Category: Crime, Thrillers and Mystery
CHAP. PAGE I. THE TAPIS-FRANC 11 II. THE OGRESS 19 III. HISTORY OF LA GOUALEUSE 31 IV. THE CHOURINEUR'S HISTORY 47 V. THE ARREST 59 VI. THOMAS SEYTON AND THE COUNTESS SARAH 67 VII. "YOUR MONEY OR YOUR LIFE" 74 VIII. THE WALK 80 IX. THE SURPRISE 90 X. CASTLES IN THE AIR 99 XI....
In order to profit by the particulars furnished by Baron de Graün respecting La Goualeuse and Germain, the Schoolmaster's son, it became necessary for Rodolph to visit the house...
27. CHAPTER XXVI.As the eleventh hour of the night sounded from the different clocks in Paris, the gates of an hôtel in the Rue Plumet were thrown open by a Swiss in rich livery, and forthwith i...
26. CHAPTER XXV.Sarah Seyton, widow of Count Macgregor, and at this time thirty-six or thirty-seven years of age, was of an excellent Scotch family, daughter of a baronet, and a country gentlem...
22. CHAPTER XXI.The house which Rodolph had in the Allée des Veuves was not his usual place of residence; he lived in one of the largest mansions in the Faubourg St. Germain, situated at the en...
11. CHAPTER X.For some time after this conversation with the Chourineur, Rodolph remained preoccupied and pensive, while Fleur-de-Marie, too timid to break the silence, continued to gaze on h...
12. CHAPTER XI.Upon quitting the house, Rodolph bent his steps towards the farmyard, where he found the individual who, the preceding evening, disguised as a charcoal-man, had warned him of th...
4. CHAPTER III."I don't know, sir. As far back as I can remember--I was, I think, about six or seven years old--I was with an old one-eyed woman, whom they call the Chouette,[6] because she ha...
17. CHAPTER XVI.Snatched by the Chourineur from a certain death, and removed to the house in the Allée des Veuves which had been reconnoitred by the Chouette, previously to the attempt on it by...
18. CHAPTER XVII.The scene we are about to describe took place in a room hung with red, and brilliantly lighted. Rodolph, clothed in a long dressing-gown of black velvet, which increased the pal...
5. CHAPTER IV.The reader has not forgotten the two guests at the _tapis-franc_ who were watched so closely by the third individual who had come into the cabaret. We have said that one of thes...
3. CHAPTER II.The White Rabbit is situated in the centre of the Rue aux Fêves. This tavern occupies the ground floor of a lofty house, the front of which is formed by two windows, which are s...
23. CHAPTER XXII."Mr. Willis, a rich American planter, settled in Florida," said Murphy, "had discovered in one of his young black slaves, named David, who was employed in the infirmary attached...
13. CHAPTER XII.The day after he had confided the Goualeuse to the care of Madame Georges, Rodolph, still dressed as a mechanic, was, at noon precisely, at the door of a cabaret with the sign o...
25. CHAPTER XXIV.The damp, dark staircase looked still more gloomy through the fog of a November day. The entrance to each separate set of apartments in this house bore its own peculiar and dist...
9. CHAPTER VIII.On the day after the evening on which the various events we have described had passed, a bright autumnal sun shone from a pure sky; the darkness of the night had wholly disappea...
10. CHAPTER IX.We have said that Goualeuse was sitting on the trunk of a fallen tree, at the edge of a deep ditch. Suddenly a man, springing up from the bottom of this hollow, shook the rubbis...
15. CHAPTER XIV.This personage, whom Rodolph had been to see in the Cité, and whom he did not yet know under his true name, or, rather, his habitual surname, was Bras Rouge.
20. CHAPTER XIX."Well, then, M. Rodolph, I have to ask your pardon for not having been to see you after the night with the Schoolmaster. I see now that I was guilty of a great rudeness; but I d...
2. CHAPTER I.It was on a cold and rainy night, towards the end of October, 1838, that a tall and powerful man, with an old broad-brimmed straw hat upon his head, and clad in a blue cotton ca...
6. CHAPTER V.The man who had gone out for a moment, after having requested the ogress to look after his jug and plate, soon returned, accompanied by a tall, brawny man, to whom he said, "It...
7. CHAPTER VI.The two persons who had just entered the _tapis-franc_ were quite of another class from those who ordinarily frequented it. One, tall and erect, had hair almost white, black eye...
14. CHAPTER XIII."What! not rain!" replied the Schoolmaster; "are you blind? Do you think I will expose Finette to the chance of catching cold, and exposing her precious life, and spoiling her n...
19. CHAPTER XVIII.A month has elapsed since the occurrence of the events we have just narrated. We now conduct the reader into the little town of the Isle-Adam, situated in a delightful locality...
16. CHAPTER XV.Stunned by his horrible fall, Rodolph lay senseless and motionless at the bottom of the stairs, down which he had been hurled. The Schoolmaster, dragging him to the entrance of...
8. CHAPTER VII.The noise which was made by the shutting of the door aroused Tom and Sarah from their reverie, and they rose, and, having thanked the Chourineur for the information he had given...
21. CHAPTER XX.Thanks to the care of Murphy and Rodolph, who with difficulty calmed his agitation, the Chourineur was completely restored to himself, and was alone with the prince in one of th...
1. VOLUME I.CHAP. PAGE I. THE TAPIS-FRANC 11 II. THE OGRESS 19 III. HISTORY OF LA GOUALEUSE 31 IV. THE CHOURINEUR'S HISTORY 47 V. THE ARREST 59 VI. THOMAS SEYTON AND THE COUNTESS SARAH 67 V...