CHAPTER I. CRIMSON FAVOURS.
M. de Tavannes smiled. Mademoiselle averted
her eyes, and shivered; as if the air, even of that
close summer night, entering by the door at her elbow,
chilled her.&...
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Stanley J. Weyman (pronounced Wyman), best known as a writer of historical romances, enjoyed his greatest popularity during the decades before and after the turn of the century. Known as "the English ...
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Historical fiction of the late nineteenth century was characteristically romance of the cloak-and-sword school, and perhaps no author's work typified this form as well as the stories and novels of Sta...
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Count Hannibal
Stanley J. Weyman