Baroness Orczy

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

The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel… (1922)

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“The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel — XXIV.”, published in 1922, is a work by Baroness Orczy. It explores elements such as Chauvelin, Chazot and sleuthhounds.

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

“ The staircase received its only light from a small window high up in the roof, the panes of which were coated with grime, so that the well of the stairs, especially past the first-floor landing, was almost in complete gloom. For an instant Chauvelin hesitated. Never a coward physically, he yet had no mind to precipitate himself down a dark staircase when mayhap his enemy was lying in wait for him down below.
Only for an instant however. The very next second had brought forth the positive reflection: "bah! Assassination, and in the dark, are not the Englishman's ways." ”

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

“ So long as we hold her, we have the certainty that sooner or later the English spy will establish communication with her. Catherine Théot is a good jailer, and Captain Boyer upstairs has a number of men under his command—veritable sleuthhounds, whose efficiency I can guarantee and whose eagerness is stimulated by the promise of a magnificent reward. But experience has taught me that that accursed Scarlet Pimpernel is never so dangerous as when we think we hold him. His extraordinary histrionic powers have been our undoing hitherto. No man's eyes are keen enough to pierce his disguises. ”

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

“ Chauvelin said dryly. "We brand horses that are the property of the State; why not a man? Time may come," he added with a vicious snarl, "when the Republic may demand that every local citizen carry—indelibly branded in his flesh and by order of the State—the sign of his own allegiance."
"'Tis not for me to argue, citizen," Chazot rejoined, with a careless shrug of the shoulders. "If you tell me to take citizen Rateau over to the veterinary at the cavalry barracks and have him branded like cattle, why..."
"Not like cattle, citizen," Chauvelin broke in blandly. ”

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

“ In whatever guise the Scarlet Pimpernel presents himself before you—and he will present himself before you, or he is no longer the impudent and reckless adventurer I know him to be!—I feel that you at least will recognize him. ”

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

“ The men themselves were frightened. Unable to understand what had happened, they thought that citizen Chauvelin, whom they all knew by sight, had suddenly lost his reason or was possessed of a devil. For in truth there was nothing about poor old Rateau to frighten a child! ”

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

“ In truth, I have need of every willing hand that will raise itself against mine enemy. I have need of you, citizeness; of that old witch; of Rateau, the coalheaver; of every patriot who will sit and watch this house, to which we have brought the one bait that will lure the goldfish to our net. ”

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

“ Chauvelin resumed more steadily after a while, "is in collusion with a gang of dangerous English spies. One Englishman especially—tall, and a master of histrionics—uses this man as a kind of double. Perhaps you heard...?"
Chazot nodded.
"I know, citizen," he said sagely. "The Fraternal Supper in the Rue St. Honoré. Comrades have told me that no one could tell who was Rateau the coalheaver and who the English milor."
"Exactly!" Chauvelin rejoined dryly, quite firmly now. "Therefore, I want to make sure. The veterinary, you understand? He brands the horses for the cavalry. ”

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

“ Soon they had reached the house, the door where Chauvelin, still breathless but with his habitual official manner that brooked of no argument, gave them hasty instructions.
"The man lying on the ground in there," he commanded. "Seize him and raise him. Then one of you find some cord and bind him securely."
The men flung the double doors wide open. A flood of light illumined the store-room. There lay the huge figure on the floor, no longer motionless, but trying to scramble to his feet, once more torn by a fit of coughing. The man ran up to him ”

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

“ Then, when he is thoroughly and irretrievably drunk, the veterinary will put the brand upon his left forearm ... just on letter.... Why, the drunken reprobate will never feel it!"
"As you command, citizen," Chazot assented with perfect indifference. "I am not responsible. I do as I'm told."
"Like the fine soldier that you are, citizen Chazot!" Chauvelin concluded. ”

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