I Will Repay
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Emma Orczy. I Will Repay
PROLOGUE
CHAPTER I. Paris: 1793. The outrage
CHAPTER II. Citizen-Deputy
CHAPTER III. Hospitality
CHAPTER IV. The faithful house-dog
CHAPTER V. A day in the woods
CHAPTER VI. The Scarlet Pimpernel
CHAPTER VII. A warning
CHAPTER VIII. Anne Mie
CHAPTER IX. Jealousy
CHAPTER X. Denunciation
CHAPTER XI "Vengeance is mine."
CHAPTER XII. The sword of Damocles
CHAPTER XIII. Tangled meshes
CHAPTER XIV. A happy moment
CHAPTER XV. Detected
CHAPTER XVI. Under arrest
CHAPTER XVII. Atonement
CHAPTER XVIII. In the Luxembourg prison
CHAPTER XIX. Complexities
CHAPTER XX. The Cheval Borgne
CHAPTER XXI. A Jacobin orator
CHAPTER XXII. The close of day
CHAPTER XXIII. Justice
CHAPTER XXIV. The trial of Juliette
CHAPTER XXV. The defence
CHAPTER XXVI. Sentence of death
CHAPTER XXVII. The Fructidor Riots
CHAPTER XXVIII. The unexpected
CHAPTER XXIX. Père Lachaise
CHAPTER XXX. Conclusion
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It would have been very difficult to say why Citizen Déroulède was quite so popular as he was. Still more difficult would it have been to state the reason why he remained immune from the prosecutions, which were being conducted at the rate of several scores a day, now against the moderate Gironde, anon against the fanatic Mountain, until the whole of France was transformed into one gigantic prison, that daily fed the guillotine.
But Déroulède remained unscathed. Even Merlin's law of the suspect had so far failed to touch him. And when, last July, the murder of Marat brought an entire holocaust of victims to the guillotine—from Adam Lux, who would have put up a statue in honour of Charlotte Corday, with the inscription: "Greater than Brutus", to Charlier, who would have had her publicly tortured and burned at the stake for her crime—Déroulède alone said nothing, and was allowed to remain silent.
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"Of a truth, Citizeness Margot, that grey dress would become you well!" suggested a young man, whose red cap hung in tatters over an evil and dissolute-looking face.
"And all that fine lace would make a splendid jabot round the aristo's neck when Citizen Samson holds up her head for us to see," added another, as with mock elegance he stooped and with two very grimy fingers slightly raised the young girl's grey frock, displaying the lace-edged petticoat beneath.
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