A SON
OF THE PEOPLE
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A SON
OF THE PEOPLE
By Baroness Orczy
Hodder and Stoughton
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Bound in Red Cloth.
Uniform with this Volume.
THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL
SERIES.
By Baroness Orczy
THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL
I WILL REPAY
THE EMPEROR’S CANDLESTICKS
BY THE GOD’S BELOVED
BEAU BROCADE
A SON OF THE PEOPLE
THE TANGLED SKEIN
THE OLD MAN IN THE CORNER
THE NEST of the SPARROWHAWK
HODDER AND STOUGHTON
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CONTENTS
CHAP. PAGE I. a village in the lowlands1 II. a popular favourite10 III. pride of race15 IV. the moneylender22 V. an old miser34 VI. the tenant of kisfalu49 VII. principal and interest55 VIII. first arrivals66 IX. beautiful ilonka75 X. a love idyll85 XI. the gathering storm94 XII. lord and peasant107 XIII. vengeance125 XIV. calamity134 XV. reparation150
XVI. easter morn 2 XVII. the ruined lord 179 XVIII. rosenstein, the jew 191 XIX. a son of the people 206 XX. the answer 220 XXI. the noble lady 224 XXII. a dream 231 XXIII. how the news was received 234 XXIV. the marriage 248 XXV. fata morgana 260 XXVI. the peasant’s wife 263 XXVII. the irreparable 270
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