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The Scarlet Pimpernel

CHAPTER XXV THE EAGLE AND THE FOX
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ain't it now?
La! you don't mind ?" he added, apologetically, as he sat down on a chair close to the table and drew the soup tureen towards him.

"That fool Brogard seems to be asleep or something." There was a second plate on the table, and he calmly helped himself to soup, then poured himself out a glass of wine.
For a moment Marguerite wondered what Chauvelin would do.

His disguise was so good that perhaps he meant, on recovering himself, to deny his identity: but Chauvelin was too astute to make such an obviously false and childish move, and already he too had stretched out his hand and said pleasantly,-- "I am indeed charmed to see you Sir Percy.


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