# A Son of the People

In this romance of the Hungarian plains the Baroness Orczy writes with ease and grace, and her peasant characters are no mere pasteboard figures. They are charged with life. Most important of them is one Andras, "a son of the soil," the son of a small tenant farmer in the domain of the "big man" of the neighbourhood. The "big man" falls into financial difficulties, and Andras, aided by cash left to him by a miser father, comes to the rescue, claiming as his reward the hand of the "big man's" daughter. … —from the review in the Bookman March 1906 [Full review on the Talk page]
A SON
OF THE PEOPLE
EL DORADO
An adventure of the Scarlet
Pimpernel
By BARONESS ORCZY
Price 6/-
A SON OF THE PEOPLE
By Baroness Orczy
Hodder and Stoughton
London New York Toronto
Bound in Red Cloth. Uniform with this Volume.
THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL SERIES. By Baroness Orczy
THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL
I WILL REPAY
THE EMPEROR’S CANDLESTICKS
BY THE GOD’S BELOVED
BEAU BROCADE
A SON OF THE PEOPLE
THE TANGLED SKEIN
THE OLD MAN IN THE CORNER
THE NEST of the SPARROWHAWK
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### CONTENTS

PART I
* CHAP.PAGE
* I. a village in the lowlands ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................1
* II. a popular favourite ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................10
* III. pride of race ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................15
* IV. the moneylender ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................22
* V. an old miser ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................34
* VI. the tenant of kisfalu ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................49
* VII. principal and interest ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................55
* VIII. first arrivals ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................66
* IX. beautiful ilonka ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................75
* X. a love idyll ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................85
* XI. the gathering storm ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................94
* XII. lord and peasant ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................107
* XIII. vengeance ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................125
* XIV. calamity ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................134
* XV. reparation ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................150
PART II
* XVI. easter morn 2
* XVII. the ruined lord 179
* XVIII. rosenstein, the jew 191
* XIX. a son of the people 206
* XX. the answer 220
* XXI. the noble lady 224
* XXII. a dream 231
* XXIII. how the news was received 234
* XXIV. the marriage 248
* XXV. fata morgana 260
* XXVI. the peasant’s wife 263
* XXVII. the irreparable 270
PART III
* XXVIII. love lies bleeding 287
* XXIX. honour thy father and thy mother 300
* XXX. the grave of love 315
* XXXI. love triumphant 324
* epilogue 338
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