All that is at an end...

There is no fear that the woman shall escape....

You are all to dance and rejoice....

The Scarlet Pimpernel has been captured in Boulogne, last night..." "Qui ca the Scarlet Pimpernel ?" "Mais! 'tis that mysterious English adventurer who rescued people from the guillotine!" "A hero?
quoi ?" "No! no! only an English spy, a friend of aristocrats...

he would have cared nothing for the bread-winners of Boulogne..." "He would not have raised a finger to save them." "Who knows ?" sighed a feminine voice, "perhaps he came to Boulogne to help them." "And he has been caught anyway," concluded Auguste Moleux sententiously, "and, my little cabbages, remember this, that so great is the pleasure of the all-powerful Committee of Public Safety at this capture, that because he has been caught in Boulogne, therefore Boulogne is to be specially rewarded!" "Holy Virgin, who'd have thought it ?" "Sh...