Leatherface: A Tale of Old Flanders

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Baroness Emmuska Orczy Orczy. Leatherface: A Tale of Old Flanders

Leatherface: A Tale of Old Flanders

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PROLOGUE: MONS, SEPTEMBER, 1572

PROLOGUE

BOOK ONE: BRUSSELS

BOOK TWO: DENDERMONDE

BOOK THREE: GHENT

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Emmuska Orczy Baroness Orczy

Published by Good Press, 2021

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"The loyalists in Flanders," quoth President Viglius under his breath, "declare that the agency which works for the safety of the Prince of Orange is a supernatural one. They speak of a tall, manlike figure whose face is hidden by a mask, and who invariably appears whenever the Prince of Orange's life is in danger. Some people call this mysterious being 'Leatherface,' but no one seems actually to have seen him. It sounds as if he were truly an emissary of the devil."

And as the President spoke, a strange silence fell around the council board: every cheek had become pale, every lip quivered. De Vargas made a quick sign of the Cross over his chest: Alva drew a small medal from the inside of his doublet and kissed it devoutly. These men who talked airily of rapine and of violence perpetrated against innocent people, who gloated over torture and misery which they loved to inflict, were held in the cold grip of superstitious fear, and their trembling lips uttered abject prayers for mercy to the God whom they outraged by every act of their infamous lives.

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