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The Scarlet Pimpernel

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and thus they will have an opportunity of speaking to him to-night, just as he directed them to do.
Therefore, this morning, those two young gallants found every bar and bolt open in that lonely house on the Dover Road, their jailers disappeared, and two good horses standing ready saddled and tethered in the yard.

I have not seen them yet, but I think we may safely conclude that they did not draw rein until they reached London.

Now you see how simple it all is, citoyenne!" "It does seem simple, doesn't it ?" she said, with a final bitter attempt at flippancy, "when you want to kill a chicken.

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