Room at the Guardian Angel Inn

Stephanie Smee, Countess De Segur

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Australia
• eBook ISBN:
  9781922052018
• Year: 2012

A Room at Guardian Angel Inn opens with two young, lost boys sleeping under a tree next to the side of the road deep in the French countryside. A soldier returning from the Crimean War finds them and brings them to the inn of the title which is run by two generous sisters, one of whom has a bit of cheek in her. Happy to have found a home with a loving family, the boys begin a series of adventures, spurred on by the irascible General Dourakine. A Russian aristocrat and sometime prisoner of war, his stay at the Inn causes mayhem that will delight readers of all ages.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Dedication
• Chapter I: In the Hands of Fate
• Chapter II: The Guardian Angel
• Chapter III: Gathering Information
• Chapter IV: Torchonnet
• Chapter V: Separation
• Chapter VI: A Happy Surprise
• Chapter VII: A Friend Is Rescued
• Chapter VIII: A New Home for Torchonnet
• Chapter IX: The General Puts Moutier’s Life in Order
• Chapter X: And Now to Set a Date
• Chapter XI: A Squabble to Make You Laugh
• Chapter XII: Some Watches and a Dowry
• Chapter XIII: The Trial Magistrate
• Chapter XIV: The General Has Some More Curious Ideas
• Chapter XV: The Departure
• Chapter XVI: Torchonnet Shows His Colours
• Chapter XVII: The General Breaks His Journey
• Chapter XVIII: Taking the Waters
• Chapter XIX: A Dramatic Turn of Events
• Chapter XX: A Father Starts to Worry
• Chapter XXI: Torchonnet Is Exposed
• Chapter XXII: The General Loses His Temper . . . But Then Repents
• Chapter XXIII: The General Makes Full Amends
• Chapter XXIV: Things Get Mysterious
• Chapter XXV: The Wedding Contract
• Chapter XXVI: Some Unexpected Generosity
• Chapter XXVII: The Wedding Feast
• Chapter XXVIII: A Wedding But No Party
• Chapter XXIX: The Last Chapter (but not the end of the story)
• Glossary
• Copyright