study, where he found Selpdorf with a reading-lamp at his elbow, glancing rapidly through a mass of papers that he threw one after another, with apparent carelessness, on the floor beside him.
The chancellor of a small State might very well have been pardoned had he introduced a certain amount of what an old official used to call 'desk dignity' into his dealings with those who approached him, but Selpdorf habitually affected an easy manner and an easy chair. He was a middle-sized man, possessed of a very round head, bald at the crown, but having still a lock of dark hair on the summit of his round forehead; very round eyes set far back in smooth holes, showing little lid; a nose blunt and thick over lips that might have been coarse, but were controlled, and betrayed a lurking humour at the corners, to which the upstanding moustaches seemed to add point. For all his peculiarity of aspect, he was a man who left an impression on the memory of something pleasing and attractive, especially in the minds of women.
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'Do you always treat a lady's glove so?' she asked gravely, and held out her hand for it.
Rallywood looked down at her very deliberately, and something that was neither his will nor his reason decided the next action. He folded the soft suède reverently together.
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