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THE ELUSIVE PIMPERNEL
By Baroness Orczy
CONTENTS
Chapter I: Paris: 1793
Chapter II: A Retrospect
Chapter III: Ex-Ambassador Chauvelin
Chapter IV: The Richmond Gala
Chapter V: Sir Percy and His Lady
Chapter VI: For the Poor of Paris
Chapter VII: Premonition
Chapter VIII: The Invitation
Chapter IX: Demoiselle Candeille
Chapter X: Lady Blakeney's Rout
Chapter XI: The Challenge
Chapter XII: Time—Place—Conditions
Chapter XIII: Reflections
Chapter XIV: The Ruling Passion
Chapter XV: Farewell
Chapter XVI: The Passport
Chapter XVII: Boulogne
Chapter XVIII: No. 6
Chapter XIX: The Strength of the Weak
Chapter XX: Triumph
Chapter XXI: Suspense
Chapter XXII: Not Death
Chapter XXIII: The Hostage
Chapter XXIV: Colleagues
Chapter XXV: The Unexpected
Chapter XXVI: The Terms of the Bargain
Chapter XXVII: The Decision
Chapter XXVIII: The Midnight Watch
Chapter XXIX: The National Fete
Chapter XXX: The Procession
Chapter XXXI: Final Dispositions
Chapter XXXII: The Letter
Chapter XXXIII: The English Spy
Chapter XXXIV: The Angelus
Chapter XXXV: Marguerite
Chapter I: Paris: 1793
There was not even a reaction.
On! ever on! in that wild, surging torrent; sowing the wind of anarchy, of terrorism, of lust of blood and hate, and reaping a hurricane of destruction and of horror.
On! ever on! France, with Paris and all her children still rushes blindly, madly on; defies the powerful coalition,—Austria, England, Spain, Prussia, all joined together to stem the flow of carnage,—defies the Universe and defies God!
Paris this September 1793!—or shall we call it Vendemiaire, Year I. of the Republic?—call it what we will! Paris! a city of bloodshed, of humanity in its lowest, most degraded aspect. France herself a gigantic self-devouring monster, her fairest cities destroyed, Lyons razed to the ground, Toulon, Marseilles, masses of blackened ruins, her bravest sons turned to lustful brutes or to abject cowards seeking safety at the cost of any humiliation.
That is thy reward, oh mighty, holy Revolution! apotheosis of