I will Repay

by Baroness Orczy

Published 30 July 2001
It's 1783 and wealthy Paul Deroulede has offended the young Vicomte de Marny by speaking disrespectfully of his latest infatuation, Adele de Montercheri. Deroulede had not intended to get into the quarrel but had a tendency to blunder into things-- "no doubt a part of the inheritance bequeathed to...Read more