Books with title I Will Repay

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I Will Repay by Baroness Emma Orczy, 1906. Baroness Emma Orczy (1865 - 1947), was a Hungarian-born British novelist, playwright, and artist of noble origin. She is most known for her series of novels featuring the Scarlet Pimpernel, the alter ego of Sir Percy Blakeney, a wealthy English fop who transforms into a formidable swordsman and a quick-thinking escape artist, representing the original "hero with a secret identity". Emma’s parents left their estate for Budapest in 1868, fearful of the threat of a peasant revolution. They lived in Budapest, Brussels, and Paris, where Emma studied music unsuccessfully. Finally, in 1880, the family moved to London, England where Orczy attended West London School of Art and then Heatherley’s School of Fine Art.

It would have been very difficult to say why Citizen Déroulède was quite so popular as he was. Still more difficult would it have been to state the reason why he remained immune from the prosecutions, which were being conducted at the rate of several scores a day, now against the moderate Gironde, anon against the fanatic Mountain, until the whole of France was transformed into one gigantic prison, that daily fed the guillotine.But Déroulède remained unscathed. Even Merlin’s law of the suspect had so far failed to touch him. And when, last July, the murder of Marat brought an entire holocaust of victims to the guillotine— from Adam Lux, who would have put up a statue in honour of Charlotte Corday, with the inscription: “Greater than Brutus”, to Charlier, who would have had her publicly tortured and burned at the stake for her crime— Déroulède alone said nothing, and was allowed to remain silent.The most seething time of that seething revolution. No one knew in the morning if his head would still be on his own shoulders in the evening, or if it would be held up by Citizen Samson the headsman, for the sansculottes of Paris to see.Yet Déroulède was allowed to go his own way. Marat once said of him: “Il n’est pas dangereux.” The phrase had been taken up. Within the precincts of the National Convention, Marat was still looked upon as the great protagonist of Liberty, a martyr to his own convictions carried to the extreme, to squalor and dirt, to the downward levelling of man to what is the lowest type in humanity. And his sayings were still treasured up: even the Girondins did not dare to attack his memory. Dead Marat was more powerful than his living presentment had been.

Very Good/Very Good minus. Hardcover. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked embossed red cloth boards, slight foxing to slightly dusty page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped with small mark to front, slightly sunned spine and nicks and small tear to lower edge. Now protected in fully-removable transparent sleeve. 256pp. Scarlet Pimpernel Series. H&S Yellow Jacket.

Baroness Emma Orczy (full name: Emma ("Emmuska") Magdolna Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála Orczy de Orczi) ( September 23, 1865 – November 12, 1947) was a British novelist, playwright and artist of Hungarian noble origin. She was most notable for her series of novels featuring the Scarlet Pimpernel. Some of her paintings were exhibited at the Royal Academy in London.

It’s 1783 and wealthy Paul Déroulède has offended the young Vicomte de Marny by speaking disrepctfully of his latest infatuation, Adèle de Monterchéri. Déroulède had not intended to get into the quarrel but has a tendency to blunder into things – “no doubt a part of the inheritance bequeathed to him by his bourgeois ancestry.” Incensed at the slur on Adèle, who he sees as a paragon of virtue, the Vicomte challenges Déroulède to a duel, a fight which Déroulède does not want – for he knows and respects the boy’s father, the Duc de Marny.

It’s 1783 and wealthy Paul Déroulède has offended the young Vicomte de Marny by speaking disrepctfully of his latest infatuation, Adèle de Monterchéri. Déroulède had not intended to get into the quarrel but has a tendency to blunder into things – “no doubt a part of the inheritance bequeathed to him by his bourgeois ancestry.” Incensed at the slur on Adèle, who he sees as a paragon of virtue, the Vicomte challenges Déroulède to a duel, a fight which Déroulède does not want – for he knows and respects the boy’s father, the Duc de Marny.

I Will Repay, a sequel to Orczy's novel The Scarlet Pimpernel, is a delightful romp through fields of adventure, danger, betrayal, daring rescue, and true love. Will our heroes and heroines find justice? Or will they end up with an appointment to see Madam Guillotine? Baroness Orczy's skillful storytelling weaves threads of misunderstanding, misinterpretation, and erroneous conclusion with those of attraction, trust, adoration, and longing, to produce a tapestry replete with the darkness of betrayal and the brightness of redemption. Newly designed and typeset in a modern 6-by-9-inch format by Waking Lion Press.

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