Benito Juarez, president of the Mexican Republic.
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
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“Jacqueline” “She was the spirit of the enigma, the very personification of the Napoleonic sphinx” | [Frontispiece] |
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| “Murguía” “He had evidently passed through salty spray, had braved the deep, this shrinking old man in frayed black” | [16] |
| “Rodrigo Galán” “The fierce stranger, however, seemed undecided. His brow furrowed, and for the moment he only stared” | [18] |
| “John Dinwiddie Driscoll, the
Missourian” “His cheeks were smooth, but they were tight and hard and brown from the weathering of sun and blizzard” | [38] |
| “Colonel Dupin” “The Tiger of the Tropics ... the chief of Contra Guerrillas” | [94] |
| The Emperor Maximilian | [134] |
| “María de la Luz” “The tapestry behind them parted and fell” | [146] |
| “Berthe” “... brought down the ponderous knocker so terrifically that it abashed her, for all her present agitation” | [220] |
PART FIRST
THE THORN IN THE LAND OF ROSES
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“Array you, lordyngs, one and all, For here begins no peace.” |
| – The Ballad of the Battle of Otterburn |
3CHAPTER I
A Wilful Maid Arrives from France
“I’ll tell thee, it is the stubbornest young fellow of France, full of ambition.”