The First Sir Percy

Description

The story starts in 1624 in the Netherlands and concerns the Scarlet Pimpernel’s ancestor, Diogenes, aka the first Sir Percy Blakeney. Diogenes and his friends Socrates and Pythagoras swear allegiance to the royalist cause. Their undivided loyalty results in many adventures — and more than one foe.

First Sentence

A MOONLESS night upon the sandy waste-the sky a canopy of stars, twinkling with super-radiance through the frosty atmosphere ; the gently undulating ground like a billowy sea of silence and desolation, with scarce a stain upon the smooth surface of the snow ; the mantle of night enveloping every landmark upon the horizon beyond the hills in folds of deep, dark indigo, levelling every chance hillock and clump of rough shrub or grass, obliterating road and wayside ditch, which in the broad light of day would have marred the perfect evenness of the wintry pall.

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Other Editions

• The First Sir Percy: An Adventure of the Laughing CavalierLibrary BindingBuccaneer Books2000-03-01
• The first Sir Percy.Hodder & Stoughton1920-01-01
• The first Sir PercyGeorge H. Doran company1921-01-01
• The First Sir PercyPaperbackHouse of Stratus2002-09-01
• First Sir PercyKessinger Publishing, LLC2004-01-01
• First Sir PercyDigireads.com Publishing2004-01-01