"I have so often been asked the question: "But how did you come to think of The Scarlet Pimpernel?" And my answer has always been: "It was God's will that I should." And to you moderns, who perhaps do not believe as I do, I will say, "In the chain of my life, there were so many links, all of which tended towards bringing me to the fulfillment of my destiny." And nothing can be quite so wonderful as the workings of a man's or a woman's destiny."
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Emma Orczy
Emma ("Emmuska") Magdolna Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála Orczy de Orczi (23 September 1865 – 12 November 1947), known as Baroness Emma Orczy, was a British novelist, playwright and artist of Hungarian noble origin. She was most notable for her series of novels featuring The Scarlet Pimpernel.
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