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El Dorado: An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel

Baroness Emmuska Orczy

This sequel to "The Scarlet Pimpernel" follows Sir Percy's daring mission to rescue the young Dauphin from revolutionary Paris in 1794.

"El Dorado: An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel" by Baroness Emmuska Orczy Orczy is a novel. This sequel to "The Scarlet Pimpernel" follows Sir Percy's daring mission to rescue the young Dauphin from revolutionary Paris in 1794.

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And yet people found the opportunity to amuse themselves, to dance and to go to the theatre, to enjoy music and open-air cafes and promenades in the Palais Royal.

New fashions in dress made their appearance, milliners produced fresh “creations,” and jewellers were not idle. A grim sense of humour, born of the very intensity of ever-present danger, had dubbed the cut of certain tunics “tete tranche,” or a favourite ragout was called “a la guillotine.”

On three evenings only during the past memorable four and a half years did the theatres close their doors, and these evenings were the ones immediately following that terrible 2nd of September the day of the butchery outside the Abbaye prison, when Paris herself was aghast with horror, and the cries of the massacred might have drowned the calls of the audience whose hands upraised for plaudits would still be dripping with blood.

On all other evenings of these same four and a half years the theatres in the Rue de Richelieu, in the Palais Royal, the Luxembourg, and others, had raised their curtains and taken money at their doors. The same audience that earlier in the day had whiled away the time by witnessing the ever-recurrent dramas of the Place de la Revolution assembled here in the evenings and filled stalls, boxes, and tiers, laughing over the satires of Voltaire or weeping over the sentimental tragedies of persecuted Romeos and innocent Juliets.

Contents

  1. 01Part I.
  2. 02Chapter I. In the Theatre National
  3. 03Chapter II. Widely Divergent Aims
  4. 04Chapter III. The Demon Chance
  5. 05Chapter IV. Mademoiselle Lange
  6. 06Chapter V. The Temple Prison
  7. 07Chapter VI. The Committee’s Agent
  8. 08Chapter VII. The Most Precious Life in Europe
  9. 09Chapter VIII. Arcades Ambo
  10. 10Chapter IX. What Love Can Do
  11. 11Chapter X. Shadows
  12. 12Chapter XI. The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel
  13. 13Chapter XII. What Love Is
  14. 14Chapter XIII. Then Everything Was Dark
  15. 15Chapter XIV. The Chief
  16. 16Chapter XV. The Gate of La Villette
  17. 17Chapter XVI. The Weary Search
  18. 18Chapter XVII. Chauvelin
  19. 19Chapter XVIII. The Removal
  20. 20Chapter XIX. It Is About the Dauphin
  21. 21Chapter XX. The Certificate of Safety
  22. 22Chapter XXI. Back to Paris
  23. 23Chapter XXII. Of That There Could Be No Question
  24. 24Chapter XXIII. The Overwhelming Odds
  25. 25Part II.
  26. 26Chapter XXIV. The News
  27. 27Chapter XXV. Paris Once More
  28. 28Chapter XXVI. The Bitterest Foe
  29. 29Chapter XXVII. In the Conciergerie
  30. 30Chapter XXVIII. The Caged Lion
  31. 31Chapter XXIX. For the Sake of That Helpless Innocent
  32. 32Chapter XXX. Afterwards
  33. 33Chapter XXXI. An Interlude
  34. 34Chapter XXXII. Sisters
  35. 35Chapter XXXIII. Little Mother
  36. 36Chapter XXXIV. The Letter
  37. 37Part III.
  38. 38Chapter XXXV. The Last Phase
  39. 39Chapter XXXVI. Submission
  40. 40Chapter XXXVII. Chauvelin’s Advice
  41. 41Chapter XXXVIII. Capitulation
  42. 42Chapter XXXIX. Kill Him!
  43. 43Chapter XL. God Help Us All
  44. 44Chapter XLI. When Hope Was Dead
  45. 45Chapter XLII. The Guard-House of the Rue Ste. Anne
  46. 46Chapter XLIII. The Dreary Journey
  47. 47Chapter XLIV. The Halt at Crecy
  48. 48Chapter XLV. The Forest of Boulogne
  49. 49Chapter XLVI. Others in the Park
  50. 50Chapter XLVII. The Chapel of the Holy Sepulchre
  51. 51Chapter XLVIII. The Waning Moon
  52. 52Chapter XLIX. The Land of Eldorado

About this edition

Author
Baroness Emmuska Orczy
Language
English
Era
Modern (c. 1800–1945)
Reading level
Intermediate: some philosophy helps
Formats
EPUB, PDF
Length
298 pages
This edition
Modern Philosophers

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