A Book of Escapes And Hurried Journeys

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John Buchan. A Book of Escapes And Hurried Journeys

A Book of Escapes And Hurried Journeys

Table of Contents

PREFACE

I. — THE FLIGHT TO VARENNES

II. — THE RAILWAY RAID IN GEORGIA

III. — THE ESCAPE OF KING CHARLES AFTER WORCESTER

IV. — FROM PRETORIA TO THE SEA

V. — THE ESCAPE OF PRINCE CHARLES EDWARD

IN BADENOCH AND LOCHABER

IN THE OUTER ISLES

IN SKYE

IN LOCHABER

VI. — TWO AFRICAN JOURNEYS

VII. — THE GREAT MONTROSE

VIII. — THE FLIGHT OF LIEUTENANTS PARER. AND M'INTOSH ACROSS THE WORLD

IX — LORD NITHSDALE'S ESCAPE

X. — SIR ROBERT CARY'S RIDE TO EDINBURGH

XI. — THE ESCAPE OF PRINCESS CLEMENTINA

XII. — ON THE ROOF OF THE WORLD

EPILOGUE—ON RE-READING THE STORIES

THE END

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John Buchan

Published by Good Press, 2021

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About the same moment Drouet and Guillaume came within a mile of Clermont. The night had grown very dark and cloudy, though there was somewhere a moon. They heard voices and discovered it was the postilions from Ste. Menehould turning homewards. These postilions had a story to tell. The berline was not on the Metz road. They had heard the orders given to turn northward to Varennes.

Drouet was a man of action, and in a moment his mind was made up. He must somehow get ahead of the royal carriage which was on the road in the valley below. The only chance was to cut off the corner by taking to the woody ridge of the Argonne, which stretched some 300 feet above the open plain. Now along that eastern scarp of the Argonne runs a green ride which had once been a Roman road. He and his companion galloped through the brushwood till they struck the ride.

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