Baroness Emmuska Orczy, from 'Th Quotes

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Baroness Emmuska Orczy was a Hungarian-born British author, best known for her famous novel "The Scarlet Pimpernel". She was born in 1865 and later settled in London. Orczy's adventurous tale of a cunning Englishman, Sir Percy Blakeney, who led a secret double life as a heroic spy during the French Revolution, captured the hearts of readers. She went on to write numerous sequels and other novels, establishing herself as a popular writer of historical fiction. Baroness Orczy's storytelling skills continue to captivate readers around the world, making her a renowned figure in literature.

'Exactly,' he said, while he leant forward excitedly, for all the world like a Jack-in-the-box let loose. 'Precisely; and you are a journalist - call yourself one, at least - and it should be part of your business to notice and describe people. I don't mean only the wonderful personage with the clear Saxon features, the fine blue eyes, the noble brow and classic face, but the ordinary person - the person who represents ninety out of every hundred of his own kind - the average Englishman, say, of the middle classes, who is neither very tall nor very short, who wears a moustache which is neither fair nor dark, but which masks his mouth, and a top hat which hides the shape of his head and brow, a man, in fact, who dresses like hundreds of his fellow-creatures, moves like them, speaks like them, has no peculiarity.'

Baroness Emmuska Orczy, from 'Th

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