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The Scarlet Pimpernel

Orczy, Emmuska Baroness

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The Scarlet Pimpernel

Anne Perry, the Edgar Award–winning author of more than thirty novels, is best known for her two Victorian mystery series. Her recent books include Death of a Stranger, The Whitechapel Conspiracy, and Funeral in Blue. She lives in Scotland.

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Title of ebook: The Scarlet Pimpernel
ISBN: 9780553904024
Publisher: Bantam Books
Internet download file size: 1116 kb
Released online for download: 07-31-2007
Author of eBook: Orczy, Emmuska Baroness

The Scarlet Pimpernel

Chapter I

Paris: September 1792

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 greater part of the day the guillotine had been kept busy at its ghastly work: all that France had boasted of in the past centuries, of ancient names, and blue blood, had paid toll to her desire for liberty and for fraternity. The carnage had only ceased at this late hour of the day because there were other more interesting sights for the people to witness, a little while ... read full excerpt from The Scarlet Pimpernel ebook