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Baroness Orczy. The Laughing Cavalier
The Laughing Cavalier
Table of Contents
An apology
Prologue
THE LAUGHING CAVALIER
I. New Year's Eve
THE ADVENTURE
CHAPTER II THE FRACAS BY THE POSTERN GATE
CHAPTER III AN INTERLUDE
CHAPTER IV WATCH-NIGHT
CHAPTER V BROTHER AND SISTER
CHAPTER VI THE COUNSELS OF PRUDENCE
CHAPTER VII THREE PHILOSOPHERS AND THEIR FRIENDS
CHAPTER VIII THE LODGINGS WHICH WERE PAID FOR
CHAPTER IX THE PAINTER OF PICTURES
CHAPTER X THE LAUGHING CAVALIER
CHAPTER XI THE BARGAIN
CHAPTER XII THE PORTRAIT
CHAPTER XIII THE SPANISH WENCH
CHAPTER XIV AFTER EVENSONG
CHAPTER XV }THE HALT AT BENNEBROCK
XVI. Leyden
CHAPTER XVII AN UNDERSTANDING
XVIII. The Start
CHAPTER XIX IN THE KINGDOM OF THE NIGHT
CHAPTER XX BACK AGAIN IN HAARLEM
CHAPTER XXI A GRIEF-STRICKEN FATHER
CHAPTER XXII A DOUBLE PLEDGE
CHAPTER XXIII A SPY FROM THE CAMP
CHAPTER XXIV THE BIRTH OF HATE
CHAPTER XXV AN ARRANT KNAVE
CHAPTER XXVI BACK TO HOUDEKERK
CHAPTER XXVII THENCE TO ROTTERDAM
XXVIII. Check
XXIX. Check Again
CHAPTER XXX A NOCTURNE
XXXI. The Molens
CHAPTER XXXII A RUN THROUGH THE NIGHT
CHAPTER XXXIII THE CAPTIVE LION
XXXIV. Protestations
CHAPTER XXXV THE WITNESS FOR THE DEFENCE
CHAPTER XXXVI BROTHER PHILOSOPHERS
XXXVII. Dawn
CHAPTER XXXVIII THE HOUR
CHAPTER XXXIX "SAUVE QUI PEUT"
CHAPTER XL THE LOSER PAYS
CHAPTER XLI "VENGEANCE IS MINE"
CHAPTER XLII THE FIGHT IN THE DOORWAY
CHAPTER XLIII LEYDEN ONCE MORE
CHAPTER XLIV BLAKE OF BLAKENEY
XLV. The End
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Baroness Orczy
Published by Good Press, 2020
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Noiselessly she glided across the room, dragging him after her by the hand. She pulled aside the bed-curtains, without a word pointed to the recess. The bed, built into the wall, was narrow but sure; it smelt sweetly of lavender; the hunted man, his very senses blurred by that overwhelming desire to save his life at any cost, accepted the shelter so innocently offered him. Gathering his long limbs together, he was soon hidden underneath the coverlet.
"Gilda!" came more insistently from behind the heavy door.
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