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Title: A Bride of the Plains

Author: Baroness Emmuska Orczy

Release Date: June 12, 2009 [eBook #29106]

Language: English

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A BRIDE OF THE PLAINS

by

BARONESS ORCZY

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By BARONESS ORCZY

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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A BRIDE OF THE PLAINS

by

BARONESS ORCZY

Author of "The Laughing Cavalier," "The Scarlet
Pimpernel," "El Dorado," "Meadowsweet," Etc., Etc.

New York
George H. Doran Company

Copyright, 1915,
by George H. Doran Company

TO THE MEMORY OF
LOUIS KOSSUTH

What would you have said now--O patriot and selfless hero--had you lived
to see the country which you loved so well, for whose liberty and
national dignity you fought with such unswerving devotion--what would
you say, could you see her now--tied to Austria's chariot wheel, the
catspaw and the tool of that Teutonic race which you abhorred? Thank God
you were spared the sight which surely would have broken your heart! You
never lived to see your country free. Alas! no man for many generations
to come will see that now. The Magyar peasant lad--upon the vast,
mysterious plains of his native soil--will alone continue to dream of
national liberty, of religious and political freedom, and vaguely hope
that some day another Louis Kossuth will arise again and restore to him
and to his race that sense of dignity, of justice and of right which the
Teuton has striven for centuries to crush.

EMMUSKA ORCZY.

Snowfield,
Bearsted,
Kent.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. "GOD BLESS THEM ALL! THEY ARE GOOD LADS." 9
II. "MONEY WON'T BUY EVER