El Dorado Further Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel

by Orczy, Baroness

• ISBN13: 9780486440262
• ISBN10: 0486440265
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-03-24
• Publisher: Dover Publications

Summary

The elusive Pimpernel returns for another swashbuckling adventure in El Dorado. The still-raging French Revolution continues to claim lives, and the shadow of the guillotine draws ever nearer to the the young Dauphin, son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. No one dares to attempt to liberate the little prince-no one, that is, but the mysterious Sir Percy Blakeney, also known as the Scarlet Pimpernel. Sir Percy takes on one of Robespierre's agents, the scheming Citizen Chauvelin, in a suspenseful blend of action and political intrigue, recounted with captivating period detail. Unabridged republication of the classic 1913 edition.

Table of Contents

PART I
I In the Théâtre National	1	(7)
II Widely Divergent Aims	8	(11)
III The Demon Chance	19	(4)
IV Mademoiselle Lange	23	(9)
V The Temple Prison	32	(8)
VI The Committee's Agent	40	(6)
VII The Most Precious Life in Europe	46	(8)
VIII Arcades Ambo	54	(6)
IX What Love Can Do	60	(12)
X Shadows	72	(7)
XI The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel	79	(13)
XII What Love Is	92	(8)
XIII Then Everything Was Dark	100	(6)
XIV The Chief	106	(6)
XV The Gate of La Villette	112	(4)
XVI The Weary Search	116	(13)
XVII Chauvelin	129	(5)
XVIII The Removal	134	(5)
XIX It Is About the Dauphin	139	(6)
XX The Certificate of Safety	145	(3)
XXI Back to Paris	148	(12)
XXII Of That There Could Be No Question	160	(11)
XXIII The Overwhelming Odds	171	(3)
PART II
XXIV The News	174	(9)
XXV Paris Once More	183	(6)
XXVI The Bitterest Foe	189	(10)
XXVII In the Conciergerie	199	(6)
XXVIII The Caged Lion	205	(5)
XXIX For the Sake of That Helpless Innocent	210	(12)
XXX Afterwards	222	(6)
XXXI An Interlude	228	(3)
XXXII Sisters	231	(8)
XXVIII Little Mother	239	(4)
XXXIV The Letter	243	(4)
PART III
XXXV The Last Phase	247	(12)
XXXVI Submission	259	(7)
XXXVII Chauvelin's Advice	266	(4)
XXXVIII Capitulation	270	(9)
XXXIX Kill Him!	279	(6)
XL God Help Us All	285	(2)
XLI When Hope Was Dead	287	(7)
XLII The Guard-house of the Rue Ste. Anne	294	(7)
XLIII The Dreary Journey	301	(4)
XLIV The Halt at Crecy	305	(8)
XLV The Forest of Boulogne	313	(6)
XLVI Others in the Park	319	(7)
XLVII The Chapel of the Holy Sepulchre	326	(7)
XLVIII The Waning Moon	333	(5)
XLIX The Land of El Dorado	338