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Castles in the Air

by Orczy Emmuska Orczy Baroness

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Author: Orczy Emmuska Orczy Baroness

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Baroness Orczy (1865-1947) is known as a novelist, playwright and artist who was born in Hungary and after a peasant revolution moved to Great Britain with her parents. Her most well-known character that appear in a series of her books is Scarlett Pimpernel. Orcxy's husband Montague MaClean Barstow who was a playwriter and a novelist as well, wrote a story about an English aristocrat Sir Percy Blakeney who falls in love with a charming French woman Scarlett Pimpernel and rescues her from the French revolution. Baroness Orczy got interested in this character and created the continuation of their adventures. All of her books are written with light words and in a light style. Castles in the Air is a chain of short stories that were published in 1921. The story focuses on the adventures of a police agent in Paris in Napoleonic epoch. Every word will make you smile and even burst with laughter so it is a good idea for those readers who want to spend a couple of evening in a great mood.

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...intoher story. "Monsieur, " she said with that pretty, determined air which became herso well, "my name is Estelle Bachelier. I am an orphan, an heiress, and have need of help and advice. I did not know to whom to apply. Until three months ago I was poor and had to earn my living by workingin a milliner's shop in the Rue St. Honoré. The concierge in the housewhere I used to lodge is my only friend, but she cannot help me forreasons which will presently be made clear to you. She told me, however, that she had a nephew named Theodore, who was clerk to M. Ratichon, advocate and confidential agent. She gave me your address;and as I knew no one else I determined to come and consult you. "I flatter myself, that though my countenance is exceptionally mobile, I possess marvellous powers for keeping it impassive when necessityarises. In this instance, at mention of Theodore's name, I showedneither surprise nor indignation. Yet you will readily understand thatI felt both. Here was that man, once...