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The Scarlet Pimpernel

The Scarlet Pimpernel

Orczy, Baroness Emmuska

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Mystery & ThrillerClassic FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 1936041782
ISBN13: 9781936041787
Publisher: Simon & Brown
Published: Jan 3 2011
Pages: 268
Weight: 0.87
Height: 0.61 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Book Excerpt: gates.What cart? asked Bibot, roughly.Driven by an old hag. . . . A covered cart . . .There were a dozen . . .An old hag who said her son had the plague?Yes . . .You have not let them go?MORBLEU! said Bibot, whose purple cheeks had suddenly become white with fear.The cart contained the CI-DEVANT Comtesse de Tourney and her two children, all of them traitors and condemned to death. And their driver? muttered Bibot, as a superstitious shudder ran down his spine.SACRE TONNERRE, said the captain, but it is feared that it was that accursed Englishman himself--the Scarlet Pimpernel.CHAPTER IIDOVER: THE FISHERMAN'S RESTIn the kitchen Sally was extremely busy--saucepans and frying-pans were standing in rows on the gigantic hearth, the huge stock-pot stood in a corner, and the jack turned with slow deliberation, and presented alternately to the glowRead More

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