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Thomas B. Costain. The Amateur Diplomat
The Amateur Diplomat
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. A CANADIAN IN SERAJOZ
CHAPTER II. THE ROYAL BALL
CHAPTER III. DARING PROPOSALS
CHAPTER IV. THE MEETING OF FOUR NATIONS
CHAPTER V. AN ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION
CHAPTER VI. THE KING'S COMMAND
CHAPTER VII. GENERAL LEBRUN
CHAPTER VIII. THE QUARREL
CHAPTER IX. A NIGHT OF RIOTS
CHAPTER X. FATE & CO
CHAPTER XI. THE ABDUCTION
CHAPTER XII. INTRODUCING PHIL CRANE
CHAPTER XIII. IN THE HILL COUNTRY
CHAPTER XIV. TAKE LARESCU
CHAPTER XV. THE TRUMP CARD
CHAPTER XVI. THE RESCUING PARTY
CHAPTER XVII. THE RENUNCIATION
CHAPTER XVIII. TWO FIGHT: ONE FALLS
CHAPTER XIX. MARRIED OVER THE TONGS
CHAPTER XX. THE PLOT DISCOVERED
CHAPTER XXI. PLANNING A FUTURE
CHAPTER XXII. IRONIA INVADED
CHAPTER XXIII. CRANE'S ESCAPE
CHAPTER XXIV. THE NEW KING
CHAPTER XXV. THE ASSASSINATION
CHAPTER XXVI. THE DEATH OF THE KING
CHAPTER XXVII. A LETTER OF FAREWELL
CHAPTER XXVIII. THE REUNION
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Thomas B. Costain, Hugh S. Eayrs
A Novel
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But, to Fenton, the possibilities did not stop there. Prince Peter was father of the loveliest woman in the world! Ever since he had spent those golden minutes with the Princess Olga, thoughts of her had never been entirely out of his mind. Even as he had dashed headlong through the gardens, a picture of her as she had last appeared to him, in all her regal beauty and dainty girlishness floating off to the strains of "The Blue Danube" on the arm of a native officer, had remained with him. Could this great sorrow be permitted to come to her?
It was to the princess herself that he finally told the story of the plot. He could not locate her father, and, in sheer desperation, sought her out where she stood at the end of the long ball-room. His dishevelled appearance created comment in the group surrounding her, but Fenton, casting finesse to the winds, rode rough-shod over all considerations of court etiquette.
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