The Laughing Cavalier: The Story of the Ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy - HTML preview

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Table of Contents

AN APOLOGY

THE PROLOGUE: HAARLEM—MARCH 29TH, 1623

THE ADVENTURE

CHAPTER I: NEW YEAR'S EVE

CHAPTER II: THE FRACAS BY THE POSTERN GATE

CHAPTER III: AN INTERLUDE

CHAPTER IV: WATCH-NIGHT

CHAPTER V: BROTHER AND SISTER

CHAPTER VI: THE COUNSELS OF PRUDENCE

CHAPTER VII: THREE PHILOSOPHERS AND THEIR FRIENDS

CHAPTER VIII: THE LODGINGS WHICH WERE PAID FOR

CHAPTER IX: THE PAINTER OF PICTURES

CHAPTER X: THE LAUGHING CAVALIER

CHAPTER XI: THE BARGAIN

CHAPTER XII: THE PORTRAIT

CHAPTER XIII: THE SPANISH WENCH

CHAPTER XIV: AFTER EVENSONG

CHAPTER XV: THE HALT AT BENNEBROCK

CHAPTER XVI: LEYDEN

CHAPTER XVII: AN UNDERSTANDING

CHAPTER XVIII: THE START

CHAPTER XIX: IN THE KINGDOM OF THE NIGHT

CHAPTER XX: BACK AGAIN IN HAARLEM

CHAPTER XXI: A GRIEF-STRICKEN FATHER

CHAPTER XXII: A DOUBLE PLEDGE

CHAPTER XXIII: A SPY FROM THE CAMP

CHAPTER XXIV: THE BIRTH OF HATE

CHAPTER XXV: AN ARRANT KNAVE

CHAPTER XXVI: BACK TO HOUDEKERK

CHAPTER XXVII: THENCE TO ROTTERDAM

CHAPTER XXVIII: CHECK

CHAPTER XXIX: CHECK AGAIN

CHAPTER XXX: A NOCTURNE

CHAPTER XXXI: THE MOLENS

CHAPTER XXXII: A RUN THROUGH THE NIGHT

CHAPTER XXXIII: THE CAPTIVE LION

CHAPTER XXXIV: PROTESTATIONS

CHAPTER XXXV: THE WITNESS FOR THE DEFENCE

CHAPTER XXXVI: BROTHER PHILOSOPHERS

CHAPTER XXXVII: DAWN

CHAPTER XXXVIII: THE HOUR

CHAPTER XXXIX: "SAUVE QUI PEUT"

CHAPTER XL: THE LOSER PAYS

CHAPTER XLI: "VENGEANCE IS MINE"

CHAPTER XLII: THE FIGHT IN THE DOORWAY

CHAPTER XLIII: LEYDEN ONCE MORE

CHAPTER XLIV: BLAKE OF BLAKENEY

CHAPTER XLV: THE END