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Ormond, Volume III

Charles Brockden Brown

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. . . must be ranked—by a generous devotion to liberty. Brunswick and Saxe-Coburg had to contend with whole regiments of women,—regiments they would have formed, if they had been collected into separate bodies.

"I will tell thee a secret. Thou wouldst never have seen Martinette de Beauvais, if Brunswick had deferred one day longer his orders for retreating into Germany."

"How so?"

"She would have died by her own hand."

"What could lead to such an outrage?"

"The love of liberty."

"I cannot comprehend how that love should prompt you to suicide."

"I will tell thee. The plan was formed, and could not miscarry. A woman was to play the part of a banished Royalist, was to repair to the Prussian camp, and to gain admission to the general. This would have easily been granted to a female and an ex-noble. There she was to assassinate the enemy of her country, and to attest her magnanimity by slaughtering hersel. . . Read More

Community Reviews

Read this for class— its introduction called it the finest work of American literature pre-Moby Dick, so I had high hopes. It was convoluted but for the most part engaging after the first 50 pages, and I found attentive reading to be rewarding. I can certainly see its literary importance but it wasn

Pretty good plot and I actually really loved the ending. Charles Brockden Brown is known for plot points that go nowhere/don’t really have much to do with the actual story so this definitely has some. Also, sometimes an explanation or conversation will go on wayyyyy too long and be over explained so

Bad bad Ormond. Good good brown.

the lesbians saved this from being completely terrible

Like everything happens in the last 5 pages with an absolutely absurd twist

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