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What if keeping your promise means betraying the person you love?
In Baroness Orczy’s I Will Repay, Juliette de Marny carries a vow made to her grieving father: avenge her brother’s death in a duel with Paul Déroulède. But when Déroulède offers her protection, hatred gives way to love. The man she promises to destroy becomes someone who trusts her.
Around them, revolutionary Paris turns suspicion into a threat to life. Noble birth invites danger, and an accusation can lead toward the guillotine. Déroulède’s sympathy for people in peril puts him at risk despite his standing. As Juliette struggles with her conscience, Sir Percy Blakeney—the Scarlet Pimpernel—brings courage and deception into this tightening conflict.
What you’ll discover
- A promise turned burden Follow Juliette as loyalty to her father clashes with her own sense of right.
- Love against inherited hatred Discover a romance in which trust makes an old vow harder to bear.
- Kindness under suspicion Enter a Paris where helping someone in danger can put your own life at risk.
- The Scarlet Pimpernel intervenes Meet Sir Percy Blakeney, whose daring rescues offer a different way to understand loyalty.
- Honor put to the test Face the question of whether a promise can ever justify betraying someone who trusts you.
Who will love it
Readers who love swashbuckling rescues, dramatic courtrooms and romance set against the French Revolution, and who enjoy meeting Sir Percy Blakeney and his League in a story built around a vow and its price.
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The key ideas, in the 15-minute summary
- A duel over a careless remark
- A child swears an oath of vengeance
- A girl provokes a mob in Paris
- Guest, rival and Scarlet Pimpernel
- The denunciation and a search
- Anne Mie's trick and Juliette's arrest
- The coal heaver and a cruel plan
- The trial turns on a hidden fact
- What the story is about and how it is told
Who’s who
- Juliette de MarnyA young aristocrat who swore at fourteen to avenge her brother, and who now lives hidden in Paris, torn between her oath and her heart.
- Paul DéroulèdeA rich, generous deputy loved by the Paris poor, who is determined to help the imprisoned Queen and who falls deeply in love with Juliette.
- Anne MieDéroulède's crippled foster cousin, who loves him in silence and distrusts the beautiful guest who has entered the house.
- Sir Percy BlakeneyThe English dandy who secretly leads the League of the Scarlet Pimpernel and wants to save his friends from the guillotine.
- MerlinA filthy, cruel politician who wrote the Law of the Suspect and is eager to bring down Déroulède.
- Foucquier-TinvilleThe Public Prosecutor, a bony and bloodthirsty man who sends prisoners to the guillotine by the dozen and enjoys a clever trap.
- PétronelleJuliette's loyal old nurse, who follows her young mistress everywhere and cannot bear to leave her alone.
- LenoirA giant coal heaver from the provinces who rises in a violent club and proposes a plan to destroy Déroulède.
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Pagaré con la misma moneda
by Baronesa Orczy · 1906
A girl swears at her dead brother's bedside to destroy his killer, then meets the man in Terror-struck Paris.
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I Will Repay is a novel by Baroness Orczy, the author of the Scarlet Pimpernel tales. It is set in Paris in 1783 and again in 1793, at the height of the Terror, and it carries the English hero Sir Percy Blakeney into a story of oath, love and rescue.
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A duel over a careless remark
The story begins in Paris in 1783, in a gaming room where a boy of high birth, the Vicomte de Marny, throws a handful of cards at a man older than himself. The man is Paul Déroulède, a rich outsider who is admitted into noble circles only because of his money. He has made a clumsy remark about a lady the boy adores, and the boy answers with the word coward.
Déroulède knows he has blundered. He would apologize if the code of honor allowed it, and he tells the two soldiers who offer to stand as his seconds that the whole thing is a farce. They hear this as cowardice. They tell him he must fight or leave Paris.
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What is I Will Repay about?
It tells of Juliette de Marny, who swears as a child to avenge her brother's death. Years later, in Revolutionary Paris, she meets his killer, Paul Déroulède, and must choose between her oath and her feelings.
Is the Scarlet Pimpernel in I Will Repay?
Yes. Sir Percy Blakeney, the Scarlet Pimpernel, comes to Paris to help his friend Déroulède. His League of English gentlemen plays a central part in the later chapters of the book.
Is I Will Repay a true story?
No, the main characters are invented. It is set in real events, the Terror of 1793, with real figures such as Merlin, Tinville, Santerre and Robespierre, and real places such as the Conciergerie and Père Lachaise.
The author
Baroness Orczy
1865–1947 · Hungarian-born British novelist
Baroness Orczy (1865–1947) was a Hungarian-born British novelist and playwright. Born Emma Orczy in Tarnaörs, Hungary, she moved to London in 1880. She wrote The Scarlet Pimpernel, published in 1905, and detective stories, including The Old Man in the Corner and Lady Molly of Scotland Yard. She died in London.
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