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Emmuska Orczy. The Laughing Cavalier
The Laughing Cavalier
Table of Contents
AN APOLOGY
THE PROLOGUE HAARLEM—MARCH 29th, 1623
Chapter I—New Year's Eve
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
Chapter XVI—LEYDEN
Chapter XVII—AN UNDERSTANDING
Chapter 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
Chapter XXVIII—CHECK
Chapter XXIX—CHECK AGAIN
Chapter XXX—A NOCTURNE
Chapter XXXI—THE MOLENS
Chapter XXXII—A RUN THROUGH THE NIGHT
Chapter XXXIII—THE CAPTIVE LION
Chapter XXXIV—PROTESTATIONS
Chapter XXXV—THE WITNESS FOR THE DEFENCE
Chapter XXXVI—BROTHER PHILOSOPHERS
Chapter 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
Chapter XLV—THE END
THE END
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Emmuska Orczy
Published by Good Press, 2021
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The three men stood close together, sword in hand. To the excited gaze of the crowd they scarcely seemed to be using their swords or to heed those of their aggressors who came threateningly nigh. They stood quite quietly up against the wall, hardly making a movement, their sword hand and wrist never appeared to stir, but many who had been in the forefront had retired howling and the snow all around was deeply stained with red: Jan Tiele and Willem had broken noses, and Piet had lost one ear.
The three men were hatless and the faces of two of them were smeared with blood. The third, taller and broader than the others—stood between them, and with those that passed him closely he bandied mocking words.
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