by Emmuska Orczy
This is the second adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel (chronologically speaking, according to Goodreads), and while entertaining, it's not quite so endearing as the first. The number of times I can see the Pimpernel compared to Jesus Christ without my eyes rolling out of my head is a relatively low ...
[These notes were made in 1986; I read it in a Hodder & Stoughton 1939 edition:]. Well, at least it's not Marguerite who causes all the trouble this time! It's St. John Devinne, a member of the band, tho' not one of the 'regulars,' who has the effrontery to put his judgment up against Percy's, and ...