The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel

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Emma Orczy. The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel

I. SIR PERCY EXPLAINS

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II. A QUESTION OF PASSPORTS

III. TWO GOOD PATRIOTS

IV. THE OLD SCARECROW

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V. A FINE BIT OF WORK

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VI. HOW JEAN PIERRE MET THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL

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VII. OUT OF THE JAWS OF DEATH

VIII. THE TRAITOR

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IX. THE CABARET DE LA LIBERTE

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X "NEEDS MUST—"

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XI. A BATTLE OF WITS

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It was not, Heaven help us all! a very uncommon occurrence these days: a woman almost unsexed by misery, starvation, and the abnormal excitement engendered by daily spectacles of revenge and of cruelty. They were to be met with every day, round every street corner, these harridans, more terrible far than were the men.

This one was still comparatively young, thirty at most; would have been good-looking too, for the features were really delicate, the nose chiselled, the brow straight, the chin round and small. But the mouth! Heavens, what a mouth! Hard and cruel and thin-lipped; and those eyes! sunken and rimmed with purple; eyes that told tales of sorrow and, yes! of degradation. The crowd stood round her, sullen and apathetic; poor, miserable wretches like herself, staring at her antics with lack-lustre eyes and an ever-recurrent contemptuous shrug of the shoulders.

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The papers appeared to be in order, and proclaimed the bearer to be Paul Mole, a native of Besancon, a carpenter by trade. The identity book had recently been signed by Jean Paul Marat, the man's latest employer, and been counter-signed by the Commissary of the section.

The man in the tricolour scarf turned with some acerbity on the crowd who was still pressing round the prisoner.

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