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| I. PARIS: SEPTEMBER, 1792 |
| II. DOVER: “THE FISHERMAN’S REST” |
| III. THE REFUGEES |
| IV. THE LEAGUE OF THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL |
| V. MARGUERITE |
| VI. AN EXQUISITE OF ’92 |
| VII. THE SECRET ORCHARD |
| VIII. THE ACCREDITED AGENT |
| IX. THE OUTRAGE |
| X. IN THE OPERA BOX |
| XI. LORD GRENVILLE’S BALL |
| XII. THE SCRAP OF PAPER |
| XIII. EITHER—OR? |
| XIV. ONE O’CLOCK PRECISELY! |
| XV. DOUBT |
| XVI. RICHMOND |
| XVII. FAREWELL |
| XVIII. THE MYSTERIOUS DEVICE |
| XIX. THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL |
| XX. THE FRIEND |
| XXI. SUSPENSE |
| XXII. CALAIS |
| XXIII. HOPE |
| XXIV. THE DEATH-TRAP |
| XXV. THE EAGLE AND THE FOX |
| XXVI. THE JELW |
| XXVII. ON THE TRACK |
| XXVIII. THE PÈRE BLANCHARD’S HUT |
| XXIX. TRAPPED |
| XXX. THE SCHOONER |
| XXXI. THE ESCAPE |
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 before the final closing of the barricades for the night.
And so the crowd rushed away from the Place de la Grève and made for the various barricades in order to watch this interesting and amusing sight.
It was to be seen every day, for those aristos were such fools! They were traitors to the people, of course, all of them, men, women, and children.
Who happened to be descendants of the great men who since the Crusades had made the glory of France: her old noblesse.
Their ancestors had oppressed the people, had crushed them under the scarlet heels of their dainty buckled shoes, and now the people had become the rulers of France and crushed their former masters.
Not beneath their heel, for they went shoeless mostly in these days—but beneath a more effectual weight, the knife of the guillotine.
Summary
Bibot was sitting on an overturned and empty cask close by the gate of the barricade; a small detachment of citizen soldiers was under his command.
The work had been very hot lately. Those cursed aristos were becoming terrified and tried their hardest to slip out of Paris: men, women, and children, whose ancestors, even in remote ages, had served those traitorous Bourbons, were all traitors themselves and right food for the guillotine.
Every day Bibot had had the satisfaction of unmasking some fugitive royalists and sending them back to be tried by the Committee of Public Safety, presided over by that good patriot, Citoyen Foucquier-Linville.
Robespierre and Danton both had commended Bibot for his zeal and Bibot was proud of the fact that he on his own initiative had sent at least fifty aristos to the guillotine.
| Author | Baroness Orczy |
| Language | English |
| No. of Pages | 332 |
| PDF Size | 120.5 MB |
| Category | Novel |
| Source/ Credits | archive.org |
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