Category: Crime, Thrillers and Mystery
CHAPTER PAGE I. PUNISHMENT 11 II. RODOLPH AND SARAH 44 III. LOVE'S FRENZY 68 IV. THE HOSPITAL 80 V. HOPE 108 VI. THE FATHER AND DAUGHTER 122 VII. THE MARRIAGE 141 VIII. BICETRE 152 IX. THE TOILET 183 X. MARTIAL AND THE CHOURINEUR 195 XI. THE FINGER OF PROVIDENCE 201
We will again conduct the reader into the study of Jacques Ferrand. Availing ourselves of the loquacity of the clerks, we shall endeavour, through their instrumentality, to narr...
9. CHAPTER VIII.A fortnight had elapsed since Sarah's death, and it was mid-Lent Sunday. This date established, we will conduct the reader to Bicetre, an immense building, which, though origina...
5. CHAPTER IV.It will be remembered that Fleur-de-Marie, saved by La Louve, had been conveyed not far from the Isle du Ravageur to the country-house of Doctor Griffon, one of the surgeons of...
14. CHAPTER II.The apartment of Fleur-de-Marie (we only call her the Princess Amelie officially) had been by Rodolph's orders splendidly furnished. From the balcony of the oratory the two towe...
3. CHAPTER II.The day had begun to break when Sarah, seated in a large easy chair, and supported by her brother, Thomas Seyton, was looking at herself in a mirror which one of her woman on he...
13. CHAPTER I.I am just arrived from Gerolstein, where I have passed three months with the grand duke and his family. I expected to find a letter announcing your arrival at Oldenzaal, my dear...
7. CHAPTER VI.Ignorant of Fleur-de-Marie's being the prince's daughter, Madame d'Harville, in the fullness of her delight at restoring to him his protegee, had not reckoned upon its being nec...
15. CHAPTER III.Your assurance that your father is better induces me to hope you will be enabled to return here with him shortly. I dreaded that at Rosenfeld, situated in the midst of the woods...
6. CHAPTER V.Spring was approaching, and already the sun darted a more genial warmth, the sky was blue and clear, while the balmy air seemed to bring life and breath upon its invigorating wi...
10. CHAPTER IX.The condemned cell of Bicetre was situated at the end of a gloomy passage, into which a trifling portion of light and air was admitted by means of small gratings let into the lo...
12. CHAPTER XI.The Chourineur had forgotten that it was the day after mid-Lent, and was consequently greatly surprised at the sight, at once hideous and singular, which presented itself to his...
4. CHAPTER III.It was nightfall when Rodolph went to the notary's. The pavilion occupied by Jacques Ferrand was plunged in the deepest obscurity; the wind roared and the rain fell as it did on...
8. CHAPTER VII.From the moment in which she had learnt from Rodolph the violent death of Fleur-de-Marie, Sarah had felt crushed and borne down by a disclosure so fatal to all her ambitious hop...
11. CHAPTER X.When Germain had left the prison, the Chourineur proved very easily that he had robbed himself; and making a statement of his motive for this singular mystification to the magis...
1. VOLUME VI.CHAPTER PAGE I. PUNISHMENT 11 II. RODOLPH AND SARAH 44 III. LOVE'S FRENZY 68 IV. THE HOSPITAL 80 V. HOPE 108 VI. THE FATHER AND DAUGHTER 122 VII. THE MARRIAGE 141 VIII. BICETRE...