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The Trampling of the Lilies
by Rafael Sabatini
CONTENTS
PART I
THE OLD RULE
I. MONSIEUR THE SECRETARY
II. LORDS OF LIFE AND DEATH
III. THE WORD OF BELLECOUR
IV. THE DISCIPLES OF ROUSSEAU
PART II
THE NEW RULE
V. THE SHEEP TURNED WOLVES
VI. THE CITIZEN COMMISSIONER
VII. LA BOULAYE DISCHARGES A DEBT
VIII. THE INVALIDS AT BOISVERT
IX. THE CAPTIVES
X. THE BAISER LAMOURETTE
XI. THE ESCAPE
XII. THE AWAKENING
XIII. THE ROAD TO LIEGE
XIV. THE COURIER
XV. LA BOULAYE BAITS HIS HOOK
PART III
THE EVERLASTING RULE
XVI. CECILE DESHAIX
XVII. LA BOULAYE'S PROMISE
XVIII. THE INCORRUPTIBLE
XIX. THE THEFT
XX. THE GRATITUDE OF OMBREVAL
XXI. THE ARREST
XXII. THE TRIBUNAL
XXIII. THE CONCIERGERIE
PART I
THE OLD RULE
These are they Who ride on the court gale, control its tides;
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Whose frown abases and whose smile exalts. They shine like any rainbow - and, perchance, Their colours are as transient.
CHAPTER I
MONSIEUR THE SECRETARY
It was spring at Bellecour - the spring of 1789, a short three months before the fall of the Bastille came to give the nobles pause, and make them realise that these new philosophies, which so long they have derided, were by no means the idle vapours they had deemed them.
By the brook, plashing its glittering course through the park o