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A BRIDE OF THE PLAINS

BARONESS ORCZY

By BARONESS ORCZY

A Bride of the Plains
The Laughing Cavalier
"Unto Caesar"
El Dorado
Meadowsweet
The Noble Rogue
The Heart of a Woman
Petticoat Rule

GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
NEW YORK

A BRIDE OF THE PLAINS

BY BARONESS ORCZY

Author of "The Laughing Cavalier," "The ScarletPimpernel," "El Dorado," "Meadowsweet," Etc., Etc.

NEW YORK
GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY

Copyright, 1915,
By George H. Doran Company

To the Memory of
LOUIS KOSSUTH

What would you have said now—O patriot and selfless hero—had you livedto see the country which you loved so well, for whose liberty andnational dignity you fought with such unswerving devotion—what wouldyou say, could you see her now—tied to Austria's chariot wheel, thecatspaw and the tool of that Teutonic race which you abhorred? Thank Godyou were spared the sight which surely would have broken your heart! Younever lived to see your country free. Alas! no man for many generationsto come will see that now. The Magyar peasant lad—upon the vast,mysterious plains of his native soil—will alone continue to dream ofnational liberty, of religious and political freedom, and vaguely hopethat some day another Louis Kossuth will arise again and restore to himand to his race that sense of dignity, of justice and of right which theTeuton has striven for centuries to crush.

Emmuska Orczy.

Snowfield,

Bearsted,

Kent.

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