#Ask me how much I love how completely exhausted Chauvelin is by the end of the ordeal

[burnsopale]

I love that in The Elusive Pimpernel, Marguerite and Chauvelin spend the final day in an absolute agony of anxiety, wound tight like clockwork toys, hands shaking, cold sweating, only keeping it together because they both want to seem cool in front of the other.

Meanwhile Percy is in his room napping peacefully in between writing poetry, the cad!

Do you even care about your wife and your pet ferret? Jerk!

#the scarlet pimpernel #The elusive pimpernel #This is the book were Percy has not yet learned how to communicate #Ask me how much I love how completely exhausted Chauvelin is by the end of the ordeal #He can't even fight back when Percy ties him up he passes out he's so overwrought #Ask me if I love the continuing parallel between him and Marguerite in how intense their feelings are in general and for Percy especially #Ask me if I love how this calls back to Percy calling Chauvelin a woman earlier in the book (I do despite the iffy gender politics) #Just don't ask me what I thought of the plot in general lol