The Scarlet Pimpernel Page #3

ALL DAY?

I'M AFRAID SO.

THIS YOUNG IDEALIST HAS

JUST BECOME MY ASSISTANT.

SO HE HAS NO CHOICE.

YOU MUST BE:

CALLED CHAUVELIN.

CHIEF AGENT FOR THE

COMMITTEE OF NATIONAL SECURITY,

AT YOUR SERVICE.

MADEMOISELLE...?

YOU HAVE THE HONOR

OF ADDRESSING LOUISE LONGET,

LA CHANTESS.

BUT, OF COURSE.

YOU'RE MARGUERITE'S

NEW UNDERSTUDY.

I GATHER YOU'RE RESPONSIBLE

FOR THE ARREST AND EXECUTION

OF ALL THESE...

UNDESIRABLE ARISTOCRATS.

THAT IS A SMALL PAR OF MY DUTIES, MADEMOISELLE.

THE OTHER IS MAKING LONG,

BORING SPEECHES:

AT SOCIAL FUNCTIONS

LIKE THIS.

WELL, NOW YOU WILL HAVE

THE OPPORTUNITY TO LEARN

HOW TO MAKE:

BORING SPEECHES, TOO.

VERY WELL, JUST FOR THIS ONCE,

I WILL OVERCOME MY USUAL

PATRIOTIC ZEAL, AND CONFINE MYSELF

TO A SIMPLE TOAST TO THE REPUBLIC.

THE REPUBLIC!

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THE REPUBLIC.

SEEMS THE BARON DE BATZ DOES NO SHARE OUR ENTHUSIASM FOR THE TOAST.

PERHAPS HE IS NOT A FRIEND OF...

THE REPUBLIC.

OH, ON THE CONTRARY,

MY DEAR CHAUVELIN,

I MAY BE AN AUSTRIAN,

BY NATIONALITY,

AND ARISTOCRAT BY BIRTH,

BUT I CAN ASSURE YOU

THAT I AM:

A VERY GOOD FRIEND

OF THE REPUBLIC.

I BELIEVE, RATHER, THA THE BARON IS A FRIEND OF PROFIT,

WILLING TO SELL HIS ALLEGIANCE

TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER.

IT WOULD APPEAR, MADEMOISELLE,

THAT MY PRESENCE HERE

THIS EVENING IS GIVING YOU

DISTRESS. I SHALL CAUSE YOU NO

FURTHER EMBARRASSMENT,

AND I SHALL BID YOU GOOD EVENING.

THIS JUST SHOWS HOW

VIGILANT WE MUST BE.

WE HAVE TO ROOT OU THE ENEMIES IN OUR MIDST.

WE NEVER KNOW WHERE

THEY MIGHT STRIKE NEXT.

BUT, IF BLOOD HAS TO

BE SHED, NO ONE, I PROMISE YOU

REGRETS IT MORE THAN I DO.

"THE DAUPHIN IS TO BE HELD

PRISONER IN THE TEMPLE. ST. CYR."

AH, THERE YOU ARE.

HOW COULD YOU BE SO RUDE?

TO DE BATZ?

HE WAS A GUES IN MY HOME.

AN UNWORTHY GUEST.

THE MAN IS SUSPECTED

OF SELLING SECRET INFORMATION

TO THE AUSTRIAN:

GOVERNMENT.

AND WHY HAVEN' YOU ARRESTED HIM?

BECAUSE, MY DEAR, HE ALSO

SELLS SECRET INFORMATION,

ABOUT THE AUSTRIANS,

TO US.

YOU'VE EXECUTED

MEN FOR LESS.

REVOLUTIONS ARE:

NEVER BLOODLESS.

THIS BRIEF REIGN OF TERROR,

WILL PURGE THE LAND OF ALL CORRUPTION.

AND TAKE US:

TO NEW HEIGHTS.

BE CAREFUL WHERE I TAKES YOU, PAUL.

TO A NEW ORDER.

TO THE DAY OF GLORY.

AND WE WILL BE:

PROUD OF IT, MARGARITE,

YOU AND I. JUST AS

WE'VE ALWAYS DREAMED.

AND THEN I WILL:

MAKE YOU MY WIFE.

AND THE FUTURE:

WILL BE OURS.

SIR PERCY!

LORD, MADEMOISELLE,

YOU ARE EVEN:

MORE BEAUTIFUL, THAN I RECALL.

IF THAT IS POSSIBLE.

PAUL, THIS IS THE GENTLEMAN

WHO RESCUED ARMAND.

PAUL CHAUVELIN, CHIEF AGEN OF THE COMMITTEE OF NATIONAL SECURITY.

SIR PERCY BLAKENEY.

IT IS A PLEASURE...

MONSIEUR.

THE PLEASURE, I CAN

ASSURE YOU, IS ALL MINE.

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