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Ouida (Maria Louise Ramé). Under Two Flags (Romance Classic)
Under Two Flags (Romance Classic)
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Table of Contents
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Chapter 1 “Beauty of the Brigades.”
Chapter 2. The Loose Box, and the Tabagie
Chapter 3. The Soldiers’ Blue Ribbon
Chapter 4. Love a La Mode
Chapter 5. Under the Keeper’s Tree
Chapter 6. The End of a Ringing Run
Chapter 7. After a Richmond Dinner
Chapter 8. A Stag Hunt Au Clair De La Lune
Chapter 9. The Painted Bit
Chapter 10 “Petite Reine.”
Chapter 11. For a Woman’s Sake
Chapter 12. The King’s Last Service
Chapter 13. In the Cafe of the Chasseurs
Chapter 14 “De Profundis” Before “Plunging.”
Chapter 15 “L’amie Du Drapeau.”
Chapter 16. Cigarette En Bacchante
Chapter 17. Under the Houses of Hair
Chapter 18. Cigarette En Bienfaitrice
Chapter 19. The Ivory Squadrons
Chapter 20. Cigarette En Conseil Et Cachette
Chapter 21. Cigarette En Condottiera
Chapter 22. The Mistress of the White King
Chapter 23. The Little Leopard of France
Chapter 24 “Milady Aux Beaux Yeux Bleus.”
Chapter 25 “Le Bon Zig.”
Chapter 26. Zaraila
Chapter 27. The Love of the Amazon
Chapter 28. The Leathern Zackrist
Chapter 29. By the Bivouac Fire
Chapter 30. Seul Au Monde
Chapter 31 “Je Vous Achete Votre Vie.”
Chapter 32 “Venetia.”
Chapter 33. The Gift of the Cross
Chapter 34. The Desert Hawk and the Paradise-Bird
Chapter 35. Ordeal by Fire
Chapter 36. The Vengeance of the Little One
Chapter 37. In the Midst of Her Army
Chapter The Last. At Rest
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Ouida (Maria Louise Ramé)
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The Moselle Cup was brought to refresh the tired champion, and before he drank it Bertie glanced at a certain place in the Grand Stand and bent his head as the cup touched his lips: it was a dedication of his victory to the Queen of Beauty. Then he threw himself lightly out of saddle, and, as Forest King was led away for the after-ceremony of bottling, rubbing, and clothing, his rider, regardless of the roar and hubbub of the course, and of the tumultuous cheers that welcomed both him and his horse from the men who pressed round him, into whose pockets he had put thousands upon thousands, and whose ringing hurrahs greeted the “Guards’ Crack,” passed straight up toward Jimmy Delmar and held out his hand.
“You gave me a close thing, Major Delmar. The Vase is as much yours as mine; if your chestnut had been as good a water jumper as he is a fencer, we should have been neck to neck at the finish.”
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