THE LEAGUE OF THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL

Author : Baroness Orczy

  This one was still comparatively young, thirty at most; would have been good-looking too, for the features were really delicate, the nose chiseled, the brow straight, the chin round and small. But the mouth! Heavens, what a mouth! Hard and cruel and thin-lipped; and those eyes! sunken and rimmed with purple; eyes that told tales of sorrow and, yes! of degradation. The crowd stood round her, sullen and apathetic; poor, miserable wretches like herself, staring at her antics with lack-lustre eyes and an ever-recurrent contemptuous shrug of the shoulders.



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