The Scarlet Pimpernel
According to marguerites explanation to chauvelin, how popular has the scarlet pimpernel become among the English? What things are named for him?
Ch 5-9
Ch 5-9
The Pimpernel has become almost an obsession among the English.
“Heard of the Scarlet Pimpernel?” she retorted with a long and merry laugh, “Faith man! we talk of nothing else. . . . We have hats ‘a la Scarlet Pimpernel’; our horses are called ‘Scarlet Pimpernel’; at the Prince of Wales’ supper party the other night we had a ‘souffle a la Scarlet Pimpernel.’ . . . Lud!” she added gaily, “the other day I ordered at my milliner’s a blue dress trimmed with green, and bless me, if she did not call that ‘a la Scarlet Pimpernel.”’
The Scarlet Pimpernel