The Scarlet Pimpernel

Book Excerpt: gates.What cart? asked Bibot roughly.Driven by an old hag. . . . A covered cart . . .There were a dozen . . .An old hag who said her son had the plague?Yes . . .You have not let them go?MORBLEU! said Bibot whose purple cheeks had suddenly become white with fear.The cart contained the CI-DEVANT Comtesse de Tourney and her two children all of them traitors and condemned to death. And their driver? muttered Bibot as a superstitious shudder ran down his spine.SACRE TONNERRE said the captain but it is feared that it was that accursed Englishman himself--the Scarlet Pimpernel.CHAPTER IIDOVER: THE FISHERMANS RESTIn the kitchen Sally was extremely busy--saucepans and frying-pans were standing in rows on the gigantic hearth the huge stock-pot stood in a corner and the jack turned with slow deliberation and presented alternately to the glowRead More