A footman is dressed up as a baronet by two gentlemen who need an heir produced, and the impostor turns out to have more honour than his sponsors — and to be in love with the woman the fraud is aimed at. Sabatini spoke five languages and chose English because, he said, all the best stories are told in it; the lion's skin of the title is Aesop's, and the ass inside it behaves better than the lions.
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Love-at-Arms : Being a Narrative Excerpted from the Chronicles of Urbino, During the Dominion of the High and Mighty Messer Guidobaldo da Montefeltro
The Tavern Knight
The Snare
Captain Blood
Bardelys the Magnificent : Being an Account of the Strange Wooing Pursued by the Sieur Marcel de Saint-Pol, Marquis of Bardelys
Scaramouche : A Romance of the French Revolution
The Trampling of the Lilies
Venezianische Maske: Historischer Roman
Der Marquis von Carabas: Historischer Roman
Scaramouche: Historischer Roman
Mistress Wilding
The Cloister and the Hearth
Tomaso's Fortune and Other Stories
A Cumberland Vendetta
The Heart's Highway : A Romance of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century
The Lady of Blossholme
The Trampling of the Lilies
The Companions of Jehu
Frederick the Great and His Family : A Historical Novel
Elissa : Or, The Doom of Zimbabwe
The Men of the Moss-Hags : Being a History of Adventure Taken from the Papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway
The Elixir
Scaramouche : A Romance of the French Revolution