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Castles in the Air

Baroness Emmuska Orczy

At the start of the book, we learn about Hector Ratichon’s colorful past and present life as a self-proclaimed "confidant" who takes pride in his dubious accomplishments.

"Castles in the Air" by Baroness Emmuska Orczy is a novel. At the start of the book, we learn about Hector Ratichon’s colorful past and present life as a self-proclaimed "confidant" who takes pride in his dubious accomplishments.

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My name is Ratichon—Hector Ratichon, at your service, and I make so bold as to say that not even my worst enemy would think of minimizing the value of my services to the State. For twenty years now have I placed my powers at the disposal of my country: I have served the Republic, and was confidential agent to Citizen Robespierre; I have served the Empire, and was secret factotum to our great Napoléon; I have served King Louis—with a brief interval of one hundred days— for the past two years, and I can only repeat that no one, in the whole of France, has been so useful or so zealous in tracking criminals, nosing out conspiracies, or denouncing traitors as I have been.

And yet you see me a poor man to this day: there has been a persistently malignant Fate which has worked against me all these years, and would—but for a happy circumstance of which I hope anon to tell you—have left me just as I was, in the matter of fortune, when I first came to Paris and set up in business as a volunteer police agent at No. 96 Rue Daunou.

Contents

  1. 01Foreword
  2. 02Castles in the Air
  3. 03Chapter I. — a Roland for His Oliver
  4. 041.
  5. 052.
  6. 063.
  7. 074.
  8. 085.
  9. 09Chapter II. — a Fool’s Paradise
  10. 101.
  11. 112.
  12. 123.
  13. 134.
  14. 145.
  15. 15Chapter III. — on the Brink
  16. 161.
  17. 172.
  18. 183.
  19. 194.
  20. 205.
  21. 216.
  22. 22Chapter IV. — Carissimo
  23. 231.
  24. 242.
  25. 253.
  26. 264.
  27. 275.
  28. 28Chapter V. — the Toys
  29. 291.
  30. 302.
  31. 313.
  32. 324.
  33. 33Chapter VI. — Honour Among ———
  34. 341.
  35. 352.
  36. 363.
  37. 374.
  38. 385.
  39. 39Chapter VII. — an Over-Sensitive Heart
  40. 401.
  41. 412.
  42. 423.
  43. 434.
  44. 44The End

About this edition

Author
Baroness Emmuska Orczy
Language
English
Era
Modern (c. 1800–1945)
Reading level
Intermediate: some philosophy helps
Formats
EPUB, PDF
Length
202 pages
This edition
Modern Philosophers

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