文档介绍:El Dorado
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Volume I
by Baroness Orczy
FOREWORD.......................................................................................... 1
PART I.................................................................................................... 7
CHAPTER I IN THE THEATRE NATIONAL............................... 7
CHAPTER II WIDELY DIVERGENT AIMS .............................. 22
CHAPTER III THE DEMON CHANCE...................................... 45
CHAPTER IV MADEMOISELLE LANGE ................................ 53
CHAPTER V THE TEMPLE PRISON......................................... 72
CHAPTER VI MITTEE’S AGENT............................. 89
CHAPTER VII THE MOST PRECIOUS LIFE IN EUROPE.... 101
CHAPTER VIII ARCADES AMBO........................................... 120
CHAPTER IX WHAT LOVE CAN DO ..................................... 132
CHAPTER X SHADOWS .......................................................... 157
CHAPTER XI THE LEAGUE OF THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL
..................................................................................................... 171
CHAPTER XII WHAT LOVE IS................................................ 199
CHAPTER XIII THEN EVERYTHING WAS DARK............... 217
CHAPTER XIV THE CHIEF ..................................................... 229
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El Dorado
FOREWORD
There has of late years crept so much confusion into
the mind of the student as well as of the general reader as to
the identity of the Scarlet Pimpernel with that of the
Gascon Royalist plotter known to history as the Baron de
Batz, that the time seems opportune for setting all doubts
on that subject at rest.
The identity of the Scarlet Pimpernel is in no way
whatever connected with that of the Baron de Batz, and
even superficial reflection will soon bring the mind to the
conclusion that great fundamental differences existed in
these two men, in their personality, in their character, an