I Will Repay (1917 Film)
''I Will Repay'' may refer to: * ''I Will Repay'' (novel), a 1906 novel by Baroness Emma Orczy * ''I Will Repay'' (1917 film), a 1917 American drama film directed by William P. S. Earle * ''I Will Repay'' (film), a 1923 British silent film * An episode of the Canadian TV series ''Forever Knight ''Forever Knight'' is a Canadian television series about Nick Knight, an 800-year-old vampire working as a police detective in modern-day Toronto, Ontario. Wracked with guilt for centuries of killing others, he seeks redemption by working as a ho ...

I Will Repay (novel)
''I Will Repay'' was written by Baroness Emmuska Orczy and originally published in 1906, this is a sequel novel to the ''Scarlet Pimpernel''. The second Pimpernel book written by Orczy, it comes chronologically third in the series, after ''Sir Percy Leads the Band'' and before '' The Elusive Pimpernel.'' A notable error by Orczy comes when the climactic chapter ends at the grave of Abélard and Héloïse at Pere Lachaise cemetery; the cemetery was not founded until 1804, over ten years after the events of the story, and Abélard's and Héloïse's remains not moved there until 1817. Plot summary The story starts in 1784, before the French revolution. Wealthy Paul Déroulède has offended the young Vicomte de Marny by speaking disrespectfully of his latest infatuation, Adèle de Monterchéri. Déroulède had not intended to get into the quarrel but has a tendency to blunder into things -- "''no doubt a part of the inheritance bequeathed to him by his bourgeois ancestry''." ...
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I Will Repay (1917 Film)
''I Will Repay'' may refer to: * ''I Will Repay'' (novel), a 1906 novel by Baroness Emma Orczy * ''I Will Repay'' (1917 film), a 1917 American drama film directed by William P. S. Earle * ''I Will Repay'' (film), a 1923 British silent film * An episode of the Canadian TV series ''Forever Knight ''Forever Knight'' is a Canadian television series about Nick Knight, an 800-year-old vampire working as a police detective in modern-day Toronto, Ontario. Wracked with guilt for centuries of killing others, he seeks redemption by working as a ho ...

William P
William is a male given name of Germanic origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conquest of England in 1066,All Things William"Meaning & Origin of the Name"/ref> and remained so throughout the Middle Ages and into the modern era. It is sometimes abbreviated "Wm." Shortened familiar versions in English include Will, Wills, Willy, Willie, Bill, and Billy. A common Irish form is Liam. Scottish diminutives include Wull, Willie or Wullie (as in Oor Wullie or the play ''Douglas''). Female forms are Willa, Willemina, Wilma and Wilhelmina. Etymology William is related to the given name ''Wilhelm'' (cf. Proto-Germanic ᚹᛁᛚᛃᚨᚺᛖᛚᛗᚨᛉ, ''*Wiljahelmaz'' > German ''Wilhelm'' and Old Norse ᚢᛁᛚᛋᛅᚼᛅᛚᛘᛅᛋ, ''Vilhjálmr''). By regular sound changes, the native, inherited English form of the name should b ...
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I Will Repay (film)
''I Will Repay'' is a 1923 British silent period film directed by Henry Kolker and starring Holmes Herbert, Flora le Breton, and Pedro de Cordoba. It was based on the 1906 novel '' I Will Repay'' by Emma Orczy, which is a sequel to ''The Scarlet Pimpernel'' (part of a large series of such novels). It was released in the United States under the alternative title ''Swords and the Woman''.Progressive Silent Film List: ''I Will Repay''
at silentera.com

Plot

The film takes place in

Paris

, 1793, during the Reign of Terror following the start of the

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