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The Scarlet Pimpernel

CHAPTER XX THE FRIEND
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Percy has sailed for Calais, I presume for some lonely part of the coast, and Chauvelin is on his track.

HE has posted for Dover, and will cross the Channel probably to-night.

What do you think will happen ?" The young man was silent.
"Percy will arrive at his destination: unconscious of being followed he will seek out de Tournay and the others--among these is Armand St.Just my brother--he will seek them out, one after another, probably, not knowing that the sharpest eyes in the world are watching his every movement.

When he has thus unconsciously betrayed those who blindly trust in him, when nothing can be gained from him, and he is ready to come back to England, with those whom he has gone so bravely to save, the doors of the trap will close upon him, and he will be sent to end his noble life upon the guillotine." Still Sir Andrew was silent.
"You do not trust me," she said passionately.

"Oh God! cannot you see that I am in deadly earnest?
Man, man," she added, while, with her tiny hands she seized the young man suddenly by the shoulders, forcing him to look straight at her, "tell me, do I look like that vilest thing on earth--a woman who would betray her own husband ?" "God forbid, Lady Blakeney," said the young man at last, "that I should attribute such evil motives to you, but.


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