The Essential Writings of Emma Orczy. Emma Orczy

The Essential Writings of Emma Orczy - Emma Orczy


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SIX News

       CHAPTER SEVEN Monsieur le Professeur

       CHAPTER EIGHT Maurin the Lawyer

       CHAPTER NINE Orders from the Chief

       CHAPTER TEN The Abbé Edgeworth

       CHAPTER ELEVEN The Morning After

       CHAPTER TWELVE A False Move

       BOOK II THE DOCTOR

       CHAPTER THIRTEEN The Château de la Rodière

       CHAPTER FOURTEEN An Outrage

       CHAPTER FIFTEEN Alarming News

       CHAPTER SIXTEEN Rumour and Counter-Rumour

       CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Timely Warning

       CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Impending Trouble

       CHAPTER NINETEEN The League

       CHAPTER TWENTY A Likely Ally

       BOOK III MADEMOISELLE

       CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE Citizen Chauvelin

       CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO At the Château

       CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE The Rigaudon

       CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR A Strange Proposal

       BOOK IV THE TRAITOR

       CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE Mutiny

       CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX Open Revolt

       CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN Treachery

       CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT Check

       CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE Checkmate

       CHAPTER THIRTY Dishonour

       BOOK V THE CHIEF

       CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE The Dream

       CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO Stratagem

       CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE The Bald Pate of Chance

       CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR The English Spy

       CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE An Unwelcome Guest

       CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX Duped

       CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN Accusing Spectres

       CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT Sister Anne

       CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE The Canadian

       CHAPTER FORTY Remorse

       CHAPTER FORTY-ONE Epilogue

      BOOK I

       THE ABBÉ

       Table of Contents

      CHAPTER ONE

       The King on His Trial

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      The Hall of the Pas Perdus, the precincts of the House of Justice, the corridors, the bureaux of the various officials, judges and advocates were all thronged that day as they had been during all the week, ever since Tuesday when the first question was put to the vote: "Is Louis Capet guilty of conspiring against liberty?" Louis Capet! otherwise Louis XVI, descendant of a long line of kings of the Grand Monarque of Saint Louis, himself the anointed, the crowned King of France! And now! Arraigned at the bar before his fellow-men, before his one-time devoted subjects, or supposedly devoted, standing before them like any criminal, accused not of murder, or forgery or theft, but of conspiring against liberty.

      A king on his trial! And for his life! Let there be no doubt about that. It is a matter of life or death for the King of France. There has been talk, endless talk and debate in the Hall of Justice ever since the eleventh day of December — over a month ago now when Louis first appeared before the bar of the Convention. Fifty-seven questions were put to the accused. "Louis Capet, didst thou do this, that or the other? Didst thou conspire against liberty?" Louis to all the questions gave the simple reply: "No! I did not do that, nor did I do the other. If I did, it was in accordance with the then existing laws of France."

      A king on his trial! Heavens above, what a stupendous event! One that had only occurred once before in history — a hundred and fifty years ago when Charles I, King of England, stood at the bar before his people and Parliament, accused by them of conspiring against their liberty. The end of that was regicide. And now once again a king stood before his people accused of conspiring against their liberty. What the end would be, no one doubted for a moment. The paramount significance of the tragedy, the vital importance of what was at stake was reflected in the grave demeanour of the crowd that gathered day after day inside the precincts of the House of Justice. Men of all ages, of all creeds, of every kind of political opinion foregathered in the Salle des Pas Perdus, waited mostly in silence for scraps of news


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