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Baroness Orczy
The Laughing Cavalier
Published by Good Press, 2020
EAN 4064066422943
Table of Contents
II. The Fracas by the Postern Gate
VII. Three Philosophers and their Friends
VIII. The Lodgings which were Paid for
XIX. In the Kingdom of the Night
XXXII. A Run Through the Night
XXXV. The Witness for the Defence
XLII. The Fight in the Doorway
An apology
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