The Greatest Works of Emma Orczy. Emma Orczy

The Greatest Works of Emma Orczy - Emma Orczy


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rel="nofollow" href="#ucdac86be-8447-518b-be4c-55a9edde0b25">CHAPTER IV WATCH-NIGHT

       CHAPTER V BROTHER AND SISTER

       CHAPTER VI THE COUNSELS OF PRUDENCE

       CHAPTER VII THREE PHILOSOPHERS AND THEIR FRIENDS

       CHAPTER VIII THE LODGINGS WHICH WERE PAID FOR

       CHAPTER IX THE PAINTER OF PICTURES

       CHAPTER X THE LAUGHING CAVALIER

       CHAPTER XI THE BARGAIN

       CHAPTER XII THE PORTRAIT

       CHAPTER XIII THE SPANISH WENCH

       CHAPTER XIV AFTER EVENSONG

       CHAPTER XV THE HALT AT BENNEBROCK

       CHAPTER XVI LEYDEN

       CHAPTER XVII AN UNDERSTANDING

       CHAPTER XVIII THE START

       CHAPTER XIX IN THE KINGDOM OF THE NIGHT

       CHAPTER XX BACK AGAIN IN HAARLEM

       CHAPTER XXI A GRIEF-STRICKEN FATHER

       CHAPTER XXII A DOUBLE PLEDGE

       CHAPTER XXIII A SPY FROM THE CAMP

       CHAPTER XXIV THE BIRTH OF HATE

       CHAPTER XXV AN ARRANT KNAVE

       CHAPTER XXVI BACK TO HOUDEKERK

       CHAPTER XXVII THENCE TO ROTTERDAM

       CHAPTER XXVIII CHECK

       CHAPTER XXIX CHECK AGAIN

       CHAPTER XXX A NOCTURNE

       CHAPTER XXXI THE MOLENS

       CHAPTER XXXII A RUN THROUGH THE NIGHT

       CHAPTER XXXIII THE CAPTIVE LION

       CHAPTER XXXIV PROTESTATIONS

       CHAPTER XXXV THE WITNESS FOR THE DEFENCE

       CHAPTER XXXVI BROTHER PHILOSOPHERS

       CHAPTER XXXVII DAWN

       CHAPTER XXVIII THE HOUR

       CHAPTER XXXIX "SAUVE QUI PEUT"

       CHAPTER XL THE LOSER PAYS

       CHAPTER XLI "VENGEANCE IS MINE"

       CHAPTER XLII THE FIGHT IN THE DOORWAY

       CHAPTER XLIII LEYDEN ONCE MORE

       CHAPTER XLIV BLAKE OF BLAKENEY

       CHAPTER XLV THE END

      AN APOLOGY

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      Does it need one?

      If so it must also come from those members of the Blakeney family in whose veins runs the blood of that Sir Percy Blakeney who is known to history as the Scarlet Pimpernel — for they in a manner are responsible for the telling of this veracious chronicle.

      For the past eight years now — ever since the true story of The Scarlet Pimpernel was put on record by the present author — these gentle, kind, inquisitive friends have asked me to trace their descent back to an ancestor more remote than was Sir Percy, to one in fact who by his life and by his deeds stands forth from out the distant past as a conclusive proof that the laws which govern the principles of heredity are as unalterable as those that rule the destinies of the universe. They have pointed out to me that since Sir Percy Blakeney's was an exceptional personality, possessing exceptional characteristics which his friends pronounced sublime and his detractors arrogant — he must have had an ancestor in the dim long ago who was, like him, exceptional, like him possessed of qualities which call forth the devotion of friends and the rancour of enemies. Nay, more! there must have existed at one time or another a man who possessed that same sunny disposition, that same irresistible laughter, that same careless insouciance and adventurous spirit which were subsequently transmitted to his descendants, of whom the Scarlet Pimpernel himself was the most distinguished individual.

      All these were unanswerable arguments, and with the request that accompanied them I had long intended to comply. Time has been my only enemy in thwarting my intentions until now — time and the multiplicity of material and documents to be gone through ere vague knowledge could be turned into certitude.

      Now at last I am in a position to present not only to the Blakeneys themselves, but to all those who look on the Scarlet Pimpernel as their hero and their friend — the true history of one of his most noted forebears.

      Strangely enough his history has never been written before. And yet countless millions must during the past three centuries have stood before his picture; we of the present generation,


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