# The Nabob, Vol. 2 (of 2)

Author: Daudet, Alphonse, 1840-1897; Matthews, Brander, 1852-1929 [Commentator]; Ives, George Burnham, 1856-1930 [Translator]

Genre: Category: Novels

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/21329

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Nabob%2C+Vol.+2+%28of+2%29+Daudet&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

As M. Joyeuse had informed the examining magistrate, Paul de Gery was on his way home from Tunis after an absence of three weeks. Three interminable weeks, passed in struggling amid a network of intrigues, of plots cunningly devised by the powerful enmity of the Hemerlingues, wandering from office to office, from department to department, through that vast _residence_ on the Bardo, where all the different departments of the State are collected in the same frowning enclosure, bristling with culverins, under the immediate supervision of the master, like his stables and his harem. Immediately on his arrival Paul had learned that the Chamber of Justice was beginning to hear the Jansoulet case...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-nabob-vol-2-of-2-21329/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-nabob-vol-2-of-2-21329/chapters/1/index.md)