The Laughing Cavalier

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By Emmuska Orczy Orczy

Published 1914
George H. Doran company

439 pages

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Half-title: The laughing cavalier; the story of the ancestor of the Scarlet pimpernel.

AN APOLOGY	10
haarlem, pimpernel, swagger
THE PROLOGUE	13
gilda, nicolaes, barneveld
THE ADVENTURE I NEW YEARS EVE	30
mynheer, florins, stadhuis
THE FRACAS BY THE POSTERN GATE	38
bucephalus, tiele, papists
AN INTERLUDE	50
lanthorns, pythagoras, socrates
BROTHER AND SISTER	72
nicolaes, gilda, jakob

THE COUNSELS OF PRUDENCE	81
stouten, disinherit, hostelry
THREE PHILOSOPHERS AND THEIR FRIENDS	86
beek, guilders, burghers
THE LODGINGS WHICH WERE PAID FOR	103
gracht, hals, kreutzer
THE PAINTER OF PICTURES	114
mevrouw, hals, frans
THE LAUGHING CAVALIER	120
frans, ricketty, blackguard
THE BARGAIN	132
gracht, duenna, evensong
THE PORTRAIT	138
burgomaster, rogue, easel
THE SPANISH WENCH	146
lanthorns, ricketty, oude
AFTER EVENSONG	156
kreutzers, evensong, jakob
LEYDEN	167
mevrouw, sledge, wench
AN UNDERSTANDING	174
rotterdam, duenna, blandly
THE START	185
rhyn, skates, waterways
IN THE KINGDOM OF THE NIGHT	188
skater, heigh, meer
BACK AGAIN IN HAARLEM	192
brigands, burgher, der meer
CHAPTER PAGE XXII A DOUBLE PLEDGE	204
beres, cornelius, million guilders
A SPY FROM THE CAMP	214
schie, delft, knave
THE BIRTH OF HATE	223
poniard, knave, quoth
AN ARRANT KNAVE	239
stouten, heemskerk, cypher
THENCE TO ROTTERDAM	256
patz, inebriate, gable
CHECK	263
kaftan, opher, serving woman
CHECK AGAIN	270
hostel, obsequious, shirk
A NOCTURNE	276
bavon, meseems, watchmen
THE MOLENS	296
heemskerk, kerk, jonge
A RUN THROUGH THE NIGHT	308
jingled
THE CAPTIVE LION	316
enburg, doublet, wallet
PROTESTATIONS	325
marnix, walburg, brigands
THE WITNESS FOR THE DEFENCE	335
pinioned, raftered, schwarzer
BROTHER PHILOSOPHERS	351
compeer, sauve, socrates
DAWN	362
gibbet, louts, forger
THE HOUR	369
curtly, prisoner, aught
SAUVE Qui PEUT	375
apens, sauve, gibbet
THE LOSER PAYS	382
scheveningen, pinioned, lucas
THE FIGHT IN THE DOORWAY	400
bucephalus, against steel, felt indeed
LEYDEN ONCE MORE	421
casement, loudly proclaim
BLAKE OP BLAKENEY	431
blakeney, cornelius, vagabond
THE END	437
footfall, rogue, murmured

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The Laughing Cavalier
by Baroness Orczy - 2004 - 264 pages
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The Laughing Cavalier
by Emmuska Orczy Orczy - 1914 - 439 pages
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