id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt osu.32435017952672 Vance Louis Joseph Terence O'Rourke : gentleman adventurer / by Louis Joseph Vance .. 1905 .txt text/plain 87879 6670 85 I am exhibiting my skill to Monsieur le Colonel O'Rourke; you will observe he holds a card in his hand." The young man turned to O'Rourke, offering his hand with O'Rourke turned to the motionless line; not one man had "Monsieur," he said humbly, avoiding O'Rourke's eye, his head slightly, in lordly salutation of O'Rourke, acknowledging the one man whom he had failed to look down. There fell a moment's silence; Monsieur le Prince was anything but pleased; the look he gave the Irishman was evidence "I mean this," said O'Rourke slowly, his eyes shining: I mean that 'tis the O'Rourke who holds the balance of power, for the men are serving me first, yourself next, O'Rourke, or Chambret, or even Monsieur le Prince — Leopold was invertebrate, vacillating, fearful alike of stepping "Madame," asserted O'Rourke, turning to the woman, Monsieur le Prince's back to O'Rourke's again. O'Rourke looked into his eyes, ./cache/osu.32435017952672.pdf ./txt/osu.32435017952672.txt