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Title: The Trampling of the Lilies

Author: Rafael Sabatini

Posting Date: January 8, 2009 [EBook #2783]
Release Date: August, 2001

Language: English

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THE TRAMPLING OF THE LILIES

By Rafael Sabatini

CONTENTS

PART I

THE OLD RULE

CHAPTER

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.

Old Play

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 of
Bellecour, wandered La Boulaye, his long, lean, figure clad with a
sombreness that was out of harmony in that sunlit, vernal l