[The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy]@TWC D-Link bookThe Scarlet Pimpernel CHAPTER IX THE OUTRAGE 9/13
Faith!" added the young man, as his eyes glowed with enthusiasm for the beloved leader, "that man's a marvel! His cheek is preposterous, I vow!--and that's what carries him through." Lord Antony, whose vocabulary was more limited than that of his friend, could only find an oath or two with which to show his admiration for his leader. "He wants you and Hastings to meet him at Calais," said Sir Andrew, more quietly, "on the 2nd of next month.
Let me see! that will be next Wednesday." "Yes." "It is, of course, the case of the Comte de Tournay, this time; a dangerous task, for the Comte, whose escape from his chateau, after he had been declared a 'suspect' by the Committee of Public Safety, was a masterpiece of the Scarlet Pimpernel's ingenuity, is now under sentence of death.
It will be rare sport to get HIM out of France, and you will have a narrow escape, if you get through at all.
St.Just has actually gone to meet him--of course, no one suspects St.Just as yet; but after that.
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