Red flower

Description

Book: The red flower

Author: Emma Orczy

Genre: translated novel

Translator: Nicolas Haddad

Publisher: Bibliomania

Number of pages: 142

from work:

Grosbeer carefully guarded his gate, and he expected that the “red flower” would pass by and give him an account, but this devil would not pass my gate. And the carriages were passing by his gate, and some were on cages, and an old old man drove them, and the stupid, ignorant Grosbeer was a little drunk, and he searched most of the cages and found nothing, and let the carriages pass. Half an hour later, an officer in command of 12 soldiers panting from running came to him and asked him, “Has a transport vehicle passed here?” Grosbeer replied, “Many vehicles have passed for half an hour,” and asked him, “Have you permitted all of them to pass?” And he said: ‘Yes,’ he said to him, ‘Then you will be led to the guillotine, Officer Grospierre, for in it there is a chariot carrying Duke Challe and his family, and its chauffeur with the ‘Red Rose’.