Category: Novels
CHAPTER PAGE I. THE BALL 11 II. THE RENDEZVOUS 36 III. AN IDYL 61 IV. THE AMBUSCADE 74 V. THE RECTORY-HOUSE 88 VI. THE RENCOUNTER 99 VII. AN EVENING AT THE FARM 105 VIII. THE DREAM 150 IX. THE LETTER 159 X. THE HOLLOW WAY 195 XI. CLÉMENCE D'HARVILLE 201 XII. MISERY 256 XIII. J...
It will be remembered that Rodolph had preserved Madame d'Harville from an imminent danger, occasioned by the jealousy of Sarah, who had acquainted M. d'Harville with the assign...
8. CHAPTER VII.Perhaps a more gratifying sight does not exist than the interior of a large farm-kitchen prepared for the evening meal, especially during the winter season. Its bright wood fire...
10. CHAPTER IX.The hour of nine had struck on the Bouqueval clock, when Madame Georges softly entered the chamber of Fleur-de-Marie. The light slumber of the young girl was quickly broken, and...
13. CHAPTER XII.The reader has probably not forgotten that the garret in the Rue du Temple was occupied by an unfortunate family, the father of whom was a working lapidary, named Morel. We shal...
2. CHAPTER I.Belonging to one of the first families in France, still young, and with a face that would have been agreeable had it not been for the almost ridiculous and disproportionate leng...
14. CHAPTER XIII.The lapidary, much astonished, rose and opened the door. Two men entered the garret. One, tall, lanky, with an ill-favoured and pimply face, shaded by thick grizzly whiskers, he...
15. CHAPTER XIV.Louise, the daughter of the lapidary, was possessed of more than ordinary loveliness of countenance, a fine, tall, graceful person, uniting, by the strict regularity of her faul...
3. CHAPTER II.Determined at all risks to warn Madame d'Harville of the danger she was incurring, Rodolph had quitted the winter garden without waiting to hear the remainder of the conversatio...
5. CHAPTER IV.The church and parsonage of Bouqueval were placed on the side of a hill covered with chestnut-trees, and commanded an entire view of the village. Fleur-de-Marie and the abbé rea...
4. CHAPTER III.The hour of five had just struck from the church clock of the little village of Bouqueval; the cold was intense, the sky clear, the sun, sinking slowly behind the vast leafless...
6. CHAPTER V.The last rays of the sun were gradually disappearing behind the vast pile of the Château d'Ecouen and the woods which surrounded it. On all sides, until the sight lost them in t...
9. CHAPTER VIII.He was again in Rodolph's house in the Allée des Veuves. The saloon in which the miscreant had received his appalling punishment had not undergone any alteration. Rodolph himsel...
11. CHAPTER X.The sun was descending, and the fields were silent and deserted. Fleur-de-Marie had reached the entrance to the hollow way, which it was necessary to cross in her walk to the re...
7. CHAPTER VI.The night set in clear and cold. Following the advice of the Schoolmaster, the Chouette had gone to that part of the hollow way which was the most remote from the path, and near...
1. VOLUME II.CHAPTER PAGE I. THE BALL 11 II. THE RENDEZVOUS 36 III. AN IDYL 61 IV. THE AMBUSCADE 74 V. THE RECTORY-HOUSE 88 VI. THE RENCOUNTER 99 VII. AN EVENING AT THE FARM 105 VIII. THE DR...