[I Will Repay! (1906) -- (A book in the Sir Percy Blakeney: Scarlet Pimpernel series) -- A novel by Baroness Orczy]:
It is Paris, 1793, the most seething time of that seething revolution. No one knew in the morning if his head would still be on his shoulders in the evening, or if it would be held up by citizen Samson the headsman, for the sansculottes of Paris to see. However, the Scarlet Pimpernel, Sir Percy Blakeney, is still at large to rescue Frances aristocrats. |...| [Wikipedia]: I Will Repay was written by Baroness Emmuska Orzcy and originally published in 1906, this is a sequel novel to the Scarlet Pimpernel. The second Pimpernel book written by Orzcy, it comes (chronologically) third in the series and should be read after Sir Percy Leads the Band and before The Elusive Pimpernel...