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The Laughing Cavalier

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First published: 1913
Pages: 333

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An Apology and the Prologue
33:31
New Year's Eve
14:46
The Fracas by the Postern Gate
21:36
An Interlude
14:51
Watch-Night
25:36
Brother and Sister
17:00
The Councesl of Prudence
8:49
Three Philosophers and Their Friends
32:06
The Lodgings which were Paid for
18:47
The Painter of Pictures
10:08
The Laughing Cavalier
21:43
The Bargain
10:12
The Portrait
17:20
The Spanish Wench
18:04
After Evensong
10:39
The Halt at Bennebrock
10:18
Layden
15:12
An Understanding
20:41
The Start
6:07
In the Kingdom of the Night
8:34
Back Again in Haarlem
11:44
A Grief-Stricken Father
10:22
A Double Pledge
18:38
A Spy from the Camp
16:42
The Birth of Hate
30:01
An Arrant Knave
17:54
Back to Houdekerk
16:59
Thence to Rotterdam
13:44
Check
13:02
Check Again
10:35
A Nocturn
36:36
The Molens
24:11
A Run Through the Night
15:05
The Captive Lion
15:57
Protestations
17:46
The Witness for the Defence
35:26
Brother Philosophers
22:16
Dawn
13:15
The Hour
10:06
''Sauve Qui Peut''
16:32
The Loser Pays
24:51
''Vengeance is Mine''
8:47
The Fight in the Doorway
43:49
Layden Once More
23:36
Blake of Blakeney
9:19
The End
5:55

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About this book

Published in 1913, this historical adventure invents an ancestor for the Scarlet Pimpernel and sets him loose in the Holland of 1623. The hero is a devil-may-care mercenary whom Orczy claimed was the subject of Frans Hals's famous portrait that gives the book its name. Hired as part of a plot against a wealthy merchant's family, he is ordered to carry off the merchant's daughter, Gilda Beresteyn, only to be pulled between the conspiracy that employs him and his growing sense of honor. Duels, abductions, and shifting loyalties fill out a tale meant to explain where Sir Percy Blakeney's daring came from. Free PDF and EPUB edition available here.

About the author

Baroness Orczy

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.