Emma Orczy. Lord Tony's Wife: An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel
PROLOGUE. NANTES, 1789
BOOK ONE: BATH, 1793
CHAPTER I. THE MOOR
CHAPTER II. THE BOTTOM INN
CHAPTER III. THE ASSEMBLY ROOMS
CHAPTER IV. THE FATHER
CHAPTER V. THE NEST
CHAPTER VI. THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL
CHAPTER VII. MARGUERITE
CHAPTER VIII. THE ROAD TO PORTISHEAD
CHAPTER IX. THE COAST OF FRANCE
BOOK TWO: NANTES, DECEMBER, 1793
CHAPTER I. THE TIGER'S LAIR
CHAPTER II. LE BOUFFAY
CHAPTER III. THE FOWLERS
CHAPTER IV. THE NET
CHAPTER V. THE MESSAGE OF HOPE
CHAPTER VI. THE RAT MORT
CHAPTER VII. THE FRACAS IN THE TAVERN
CHAPTER VIII. THE ENGLISH ADVENTURERS
CHAPTER IX. THE PROCONSUL
CHAPTER X. LORD TONY
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Silence. Loneliness. Desolation.
And the darkness of late afternoon in November, when the fog from the Bristol Channel has laid its pall upon moor and valley and hill: the last grey glimmer of a wintry sunset has faded in the west: earth and sky are wrapped in the gloomy veils of oncoming night. Some little way ahead a tiny light flickers feebly.
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"What about the daughter?" reiterated Chauvelin.
"Yvonne de Kernogan has never seen Pierre Adet the miller's son," replied the other curtly. "She is now the affianced wife of Martin-Roget the millionaire banker of Brest. To-night I shall persuade M. le duc to allow my marriage with his daughter to take place within the week. I shall plead pressing business in Holland and my desire that my wife shall accompany me thither. The duke will consent and Yvonne de Kernogan will not be consulted. The day after my wedding I shall be on board the Hollandia with my wife and father-in-law, and together we will be on our way to Nantes where Carrier will deal with them both."
