The Scarlet Pimpernel Looks at
the World
A Holiday Book for Young and Old but Not for the Highbrow
by Baroness Orczy
Many special thanks to J. Randolph
Cox for researching and providing the original text! We are truly
in your debt!
Table of Contents
Foreward
I Sir Percy Blakeney Puts up His Quizzing-Glass
II Romantic Britons
III But Romance Does Not Come Unsought
IV Let Modern Youth Have Its Head
V But Do Not Allow Progress to Become
a Steamroller
VI Where Are Your Corinthians To-day?
VII Success? A Practical Talk to the
Ambitious
VIII Your Lives Are as Colourful To-day
as Ever They Were
IX And Romance Still Pays
X But You Must Live Dangerously
XI Romantic Radio
XII Away to El Dorado
XIII The Romance of Patriotism
XIV The Worst Blot on Your Civilization
XV The Glamour of Old Things
XVI One Word on the Importance of
Universal Goodwill
XVII To the Ladies -- God Bless' Em!
XVIII Is Love a Dry Business Nowadays?
XIX Has Progress Got Ahead of You?
XX Give Your Children a Chance
XXI The Unimportance of Wealth for
its Own Sake
XXII Who Said That Petticoat Government
No Longer Exists?
XXIII Two Heads Are Better Than One
XXIV Are Women Really Selfish?
XXV Love is Still Life's Most Romantic
Adventure
XXVI What is the Price of Love?
XXVII Perfect Lover, Perfect Husband?
XXVIII Leaving You at the Altar
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