The Laughing Cavalier: The Story of the Ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel
by Baroness Emmuska Orczy Orczy
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The year is 1623, the place Haarlem in the Netherlands. Diogenes - the first Sir Percy Blakeney, the Scarlet Pimpernel's ancestor - and his friends Pythagoras and Socrates defend justice and the royalist cause. The famous artist Frans Hals also makes an appearance in this historical adventure.
Chapters (98)
- THE LAUGHING CAVALIER
- THE STORY OF THE ANCESTOR OF THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL BARONESS ORCZY
- Author of "Unto Cæsar," "The Scarlet Pimpernel," "El Dorado," "Meadowsweet," etc. NEW YORK GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY Copyright, 1914, By The Ridgway Company Copyright, 1914, By George H. Doran Company
- 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
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