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Originally Posted by MickiTee
The thing that I have the most trouble with is how Sir Percy manages to disguise himself so well especially based on Orczy's description of him at the beginning of chapter 6:
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Surely someone with those physical characteristics is always going to stand out from the crowd no matter how good the disguise.
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Not to mention the huge bag of cosmetics and clothes changes that would have been needed, not to mention no one noticing a big handsome guy (in garish clothes) going in and a old-lady/elderly-Jew/whatever (in dirty rags) coming out.
Still, if we can accept that a pair of reading glasses are enough to turn Superman into Clarke Kent, I guess we can give Orczy a pass on this.
On the plus side, the few disguises we are given in this book remain vaguely plausible: the old lady driving the cart was always seated, the elderly Jew was described as "He had the habitual stoop, those of his race affected in mock humility in past centuries". (We may question why Chauvelin did not remember his own advise, recited back to him just a few minutes earlier, to watch out for "if he be tall, or stoop as if he would disguise his height", but better not
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