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THE LAUGHING CAVALIER
Author : Baroness Orczy
For indeed you must admit that had the snow come down again or the weather been colder, or wetter, the
three philosophers would mayhap all have felt that priceless thirst and desire for comfort which the interior of
a well-administered tavern doth so marvelously assuage. And had it been any other day of the year or any
other hour of that same day of they year 1623, those three philosophers would never have thought of wiling
away the penultimate hour of the dying year by hanging round the Grootemarkt in order to see the respectable
mynheer burghers and the mevrouws their wives...
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