Baroness Orczy

Name: The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel — XV.
Author: Baroness Orczy

The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel… (1922)

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“The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel — XV.”, published in 1922, is a work by Baroness Orczy. It explores elements such as Percy, Marguerite and lane.

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Baroness Orczy, The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel… (1922)

“ Then came the story of Bertrand Moncrif, snatched half-unconscious out of the apartment of the fair Theresia Cabarrus, whilst Robespierre himself sat not half a dozen yards away, with only the thickness of a wall between him and his arch enemy.
"How the woman must hate you!" Marguerite murmured, with a slight shudder of acute anxiety which she did her best to conceal. "There are things that a woman like the Cabarrus will never forgive. Whether she cares for Bertrand Moncrif or no, her vanity will suffer intensely, and she will never forgive you for taking him out of her clutches." ”

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Baroness Orczy, The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel… (1922)

“ Marguerite followed him as far as the porch, whence the sloping ground, aided by flagged steps here and there, led down to the gate and thence on to the lane.
It was close beside the gate that a human-looking bundle lay huddled, when Sir Percy came upon the scene, even whilst, some fifty yards away at the sharp bend of the lane, a man could be seen walking rapidly away, his pace well-nigh at a run. Sir Percy's instinct was for giving chase, but the huddled-up figure put out a pair of arms and clung to him so desperately, with smothered cries of: "For pity's sake, don't leave me!" ”

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Baroness Orczy, The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel… (1922)

“ No one, save a very few intimates, knew of the little nest wherein Sir Percy Blakeney and his lady hid their happiness on those occasions when the indefatigable Scarlet Pimpernel was only able to spend a few hours in England, and when a journey to their beautiful home in Richmond could not be thought of. The house—it was only a cottage, timbered and creeper-clad—lay about a mile and a half outside Dover, off the main road, perched up high on rising ground over a narrow lane. ”

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Baroness Orczy, The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel… (1922)

“ The stranger looked up at him with a half-shy, half-eager smile.
"You, milor!" she exclaimed. "Oh no! I would be ashamed——"
She paused, and her cheeks became crimson whilst she looked down in utter confusion on her extraordinary attire.
"I had forgotten," she murmured tearfully. "François made me put on these awful clothes when we left Paris."
"Then I must lend you a cloak for to-night," Marguerite interposed with a smile. "But you need not mind your clothes, Madame. On this coast our people are used to seeing unfortunate fugitives landing in every sort of guise. ”

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Baroness Orczy, The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel… (1922)

“ Marguerite nodded.
"But I remember nothing after... after that awful cry... and the splash! I suppose my poor François fainted or fell asleep ... and that he fell into the water. I never saw him again.... And I remember nothing until—until I found myself on board a ship with a lot of rough sailors around me, who seemed very kind.... They brought me ashore and took me to a nice warm place, where some English gentlemen took compassion on me. And ... and ... I have already told you the rest." ”

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Baroness Orczy, The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel… (1922)

“ He saves them and helps them when he can. So they hate him. Naturally."
"Naturally!"
"But I have always admired him," the woman continued, enthusiasm glowing in her dark eyes. "Always; always! Ever since I heard what he had done, and how he saved the Comte de Tournay, and Juliette Marny, and Esther Vincent, and—and countless others. Oh, I knew about them all! For I knew Chauvelin well, and one or two of the men on the Committee of Public Safety quite intimately, and I used to worm out of them all the true facts about the Scarlet Pimpernel. ”

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Baroness Orczy, The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel… (1922)

“ But it was from the members of the League that she learned all there was to know of heroism and selflessness in the perilous adventures through which her husband passed with so lighthearted a gaiety.
"You should see me as an asthmatic reprobate, m'dear," he would say, with his infectious laugh. "And hear that cough! Lud love you, but I am mightily proud of that cough! Poor old Rateau does not do it better himself; and he is genuinely asthmatic." ”

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