These Old Shades
Subtitle: Alastair-Audley #1
By: Georgette Heyer ; with a foreword by Stephanie Laurens
Series: Alastair-Audley (1)
Publisher: HQN
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Don Mills, Ont
Language: eng
Number of pages: 334
ISBN-13: 9780373773404
Copyright date: 1926
Subjects: Fiction; Aristocracy (Social class); History
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Stephanie Laurens; title: His Grace of Avon buys a soul; title: Introducing the Comte de Saint-Vire; title: Which tells of a debt unpaid; title: His Grace of Avon becomes further acquainted with his page; title: His Grace of Avon visits Versailles; title: His Grace of Avon refuses to sell his page; title: Satan and priest at one; title: Hugh Davenant is amazed; title: Leon and Leonie; title: Lady Fanny's virtue is outraged; title: Mr. Marling's heart is won; title: His Grace of Avon's ward; title: The education of Leonie; title: The appearance of the scene of Lord Rupert Alastair; title: Lord Rupert makes the acquaintance of Leonie; title: The coming of the Comte de Saint-Vire; title: Of a capture, a chase, and confusion; title: The indignation of Mr. Manvers; title: Lord Rupert wins the second trick; title: His Grace of Avon takes command of the game; title: The discomfiture of the Comte de Saint-Vire; title: The arrival of another player in the game; title: Mr. Marling allows himself to be persuaded; title: Hugh Davenant is agreeably surprised; title: Leonie curtsies to the polite world; title: The presentation of Leonie; title: The hand of Madame de Verchoureux; title: The Comte de Saint-Vire discovers an ace in his hand; title: The disappearance of Leonie; title: His Grace of Avon trumps the Comte's ace; title: His Grace of Avon wins all; title: His Grace of Avon astonishes everyone for the last time.