My dear mum and I have at last finished another book in the Scarlet Pimpernel series, The Way of the Scarlet Pimpernel (1933), which of course involves Sir Percy being unmitigatedly awesome. There wasn't quite enough of him in this one, in my opinion, but the central characters who received the most attention were sufficiently interesting.
We've ordered the next in the series, and we're very excited to begin reading it. This one is called Sir Percy Hits Back (1927).
In this one, a young and pretty girl named Fleurette, becomes, for a reason yet unknown to me, suspected as a traitor to the Revolution, and is therefore arrested, much to the chagrin of her doting papa, who will go to any lengths to save her from death. Who is her papa? Why, none other than The Scarlet Pimpernel's own arch-enemy Chauvelin! Dun dun dun! Chauvelin will have to decide if he's willing to (temporarily) bury the hatchet, so to speak, and ask for help from the only person who could possibly save his darling daughter.
I think the thing that fascinates me most about this, is not that Chauvelin has a random child that we never knew about, but that he's actually fond of somebody, which, from Orczy's depiction of him, hardly seems conceivable.
In any case, I'm very much looking forward to Percy's next epic adventure. After this one, I have only 3 sequels, 2 short story collections, 2 prequels (involving one of Percy's ancestors), and a much much later sequel (involving one of his descendants) to go before finishing the entire saga.
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