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The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel

by Emmuska Orczy Orczy (1865–1947)

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"The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel" by Baroness Orczy is a collection of short stories published in 1919. This sequel to "The Scarlet Pimpernel" follows Sir Percy Blakeney through eleven adventures set during the French Revolution's Reign of Terror in 1793. Each tale chronicles daring rescues of aristocrats and citizens from the guillotine's shadow, featuring desperate mothers searching for stolen children, trapped families facing massacres, and league members whose loyalty wavers under pressure in Revolutionary Paris.

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  • Historical fiction
  • France · History · Revolution, 1789-1799
  • Adventure stories
  • British · France
  • Blakeney, Percy, Sir (Fictitious character)

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Chapter I

SIR PERCY EXPLAINS

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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Contents

Show all 50 chapters
  1. Chapter I
  2. Chapter II
  3. Chapter III
  4. Chapter IV
  5. Chapter V
  6. Chapter VI
  7. Chapter VII
  8. Chapter VIII
  9. Chapter IX
  10. Chapter X
  11. Chapter XI
  12. Chapter XII
  13. Chapter II
  14. Chapter III
  15. Chapter IV
  16. Chapter II
  17. Chapter III
  18. Chapter IV
  19. Chapter I: "Sh!... sh!... It's the Englishman. I'd know his footstep anywhere — "
  20. Chapter II
  21. Chapter III
  22. Chapter IV
  23. Chapter I
  24. Chapter II
  25. Chapter III
  26. Chapter VII
  27. Chapter VIII
  28. Chapter II
  29. Chapter III
  30. Chapter IV
  31. Chapter I
  32. Chapter II
  33. Chapter III
  34. Chapter IV
  35. Chapter V
  36. Chapter VI
  37. Chapter VII
  38. Chapter I
  39. Chapter II
  40. Chapter III
  41. Chapter IV
  42. Chapter V
  43. Chapter VI
  44. Chapter XI
  45. Chapter II
  46. Chapter III
  47. Chapter IV
  48. Chapter V
  49. Chapter VI
  50. Chapter VII

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This free edition of The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy Orczy comes from Project Gutenberg eBook #5805, released 2004-06-01. It is in the public domain in the United States, so you can read it here in full at no cost, on any phone, tablet or computer. Genre: Historical Novels, Adventure, British Literature.

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