All 4 Uses of
emissary
in
The Scarlet Pimpernel
- All these places are given as the point where this meddlesome Englishman has bidden the traitor de Tournay and others to meet his emissaries.†
Chpt 14 *emissaries = people sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else
- But it seems that he has decided not to send his emissaries, that 'he will start himself to-morrow.'†
Chpt 14
- Armand St. Just, the Comte de Tournay and other fugitive royalists were to have met the Scarlet Pimpernel—or rather, as it had been originally arranged, two of his emissaries—on this day, the 2nd of October, at a place evidently known to the league, and vaguely alluded to as the "Pere Blanchard's hut."†
Chpt 23
- He would be tracked by Chauvelin's emissaries, followed until he reached that mysterious hut where the fugitives were waiting for him, and there the trap would be closed on him and on them.†
Chpt 23
Definition:
someone sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else