Contents
One: His Grace of Avon Buys a Soul. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Two: Introducing the Comte de Saint-Vire. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Three: Which Tells of a Debt Unpaid. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Four: His Grace of Avon Becomes Further Acquainted with his Page. . . . 33 Five: His Grace of Avon Visits Versailles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Six: His Grace of Avon Refuses to Sell his Page. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Seven: Satan and Priest at One. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Eight: Hugh Davenant is Amazed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 Nine: Léon and Léonie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Ten: Lady Fanny’s Virtue is Outraged . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 Eleven: Mr Marling’s Heart is Won. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 Twelve: His Grace of Avon’s Ward. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 Thirteen: The Education of Léonie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143 Fourteen: The Appearance on the Scene of Lord Rupert Alastair . . . . . 151 Fifteen: Lord Rupert Makes the Acquaintance of Léonie . . . . . . . . . . . 163 Sixteen: The Coming of the Comte de Saint-Vire. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173 Seventeen: Of a Capture, a Chase, and Confusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179 Eighteen: The Indignation of Mr Manvers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189 Nineteen: Lord Rupert Wins the Second Trick. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201 Twenty: His Grace of Avon Takes Command of the Game . . . . . . . . . 217 Twenty-one: The Discomfiture of the Comte de Saint-Vire. . . . . . . . . 227 Twenty-two: The Arrival of Another Player in the Game. . . . . . . . . . . 241 Twenty-three: Mr Marling Allows Himself to be Persuaded. . . . . . . . . 251 Twenty-four: Hugh Davenant is Agreeably Surprised. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263 Twenty-five: Léonie Curtsies to the Polite World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275 Twenty-six: The Presentation of Léonie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291 Twenty-seven: The Hand of Madame de Verchoureux. . . . . . . . . . . . . 307 Twenty-eight: The Comte de Saint-Vire Discovers an Ace in his Hand. . . . 321 Twenty-nine: The Disappearance of Léonie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329 Thirty: His Grace of Avon Trumps the Comte’s Ace. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341 Thirty-one: His Grace of Avon Wins All. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359 Thirty-two: His Grace of Avon Astonishes Everyone for the Last Time. . . . 369
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