tailieunhanh - The Bronze Eagle A Story of the Hundred Days

The perfect calm of an early spring dawn lies over headland and sea--hardly a ripple stirs the blue cheek of the bay. The softness of departing night lies upon the bosom of the Mediterranean like the dew upon the heart of a flower. A silent dawn. Veils of transparent greys and purples and mauves still conceal the distant horizon. Breathless calm rests upon the water and that awed hush which at times descends upon Nature herself when the finger of Destiny marks an eventful hour. But now the grey and the purple veils beyond the headland are lifted one by one; the midst of dawn rises upwards like. | The Bronze Eagle by Emmuska Orczy Baroness 1 CHAPTER PAGE CHAPTER I CHAPTER II CHAPTER III CHAPTER IV CHAPTER V CHAPTER VI CHAPTER VII CHAPTER VIII CHAPTER IX CHAPTER X CHAPTER XI CHAPTER XII The Bronze Eagle by Emmuska Orczy Baroness The Project Gutenberg eBook The Bronze Eagle by Emmuska Orczy Baroness Orczy This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title The Bronze Eagle A Story of the Hundred Days Author Emmuska Orczy Baroness Orczy Release Date July 2 2008 eBook 25955 Language English The Bronze Eagle by Emmuska Orczy Baroness 2 Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE BRONZE EAGLE E-text prepared by Steven desJardins and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team http THE BRONZE EAGLE by BARONESS ORCZY By BARONESS ORCZY THE BRONZE EAGLE A BRIDE OF THE PLAINS THE LAUGHING CAVALIER UNTO CAESAR EL DORADO MEADOWSWEET THE NOBLE ROGUE THE HEART OF A WOMAN PETTICOAT RULE GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY NEW YORK THE BRONZE EAGLE A Story of the Hundred Days by BARONESS ORCZY Author of The Laughing Cavalier The Scarlet Pimpernel Etc. Etc. Illustration New York George H. Doran Company Copyright 1915 by Baroness Orczy Copyright 1915 by George H. Doran Company This novel was published serially under the title of Waterloo CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE 3 CHAPTER PAGE THE LANDING AT JOUAN 9 I. THE GLORIOUS NEWS 14 II. THE OLD REGIME 49 III. THE RETURN OF THE EMPEROR 85 IV. THE EMPRESS MILLIONS 138 V. THE RIVALS 196 VI. THE CRIME 221 VII. THE ASCENT OF THE CAPITOL 236 VIII. THE SOUND OF REVELRY BY NIGHT 261 IX. THE TARPEIAN ROCK 285 X. THE LAST THROW 305 XI. THE LOSING HANDS 338 XII. THE WINNING HAND 370 THE BRONZE EAGLE THE LANDING AT JOUAN The perfect calm of an early spring dawn lies over headland and sea--hardly a ripple .