wherein he always got out of his depth, and had but little chance for dis-playing those pearls of wisdom which had earned for him so high a reputation in the neighbourhood and so many free tankards of ale at ‘The Fisherman’s Rest.
If someone said this to me today I would have to ask them to say it again.
Jellyband’
Even though it is not jellybean Jellyband Is still funny.
‘xpect
Can someone tell me if it is supposed to be like that or if it is how he talks?
Jellyband,
I keep reading this as Jellybean and it keeps making me laugh.
‘Aye! you wouldn’t rec’llect the first three years of them sixty,
When I read this I imagine a Texas or New York accent.
The Fisherman’s Rest
I was right about the fishermans rest.
gigantic
I didn't know what this meant it means big or of great size.
hearth,
Just in case you didn't know like me a hearth is a the bottom of a fireplace.
In
So now that I have read a little I can predict a little better also the chapter title helps a lot fishermans rest sounds like a hotel/motel.
An old hag
I knew a hag was like a evil person but I didn't know that it means witch.
her huge, bony fingers
I imagine like jack skeleton hands.
Scarlet Pimpernel.
Ok so the scarlet pimpernel is like this persons signature.
at least fifty aristos to the guillotine
Can you imagine executing at least 50 people? I can't.
the crowd round Bibot’s gate was eager and excited. The lust of blood grows with its satisfaction, there is no satiety: the crowd had seen a hundred noble heads fall beneath the guillotine
This shows that not only is Bibot a brutal person but all of the civilians are too.
Bibot would let his prey actually out by the gates, allowing him to think for the space of two minutes at least that he really had escaped out of Paris
So far this text shows how brutal time actual were and how fortunate we are.
Bibot would look at his prey as a cat looks upon the mouse, play with him, sometimes for quite a quarter of an hour,
I like the language here it gives me shivers I also like how it shows Bibot has patience when it says he would play with him sometimes for half an hour.
instrument of torture claimed its many victims—old men, young women, tiny children until the day when it would finally demand the head of a King and of a beautiful young Queen
I feel like being king is not worth torturing people.
scarlet heels
So maybe this is where the scarlet part of the title comes from but I still am curious about the pimpernel part.
It was to be seen every day, for those aristos were such fools! They were traitors to the people of course, all of them,
By the end of this page I was surprised about what was going on it was not what I expected but I am intrigued.
During the greater part of the day the guillotine had been kept busy
I think it is kinda gross that the guillotine was kept busy and it says for the better part of a day so this probably means that a lot of people were executed.
, a proud tyrant
So I didn't know what a tyrant was so I looked it up and if you were wondering it means a cruel and oppressive ruler.
A surging, seethin
So before I started to read I wanted to predicted what was going to happen but the title didn't really give any hints.