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Author : Baroness Emmuska Orczy Orczy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)
Download or read book The First Sir Percy written by Baroness Emmuska Orczy Orczy and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Baroness Orczy
Publisher : House of Stratus
ISBN 13 : 0755116593
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)
Download or read book The First Sir Percy written by Baroness Orczy and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2011-12-11 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story starts in 1624 in the Netherlands and concerns the Scarlet Pimpernel's ancestor, Diogenes, aka the first Sir Percy Blakeney. Diogenes and his friends Socrates and Pythagoras swear allegiance to the royalist cause. Their undivided loyalty results in many adventures - and more than one foe.
Author : Baroness Orczy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781987426595
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)
Download or read book The First Sir Percy written by Baroness Orczy and published by . This book was released on 2018-03-31 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is March 1624 in Holland. Two months earlier, a mercenary/adventurer who calls himself "Diogenes" foiled the plot on the life of the Stadtholder. Now, he has finally met his real father, an English nobleman, and realized his true identity as Sir Percy Blake of Blakeney, heir to a large estate in Sussex. He is also getting married to Gilda Beresteyn, the woman he was paid to kidnap back in January.Blake has invited his friends from his mercenary days, "Socrates" and "Pythagoras," to the wedding. However, while traveling there, Pythagoras runs afoul of Lord Stoutenburg (now a fugitive for his plot to kill the Stadtholder). Stoutenburg recognizes Pythagoras, gets him drunk, and has his servant Jan shoot him in the back and leave him for dead.On the day of the wedding, Diogenes is concerned when Pythagoras does not show up. Socrates and a group of men go out to look for him. Just as the celebration is ending, Socrates returns with the wounded Pythagoras. After being given medical treatment, Pythagoras reveals that Stoutenburg has a new plan to assassinate the Stadtholder. Namely, the Archduchess Isabella has troops crossing the IJssel and coming up from Kleve. They plan to seize the cities of Arnhem and Nijmegen, then march across the Veluwe and confront the Stadtholder with a vast army. On top of this, Stoutenburg is plotting to poison the Stadtholder using chemicals he has been taught to manufacture by Francis Borgia.The Stadtholder asks Diogenes to fight at his side. Diogenes is torn between his feelings for his new bride and the call of honour and duty. Gilda settles the matter when she brings him his sword, telling him he must leave for Vorden within the hour.Gilda's brother, Nicholaes, travels with Diogenes as far as Barneveld but on returning home, he tries to convince Gilda that her husband is a traitor and is in league with the Archduchess.In Vorden, Diogenes delivers the Stadtholder's orders to Messire Marquet and his troops. En route to Wageningen, he is suddenly chased and shot at by men on horses. Plunging into the river Ijseel to evade his attackers, his horse is shot through the neck and the waters sweep over his head.Four days pass and there is no news from Diogenes. The archduchess's troops have crossed the IJssel and overrun Gelderland. Nicholaes has been sent to Amersfoot to tell his father of the Stadtholder's coming and that they must evacuate the town. Fugatives from Ede have reached the Stadtholder's camp at Utrecht and it soon becomes obvious that Diogenes has failed to deliver orders to Messire Marquet and Mynheer De Keysere.Gilda is worried, but refuses to believe her husband can have failed. She watches for him from the window and eventually spots him riding into the city. On hearing the news, Nicholaes exclaims that Diogenes' return is impossible but won't say any more when questioned. He then tries to get the Stadtholder away before he can talk to Diogenes, insisting that Diogenes is in league with the Archduchess. When Diogenes, weary and dazed, arrives, Nicholaes attacks him with cries of "Assassin!" but Gilda stops the fight.Diogenes, Pythagora, and Socrates follow Nicholaes and manage to frustrate his plans to deliver the Stadtholder into the hands of the Archduchess. However, before the traitorous Nicholaes meets up with Lord Stoutenburg, he shoots at Diogenes with a poisoned bullet and the resultant smoke causes him to go blind.Nicolaes and Stoutenburg return to Amersfoort with 4000 mercenaries and demand the surrender of the city. Stoutenburg threatens to kill everyone there unless Gilda agrees to marry him. A commotion outside the house reveals a blind Diogenes is back and is entertaining the troops.Stoutenburg is determined to hang his nemesis Diogenes, and thinks that Gilda will prefer a strong masterful man to a weak helpless one.
Author : Emmuska Orczy
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)
Download or read book The First Sir Percy written by Emmuska Orczy and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The First Sir Percy is an adventure story by Baroness Orczy showcasing Sir Percy Blakeney, foregoer of Orczy's character The Scarlet Pimpernel. Excerpt: "She felt a little strange, a little humiliated perhaps, standing here alone, as if abandoned by the very man who but a moment ago had seemed ready to defy every convention for her sake. Just now she had been the centre of attraction, the pivot round which revolved excitement, curiosity, interest. Even the Stadtholder had, for the space of those few minutes, forgotten his cares and his responsibilities in order to think of her and to plead with her father for her freedom and her happiness. Now she was all alone, seemed so for the moment, while her father and Mynheer van den Poele and the older men crowded around his Highness, and every one had their eyes fixed on the curious spectacle below."
Author : Baroness Orczy
Publisher : Standard Ebooks
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.6D/5 ( download)
Download or read book The First Sir Percy written by Baroness Orczy and published by Standard Ebooks. This book was released on 2021-01-08T17:32:54Z with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set a mere three months after The Laughing Cavalier, the titular first Sir Percy is set to wed his love Gilda in a double wedding with her brother and his intended. The attendees include many of the rich and famous, including the Stadtholder himself. But immediately after the ceremony, bad news arrives, and Percy, A.K.A. Diogenes, is tasked with rushing to get messages to two of the Stadtholder’s divisions that are in peril from the enemy. But there are unknown enemies about as well as known ones, and Diogenes will soon face the darkest hours and direst threats of his young life. In the seventh published novel in the series, Baroness Orczy returns again to early seventeenth-century Netherlands, but with a darker tone than The Laughing Cavalier. This time she turns her focus to the antagonist and his henchmen, and once again puts her hero in an untenable position. This time the nation’s life is at stake, as well as his own. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.
Author : Baroness Emmuska Orczy Orczy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)
Download or read book The First Sir Percy written by Baroness Emmuska Orczy Orczy and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Baroness Emmuska Orczy Orczy
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ISBN 13 : 9783965370838
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)
Download or read book The First Sir Percy written by Baroness Emmuska Orczy Orczy and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Emmuska Orczy
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)
Download or read book The First Sir Percy written by Emmuska Orczy and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Baroness Emmuska Orczy
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781725188082
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)
Download or read book The First Sir Percy written by Baroness Emmuska Orczy and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-08-15 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The First Sir Percy: Large print by Baroness Emmuska Orczy Set in Holland in 1624, The First Sir Percy is another adventure featuring Sir Percy Blake, a foreign adventurer and ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel who goes by the name Diogenes. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.
Author : Emmuska Orczy Orczy (Baroness)
Publisher : Palala Press
ISBN 13 : 9781346645728
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)
Download or read book The First Sir Percy written by Emmuska Orczy Orczy (Baroness) and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2015-11-16 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
