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قراءة كتاب Lord Tony's Wife: An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel
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Lord Tony's Wife: An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel
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LORD TONY'S WIFE
AN ADVENTURE OF THE
SCARLET PIMPERNEL
BY
BARONESS ORCZY
AUTHOR OF "THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL," "THE LAUGHING
CAVALIER," ETC.
NEW YORK
GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1917,
BY GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
To
DORA COUNTESS OF CHESTERFIELD
A TOKEN OF FRIENDSHIP AND LOVE.
Emmuska Orczy.
CONTENTS
| PAGE | ||
| Prologue: Nantes, 1789 | 11 |
| BOOK ONE: BATH, 1793 | ||
| CHAPTER | ||
| I. | The Moor | 43 |
| II. | The Bottom Inn | 50 |
| III. | The Assembly Rooms | 78 |
| IV. | The Father | 100 |
| V. | The Nest | 109 |
| VI. | The Scarlet Pimpernel | 123 |
| VII. | Marguerite | 130 |
| VIII. | The Road to Portishead | 134 |
| IX. | The Coast of France | 147 |
| BOOK TWO: NANTES, DECEMBER, 1793 | ||
| I. | The Tiger's Lair | 163 |
| II. | Le Bouffay | 195 |
| III. | The Fowlers | 212 |
| IV. | The Net | 234 |
| V. | The Message of Hope | 256 |
| VI. | The Rat Mort | 267 |
| VII. | The Fracas in the Tavern | 279 |
| VIII. | The English Adventurers | 299 |
| IX. | The Proconsul | 313 |
| X. | Lord Tony | 327 |
PROLOGUE
NANTES, 1789
I
"Tyrant! tyrant! tyrant!"
It was Pierre who spoke, his voice was hardly raised above a murmur, but there was such an intensity of passion expressed in his face, in the fingers of his hand which closed slowly and convulsively as if they were clutching the throat of a struggling viper, there was so much hate in those muttered words, so much power, such compelling and awesome determination that an ominous silence fell upon the village lads and the men who sat with him in the low narrow room of the auberge des Trois Vertus.
Even the man in the tattered coat and threadbare breeches,