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Baroness Orczy. A Bride Of The Plains
A Bride Of The Plains
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 “God Bless Them All! They Are Good Lads.”
Chapter 2 “Money Won’t Buy Everything.”
Chapter 3 “You Will Wait For Me?”
Chapter 4 “Now That He Is Dead.”
Chapter 5 “Love Will Follow.”
Chapter 6 “I Don’t Wish To Marry; Not Yet.”
Chapter 7 “They Are Jews And We Are Hungarians.”
Chapter 8 “I Put The Bunda Away Somewhere.”
Chapter 9 “Then, As Now, May God Protect You.”
Chapter 10 “The Best Way Of All.”
Chapter 11 “After That, Happiness Will Begin.”
Chapter 12 “It Is Too Late.”
Chapter 13 “He Must Make You Happy.”
Chapter 14 “It Is True.”
Chapter 15 “That Is Fair, I Think.”
Chapter 16 “The Waters Of The Maros Flow Sluggishly.”
Chapter 17 “I Am Here To See That You Be Kind To Her.”
Chapter 18 “I Must Punish Her.”
Chapter 19 “Now Go And Fetch The Key.”
Chapter 20 “You Happen To Be Of My Race And Of My Blood.”
Chapter 21 “Jealous, Like A Madman.”
Chapter 22 “I Go Where I Shall Be More Welcome.”
Chapter 23 “On The Eve Of One’s Wedding Day Too.”
Chapter 24 “If You Loved Me.”
Chapter 25 “In Any Case Elsa Is Not For You.”
Chapter 26 “What Had Andor Done?”
Chapter 27 “The Shadow That Fell From The Tall Sunflowers.”
Chapter 28 “We Shall Hear Of Another Tragedy By And By.”
Chapter 29 “Some Day.”
Chapter 30 “Kyrie Eleison.”
Chapter 31 “What About Me.”
Chapter 32 “The Land Beyond The Sunset.”
THE END
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Baroness Orczy
Published by Good Press, 2021
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From more than one group of spectators came similar or other comments on pretty Elsa and her partner. The general consensus of opinion seemed to be that it was as well Andor was going away for three years. Old Kapus and his wife would never allow their daughter to marry a man with pockets as empty as their own, and it was no use waiting for dead men’s shoes. Lakatos Pál, the rich uncle, from whom Andor was bound to inherit some day, was little past the prime of life. Until he died how would Andor and a penniless wife contrive to live? For Lakatos Pál was a miser and hoarded his money—moreover, he was a confirmed bachelor and woman-hater; he would do nothing for Andor if the young man chose to marry.
Ah, well! it was a pity! for a better-looking, better-matched pair could not be found in the whole county of Arad.
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