The Scarlet Pimpernel, by Emma Orczy
Sir Percy Blakeney is a wealthy English baronet who is a master of disguise, a skilled swordsman, and a quick-thinking escape artist who helps members of the French aristocracy escape the guillotine during the French Revolution. He poses as a dim-witted, foppish playboy to keep people from catching on.
"Oh, you can’t help that," said the Cat: "we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad."
"How do you know I’m mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn’t have come here.”
- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
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