The book El Dorado, An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel was written by author Orczy Emmuska Orczy Baroness Here you can read free online of El Dorado, An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is El Dorado, An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel a good or bad book?
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With that thought in his mind, Sir Percy was not likely to give up theattempt to ascertain for himself whether Armand had tried to communicatewith him or not. As for spies--well, he had dodged some of them oftenenough in his time--the risks that he ran to-night were no worse thanthe ones to which he had so successfully run counter in the Templeyesterday. Still keeping up the slouchy gait peculiar to the out-at-elbows workingman of the day, hugging the houses as he walked along the streets, Blak...eney made slow progress across the city. But at last he reached thefacade of St. Germain l'Auxerrois, and turning sharply to his right hesoon came in sight of the house which he had only quitted twenty-fourhours ago. We all know that house--all of us who are familiar with the Paris ofthose terrible days. It stands quite detached--a vast quadrangle, facing the Quai de l'Ecole and the river, backing on the Rue St. Germain l'Auxerrois, and shouldering the Carrefour des Trois Manes. The porte-cochere, so-called, is but a narrow doorway, and is actuallysituated in the Rue St.
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