I Will Repay
Part of Baroness Orczy’s French Revolution cycle, this 1906 novel turns on a childhood vow. Juliette de Marny watches her brother die in a duel with Paul Deroulede and swears at his deathbed that she will one day repay the killing. Ten years later, with the Terror tightening its grip on Paris, she works her way into Deroulede’s household to spring her trap. What she does not plan for is falling in love with the man she has sworn to ruin, a change of heart that leaves her caught between her oath and her conscience. Orczy plays the melodrama for all it is worth, with the Scarlet Pimpernel himself hovering at the edges. Free PDF and EPUB edition available here.
About the Author
Baroness Emmuska Orczy (1865 to 1947) was a Hungarian-born British author who settled in London and made her name with The Scarlet Pimpernel. Her sweeping romances of the French Revolution created one of fiction’s first masked heroes and shaped a century of adventure storytelling.
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I Will Repay (1906) is a public domain work.
| # | Chapter | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Prologue Part 1 | 16:00 | |
| 2 | Prologue Part 2 | 15:13 | |
| 3 | Chapter 1 - Paris: 1793 The Outrage | 15:27 | |
| 4 | Chapter 2 - Citizen-Deputy | 11:24 | |
| 5 | Chapter 3 - Hospitality | 8:55 | |
| 6 | Chapter 4 - The Faithful House-dog and Chapter 5 - A Day in the Woods | 17:50 | |
| 7 | Chapter 6 -The Scarlet Pimpernel | 10:57 | |
| 8 | Chapter 7 - A Warning and Chapter 8 - Anne Mie | 16:03 | |
| 9 | Chapter 9 - Jealousy and Chapter 10 - Denunciation | 15:09 | |
| 10 | Chapter 11 - "Vengeance is mine" | 15:09 | |
| 11 | Chapter 12 - The sword of Damocles | 21:08 | |
| 12 | Chapter 13 - Tangled Meshes and Chapter 14 - A happy moment | 14:21 | |
| 13 | Chapter 15 - Detected and Chapter 16 - Under arrest | 22:17 | |
| 14 | Chapter 17 - Attonement and Chapter 18 - The Luxembourg Prison | 13:44 | |
| 15 | Chapter 19 - Complexities and Chapter 20 - The Cheval Borgne | 21:31 | |
| 16 | Chapter 21 - A Jacobin orator and Chatper 22 - The close of day | 24:51 | |
| 17 | Chapter 23 - Justice and Chapter 24 - The trial of Juliette | 18:29 | |
| 18 | Chapter 25 - The defence and Chapter 26 - Sentence of death | 20:50 | |
| 19 | Chapter 27 - The Fructidor Riots and Chapter 28 - The unexpected | 20:41 | |
| 20 | Chapter 29 - Père Lachaise and Chapter 30 - Conclusion | 19:34 |
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