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Scarlett Pimpernel
Title: Scarlett Pimpernel
Category: Literature / Novels
Details: Words: 2801 | Pages: 11.9 (approximately 235 words/page)
Scarlett Pimpernel
The Scarlet Pimpernel Baroness Emmuska Orczy
PARIS: SEPTEMBER, 1792
chapter 1
A surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate. The hour, some little time before sunset, and the place, the West Barricade, at the very spot where, a decade later, a proud tyrant raised an undying monument to the nation's glory and his own vanity. During the …showed first 85 words of 2801 total…
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…showed last 85 words of 2801 total…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."
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