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A novel, 1906

I Will Repay

Baroness Orczy

During the French Terror, Paul Déroulède, a revolutionary trusted by the people, shelters Juliette de Marny from a mob.

30 chapters · about 4 hours

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How it begins

It would have been very difficult to say why Citizen Déroulède was quite so popular as he was. Still more difficult would it have been to state the reason why he remained immune from the prosecutions, which were being conducted at the rate of several scores a day, now against the moderate Gironde, anon against the fanatic Mountain, until the whole of France was transformed into one gigantic prison, that daily fed the guillotine.

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About the book

Length

30 chapters

First published

1906

Shelves

Contents

  1. Chapter 1: The outrage11 min
  2. Chapter 2: Citizen-Deputy8 min
  3. Chapter 3: Hospitality6 min
  4. Chapter 4: The faithful house-dog3 min
  5. Chapter 5: A day in the woods10 min
  6. Chapter 6: The Scarlet Pimpernel8 min
  7. Chapter 7: A warning4 min
  8. Chapter 8: Anne Mie8 min
  9. Chapter 9: Jealousy3 min
  10. Chapter 10: Denunciation8 min
  11. Chapter 11: "Vengeance is mine."12 min
  12. Chapter 12: The sword of Damocles16 min
  13. Chapter 13: Tangled meshes6 min
  14. Chapter 14: A happy moment6 min
  15. Chapter 15: Detected10 min
  16. Chapter 16: Under arrest7 min
  17. Chapter 17: Atonement5 min
  18. Chapter 18: In the Luxembourg prison5 min
  19. Chapter 19: Complexities7 min
  20. Chapter 20: The Cheval Borgne9 min
  21. Chapter 21: A Jacobin orator9 min
  22. Chapter 22: The close of day9 min
  23. Chapter 23: Justice6 min
  24. Chapter 24: The trial of Juliette8 min
  25. Chapter 25: The defence12 min
  26. Chapter 26: Sentence of death3 min
  27. Chapter 27: The Fructidor Riots7 min
  28. Chapter 28: The unexpected9 min
  29. Chapter 29: Père Lachaise10 min
  30. Chapter 30: Conclusion4 min

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