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THE RED COCKADE
_WORKS BY STANLEY WEYMAN_.
The House of the Wolf.
A Gentleman of France.
Under the Red Robe.
My Lady Rotha.
The New Rector.
The Story of Francis Cludde.
The Man in Black.
From the Memoirs of a Minister of France.
The Red Cockade.
ABERDEEN UNIVERSITY PRESS
[Illustration: "'MESSIEURS,' HE CRIED." _See page_ 21.]
THE RED COCKADE
BY
STANLEY WEYMAN
AUTHOR OF "A GENTLEMAN OF FRANCE," ETC.
LONDON
LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I. The Marquis de St. Alais.
II. The Ordeal.
III. In the Assembly.
IV. L'ami du Peuple.
V. The Deputation.
VI. A Meeting in the Road.
VII. The Alarm.
VIII. Gargouf.
IX. The Tricolour.
X. The Morning after the Storm.
XI. The Two Camps.
XII. The Duel.
XIII. A la Lanterne.
XIV. It Goes Ill.
XV. At Milhau.
XVI. Three in a Carriage.
XVII. Froment of Nimes.
XVIII. A Poor Figure.
XIX. At Nimes
XX. The Search.
XXI. Rivals.
XXII. Noblesse Oblige.
XXIII. The Crisis.
XXIV. The Millennium.
XXV. Beyond the Shadow.
THE RED COCKADE.
CHAPTER I.
THE MARQUIS DE ST. ALAIS.
When we reached the terraced walk, which my father made a little before his death, and which, running under the windows at the rear of the Chateau, separates the house from the new lawn,…