The Scarlet Pimpernel

Pere Blanchard's Hut

Comment on the SETTING of Pere Blanchard’s Hut

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No doubt on the right, somewhere close ahead, was the footpath that led to the edge of the cliff and to the hut.

Suddenly, as she gazed, she saw at some little distance on her left, and about midway down the cliffs, a rough wooden construction, through the walls of which a tiny red light glimmered like a beacon. Her very heart seemed to stand still, the eagerness of joy was so great that it felt like an awful pain.

With a wild shriek, she sprang to her feet, and darted round the rock, against which she had been cowering; she saw the little red gleam through the chinks of the hut; she ran up to it and fell against its wooden walls, which she began to hammer with clenched fists in an almost maniacal frenzy, while she shouted,—

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The Scarlet Pimpernel