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قراءة كتاب The Bright Face of Danger Being an Account of Some Adventures of Henri de Launay, Son of the Sieur de la Tournoire
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The Bright Face of Danger Being an Account of Some Adventures of Henri de Launay, Son of the Sieur de la Tournoire
The Bright Face of Danger
Being an Account of Some Adventures of Henri de Launay, Son of the Sieur de la Tournoire.
Freely Translated into Modern English
By Robert Neilson Stephens
Author of "An Enemy to the King," "Philip Winwood,"
"The Mystery of Murray Davenport," etc.
Illustrated by H. C. Edwards
Boston
L. C. Page & Company
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Copyright, 1904
By L. C. Page & Company
Entered at Stationers' Hall, London
All rights reserved
Published April, 1904
Colonial Press
Electrotyped and Printed by C. H. Simonds & Co.
Boston. Mass., U.S.A.
THE BRIGHT FACE OF DANGER is, in a distant way, a sequel to "An Enemy to the King," but may be read alone, without any reference to that tale. The title is a phrase of Robert Louis Stevenson's.
THE AUTHOR.
"'I GIVE YOU ONE CHANCE FOR YOUR LIFE,' SAID I QUICKLY."
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I. Monsieur Henri de Launay Sets Out on a Journey
CHAPTER II. A Young Man Who Went Singing
CHAPTER III. Where the Lady Was
CHAPTER IV. Who the Lady Was
CHAPTER V. The Chateau de Lavardin
CHAPTER VI. What the Peril Was
CHAPTER VII. Strange Disappearances
CHAPTER VIII. Mathilde
CHAPTER IX. The Winding Stairs
CHAPTER X. More Than Mere Pity
CHAPTER XI. The Rat-Hole and the Water-Jug
CHAPTER XII. The Rope Ladder
CHAPTER XIII. The Parting
CHAPTER XIV. In the Forest
CHAPTER XV. The Tower of Morlon
CHAPTER XVI. The Mercy of Captain Ferragant
CHAPTER XVII. The Sword of La Tournoire
CHAPTER XVIII. The Moustaches of Brignan de Brignan
CHAPTER XIX. Afterwards
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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
"'I give you one chance for your life,' said I quickly"
"'And now she will wait for him in vain!'"
"We were interrupted by a low cry"
"'The wretches!' said the tortured Count, staggering to his feet"
"I leaped over the bed, and upon the man who was trying to strangle the Countess"
"My father's thrusts became now so quick and continuous"
THE BRIGHT FACE OF DANGER
CHAPTER I.
MONSIEUR HENRI DE LAUNAY SETS OUT ON A JOURNEY
If, on the first Tuesday in June, in the year 1608, anybody had asked me on what business I was riding towards Paris, and if I had answered, "To cut off the moustaches of a gentleman I have never seen, that I may toss them at the feet of a lady who has taunted me with that gentleman's superiorities,"—if I had made this