The Scarlet Pimpernel
Percy is a character who leads a dual life as a snobbish Englishman and as a true erveryday kind of hero. What are his character traits?
Scarlet Pimpernel
Scarlet Pimpernel
Percy Blakeney appears to us first as the maligned husband of Lady Blakeney -- one of the richest, most fashionable men in England, but also a reputed dunce. He is built like a truck, apparently, with big shoulders and muscles, but this only adds to his reputation as a stupid stooge. But Percy is of course secretly the Scarlet Pimpernel who raids the barricades of France to save condemned French aristocrats from the guillotine.
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