I Will Repay

By: Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

Book Excerpt: ...had insulted Ad le, and who was heaping further insults upon her, by refusing this public acknowledgment of her virtues.De Marny hated D roul de at this moment with the most deadly hatred the heart of man can conceive. The older man's calm, his chivalry, his consideration only enhanced the boy's anger and shame.The hubbub had become general. Everyone seemed carried away with this strange fever of enmity, which was seething in the Vicomte's veins. Most of the young men crowded round De Marny, doing their best to pacify him. The Marquis de Villefranche declared that the matter was getting quite outside the rules.No one took much notice of D roul de. In the remote corners of the saloon a few elderly dandies were laying bets as to the ultimate issue of the quarrel.D roul de, however, was beginning to lose his temper. He had no friends in that room, and therefore there was no sympathetic observer there, to note the gradual darkening...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B08JF2BLMT
• ISBN13: 9798682145683
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 162 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"