British Mysteries Omnibus - The Emma Orczy Edition (65+ Titles in One Edition). Emma Orczy
ball given by the Princess Marïonoff, in her palace at St. Petersburg, certainly the most admired among all the belles was Madame Volenski, née Demidoff.
No one noticed, however, that she and her husband exchanged a meaning smile as the Princess displayed to her guests a pair of the rarest vieux Vienne candlesticks, which it was discreetly whispered had been presented to her by his Eminence the Papal Nuncio himself, on behalf of no less a person than his Catholic and Apostolic Majesty Franz Jozef I.
The Nest of the Sparrowhawk
PART I The Nest of the Sparrowhawk
CHAPTER I THE HOUSE OF A KENTISH SQUIRE
CHAPTER II ON A JULY AFTERNOON
CHAPTER VI UNDER THE SHADOW OF THE ELMS
CHAPTER VII THE STRANGER WITHIN THE GATES
CHAPTER VIII PRINCE AMÉDÉ D'ORLÉANS
CHAPTER XIV THE HOUSE IN LONDON
CHAPTER XX MY LORD PROTECTOR'S PATROL
CHAPTER XXII BREAKING THE NEWS
CHAPTER XXIII THE ABSENT FRIEND
CHAPTER XXVII LADY SUE'S FORTUNE
CHAPTER XXVIII HUSBAND AND WIFE
CHAPTER XXX ALL BECAUSE OF THE TINDER-BOX
CHAPTER XXXII THE PATH NEAR THE CLIFFS
CHAPTER XXXV THE SMITH'S FORGE
CHAPTER XXXVIII THE VOICE OF THE DEAD
CHAPTER XXXIX THE HOME-COMING OF ADAM LAMBERT
CHAPTER XLIII THE SANDS OF EPPLE
PART I
The Nest of the Sparrowhawk
CHAPTER I
THE HOUSE OF A KENTISH SQUIRE