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Title: The Bronze Eagle
A Story of the Hundred Days

Author: Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy

Release Date: July 2, 2008 [eBook #25955]

Language: English

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THE BRONZE EAGLE

by

BARONESS ORCZY

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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

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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
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 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.

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