Category: Novels
The scene is Paris, the Imperial Paris, but not a quarter that is fashionable, wealthy, or much frequented by the tourist. It is the wild, slovenly, buoyant quarter of the Paris of the left bank, known as _le Pays Latin_--the Land of Latin. The quarter of frolic and genius, of...
'Poor Marguerite!' ejaculated O'Hara, when he had heard from his visitor an account of the scene in _La Jeune France_. 'So this was her kismet! _Sic transit gloria Aspasiæ._ Wel...
14. CHAPTER XIV.There is a certain poet whose free-and-easy philosophy expressed in verse, rippling and silvery, but slightly too luscious for Sunday reading in a boarding-school conducted on c...
6. CHAPTER VI.'When I was young like you,' began the captain, 'I had my illusions. I came of a royalist family which had suffered much by the Revolution, and had stood up for the cause of the...
5. CHAPTER V.Few who saw the miserable despairing lodger in the Hôtel de Suez, who looked out sadly from his thin blankets on the prospect of hope vanishing with the last vapour of his pipe,...
2. CHAPTER II.When the stray dog had finished his welcome repast, licking the sides of the bowl which had contained it with a gusto which many a dyspeptic favourite, fondled on the velvet cus...
13. CHAPTER XIII.It is a mistake to begin married life by gormandizing, by an outlay which one cannot afford, by affectation of a social position to which luxuries are common, or by servility to...
9. CHAPTER IX.On the day following the events detailed in our last chapter, O'Hara was seated in his chamber, hard at work at his desk, when a visitor announced himself at the door. It was th...
8. CHAPTER VIII.On the following day, true to his word, the O'Hoolohan Roe might be seen pulling the bell at the door of No. 39, in the Rue de la Vieille Estrapade. He was elaborately got up in...
3. CHAPTER III.The crowd immediately gathered round the fainting grisette as she lay in the arms of our friend, forgetting, in their eagerness for this fresh excitement, the morbid spectacle o...
7. CHAPTER VII.The morning after Captain Chauvin had admitted the young Irishman into his confidences was wet and gloomy. At half-past ten a.m. O'Hara was seated in front of his dressing-table...
4. CHAPTER IV.Joy seldom kills. Before the female figure, whose apparition at the window had thrown the girl, so strangely fallen under O'Hara's protection, into her second swoon, had time to...
10. CHAPTER X.If this were not a veracious history, in the customary order of events as they occur in the construction of fiction, the reader should have gone straight from the quick and grac...
1. CHAPTER I.The scene is Paris, the Imperial Paris, but not a quarter that is fashionable, wealthy, or much frequented by the tourist. It is the wild, slovenly, buoyant quarter of the Paris...
12. CHAPTER XII.There be marriages which are made in heaven, some poet tells us, but in France they are more usually negotiated over the desk of the notary public. This is the system: Monsieur...
15. CHAPTER XV.It was the forty-ninth anniversary of the death of the eagle chained to the rock--of the Prometheus who was not unbound--of Napoleon Bonaparte imprisoned at St. Helena. Captivit...