Could I, or any one else, doubt for a moment that sooner or later your romantic hero would turn his attention to the most pathetic sight in the whole of Europe--the child-martyr in the Temple prison?
The wonder were to me if the Scarlet Pimpernel ignored our little King altogether for the sake of his subjects.

No, no; do not think for a moment that you have betrayed your friend's secret to me.

When I met you so luckily today I guessed at once that you were here under the banner of the enigmatical little red flower, and, thus guessing, I even went a step further in my conjecture.

The Scarlet Pimpernel is in Paris now in the hope of rescuing Louis XVII from the Temple prison." "If that is so, you must not only rejoice but should be able to help." "And yet, my friend, I do neither the one now nor mean to do the other in the future," said de Batz placidly.

"I happen to be a Frenchman, you see." "What has that to do with such a question ?" "Everything; though you, Armand, despite that you are a Frenchman too, do not look through my spectacles.