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I Will Repay
Set during the French Revolution, the story follows Juliette de Marny, who swore a childhood oath to destroy Paul Déroulède after he killed her brother in a duel.
"I Will Repay" by Baroness Emmuska Orczy is a sequel novel. Set during the French Revolution, the story follows Juliette de Marny, who swore a childhood oath to destroy Paul Déroulède after he killed her brother in a duel.
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The words rang out, clear, strident, passionate, in a crescendo of agonised humiliation.
The boy, quivering with rage, had sprung to his feet, and, losing his balance, he fell forward clutching at the table, whilst with a convulsive movement of the lids, he tried in vain to suppress the tears of shame which were blinding him.
"Coward!" He tried to shout the insult so that all might hear, but his parched throat refused him service, his trembling hand sought the scattered cards upon the table, he collected them together, quickly, nervously, fingering them with feverish energy, then he hurled them at the man opposite, whilst with a final effort he still contrived to mutter: "Coward!"
The older men tried to interpose, but the young ones only laughed, quite prepared for the adventure which must inevitably ensue, the only possible ending to a quarrel such as this.
Conciliation or arbitration was out of the question. Déroulède should have known better than to speak disrespectfully of Adèle de Montchéri, when the little Vicomte de Marny's infatuation for the notorious beauty had been the talk of Paris and Versailles these many months past.
Adèle was very lovely and a veritable tower of greed and egotism. The Marnys were rich and the little Vicomte very young, and just now the brightly-plumaged hawk was busy plucking the latest pigeon, newly arrived from its ancestral cote.
Contents
- 01Prologue.
- 02I Paris: 1783.
- 03II
- 04Chapter I Paris: 1793 The outrage.
- 05Chapter II Citizen-Deputy.
- 06Chapter III Hospitality.
- 07Chapter IV The faithful house-dog.
- 08Chapter V A day in the woods.
- 09Chapter VI The Scarlet Pimpernel.
- 10Chapter VII a warning.
- 11Chapter VIII Anne Mie.
- 12Chapter IX Jealousy.
- 13Chapter X Denunciation.
- 14Chapter XI "Vengeance is mine."
- 15Chapter XII The sword of Damocles.
- 16Chapter XIII Tangled meshes.
- 17Chapter XIV A happy moment.
- 18Chapter XV. Detected.
- 19Chapter XVI Under arrest.
- 20Chapter XVII Atonement.
- 21Chapter XVIII In the Luxembourg prison.
- 22Chapter XIX Complexities.
- 23Chapter XX The Cheval Borgne.
- 24Chapter XXI A Jacobin orator.
- 25Chapter XXII The close of day.
- 26Chapter XXIII Justice.
- 27Chapter XXIV The trial of Juliette.
- 28Chapter XXV The defence.
- 29Chapter XXVI Sentence of death.
- 30Chapter XXVII The Fructidor Riots.
- 31Chapter XXVIII The unexpected.
- 32Chapter XXIX Père Lachaise.
- 33Chapter XXX Conclusion.
About this edition
- Author
- Baroness Emmuska Orczy
- Language
- English
- Era
- Modern (c. 1800–1945)
- Reading level
- Intermediate: some philosophy helps
- Formats
- EPUB, PDF
- Length
- 210 pages
- This edition
- Modern Philosophers
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