Emma Orczy. The Bronze Eagle: A Story of the Hundred Days
THE LANDING AT JOUAN
CHAPTER I. THE GLORIOUS NEWS
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CHAPTER II. THE OLD REGIME
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CHAPTER III. THE RETURN OF THE EMPEROR
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CHAPTER IV. THE EMPRESS' MILLIONS
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CHAPTER V. THE RIVALS
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CHAPTER VI. THE CRIME
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CHAPTER VII. THE ASCENT OF THE CAPITOL
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CHAPTER VIII. THE SOUND OF REVELRY BY NIGHT
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CHAPTER IX. THE TARPEIAN ROCK
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CHAPTER X. THE LAST THROW
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CHAPTER XI. THE LOSING HANDS
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CHAPTER XII. THE WINNING HAND
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Where the broad highway between Grenoble and Gap parts company from the turbulent Drac, and after crossing the ravine of Vaulx skirts the plateau of La Motte with its magnificent panorama of forests and mountain peaks, a narrow bridle path strikes off at a sharp angle on the left and in wayward curves continues its length through the woods upwards to the hamlet of Vaulx and the shrine of Notre Dame.
Far away to the west the valley of the Drac lies encircled by the pine-covered slopes of the Lans range, whilst towering some seven thousand and more feet up the snow-clad crest of Grande Moucherolle glistens like a sea of myriads of rose-coloured diamonds under the kiss of the morning sun.
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Clyffurde's winning glance, however, seemed to have conquered his mistrust, for presently, after he had put his mug down again, he stretched out a cordial hand to him.
"Now that our Emperor is back with us," he said as if in apology for his former suspicions, "we, his friends, are bound to look askance at every Englishman we meet."
