Mysteries of Paris Novel Chapters
List of most recent chapters published for the Mysteries of Paris novel. A total of 196 chapters have been translated and the release date of the last chapter is Apr 02, 2024
Latest Release: Chapter 1 : The Mysteries of Paris.by Eugene Sue.VOL 2.CHAPTER x.x.xVIII.THE EXECUTION.The surprised
The Mysteries of Paris.by Eugene Sue.VOL 2.CHAPTER x.x.xVIII.THE EXECUTION.The surprised lapidary rose and opened the door. Two men entered the garret. One of them was tall and thin, with a face mean and pimpled, surrounded by thick, grayish whiskers; he
- 101 Before they enter the kitchen, we will relate what pa.s.sed since Fleur-de-Marie had been confided to the care of the children.CHAPTER x.x.xV.DR. GRIFFON.Francois and Amandine had just carried Fleur-de-Marie into the kitchen near the fire, when Saint Remy
- 102 "What you say is frightful!" said the count."For him who knows how to read it, the human body is a book where one learns to save the life of the sick," said Dr. Griffon, stoically."However, you do good," said Saint Remy, bitt
- 103 repeated she, "gave you this child, and"--she could not finish. Her emotion was too violent; with her hands stretched toward La Chouette, trembling violently, surprise and joy were expressed on her countenance."But I did not know you were g
- 104 The "Bleeding Heart Tavern" was situated on the Champs Elysees, near the Cours la Reine, in one of the vast moats which bounded this promenade some years since. The inhabitants of the island had not yet appeared. Since the departure of Bradamant
- 105 CHAPTER x.x.xVIII.SCREECH-OWL.Her rapidity of step, the ferocious ardor of a desire for rapine and murder which she still possessed, had flushed her hideous visage; her one green eye sparkled with savage joy.Tortillard followed her, jumping and limping. J
- 106 A cry, or rather a savage howl, came up from the depths of the cellar."Oh, there is my darling, who says 'good-day' to his mamma," said La Chouette, ironically; and she descended a few steps to conceal her prize in some corner."I
- 107 "On finding myself alone--constantly alone in obscurity and silence--I began to have fits of furious rage; powerless, for the first time I lost my senses, my head wandered. Yes, although awake, I have dreamed the dream you know: the dream of the old
- 108 She was a very beautiful quadroon, whose story ran briefly thus: Owned by a Louisiana planter, he had refused permission for her to marry another of his slaves, known as David, because he had, sultan-like, set his own choice upon her. David, by intelligen
- 109 "He grumbled and muttered: 'To abandon a girl at her age is to ruin her. To return to Germany as a beggar, it is fine! Do you, her aunt, allow such conduct?' 'Well, well,' said I to myself, 'you're right.I'll place
- 110 "The day before yesterday, on going to see Louise at Saint Lazare, I met her.""The Goualeuse?""Yes, M. Rudolph.""In Saint Lazare?""She came out with an old lady.""It is impossible!" cried Rudolph
- 111 "With me. Judge what a companion! during twelve hours, side by side with the man I despise and hate the most in the world! I would as soon travel with a serpent; my antipathy--""And where is Polidori now?""In the house of the Alle
- 112 "My poor father looked at his wife, Dr. Polidori, Sir Walter, and myself in a bewildered manner; his features expressed deep agony, I read upon his careworn face the violent struggle which tore his heart.Without doubt he was resisting with all his st
- 113 "Stay, my lord; I see with pain the increasing sway which these regrets, as fruitless as cruel, have upon your mind."After a pause, Rudolph said to Murphy: "I can now make a confession to you, my old friend. I love--yes, I love pa.s.sionate
- 114 "Oh! my lord." "What is it?" "Will your royal highness pardon me for informing you so suddenly of an event so fatal, so unlooked for, so-- "The countess is dead?" "No, my lord, but her life is despaired of; she has
- 115 Mysteries of Paris.by Eugene Sue.VOLUME THREE [Ill.u.s.tration: THE RECITATION]PART III.NIGHT.CHAPTER I.IN THE NOTARY'S OFFICE.Brain, or heart of the land, which you will, as large cities are, Paris may claim to have nerves, muscles, and arteries cen
- 116 "It is, perhaps, from penitence, that he gives us forty sous for our breakfast.""The fact is, he must be crazy.""Or sick.""I think for the last two or three days he has been quite wild.""Not that we see him so
- 117 "We can talk just as well with our mouths full.""A thousand times better," said the office-boy.Chalamel was carving the turkey, and he said to the princ.i.p.al clerk: "What reason have you for thinking that the governor is crazy?&
- 118 "The fact is, they have worked there for three days consecutively.""And then one evening they brought some furniture here in a covered cart.""I give it up! as sung the swan of Cambrai.""It is perhaps remorse for having i
- 119 We repeat, no sentiment of suspicion came to counterbalance in his mind the sudden, irresistible impression which he had experienced at the sight of Cecily. He seized, with delight, the occasion to receive into his solitary dwelling the pretended niece of
- 120 Impregnated with a subtle and quick poison, the least wound from this poniard was mortal.Jacques Ferrand, having one day doubted the dangerous properties of this weapon, the Creole made before him an experiment _in anima vita_, that is to say, on the unfo
- 121 cried Cecily, in a sardonic and contemptuous tone; he does nothing but groan and lament, and has been for ten days shut up alone with a young woman, in a deserted house.""But this woman despises me--is armed--is locked!" cried the notary in
- 122 "O! death--death to him you love so much, to whom you have addressed these words!" cried he, shaking the door in a transport of jealousy.Active as a tigress, with one bound Cecily was at the wicket, and, as if she had with difficulty dispelled h
- 123 "I grant all; for if you have this blind confidence in me--do you see, Jacques--it will no longer be the ideal lover of the song I call. It is to you, my tiger, you, that I shall say come--come--come.""Oh, you will be mine. I shall be your
- 124 In the middle of one of the first courts are to be seen some mounds of earth, planted with shrubbery, at the foot of which are already shooting forth some precocious cowslips and snowdrops; a trellised doorway leads to one of the seven or eight exercise-g
- 125 "And the ham?""Also left there, with a quartern loaf. I have added a little surprise you did not expect--half a dozen hard-boiled eggs, and a fine Dutch cheese.""That's what I call acting like a pal! And wine?""Ther
- 126 "Yes, it must be so.""Oh! I forget, while you are out, buy me also a new cap, of plaid velvet, with a ta.s.sel; mine is no longer fit to be worn.""Decidedly--you are joking!""No, Micou. I want a cap of plaid velvet; it i
- 127 PIQUE-VINAIGRE.The prisoner who was placed alongside of Barbillon in the visitor's room, was a man about forty years of age, and of slender make, and with a cunning, intelligent, jovial, and jeering face; he had an enormous mouth, almost entirely wit
- 128 "Well! there is no more prison for me.""How is that?""On account of the burglary in an inhabited house, the lawyer told me, 'It's a safe thing.' I shall have fifteen or twenty years at the galleys and a berth in the
- 129 "Yes, and it is astonis.h.i.+ng how happy the good are! But you have finally got rid of that scoundrel of a husband?""I hope so, for he did not leave me until he had sold my bedstead, and the cradle of my two little children. But I think he
- 130 "I will speak to you frankly. I await a person I came to see; having no one to talk with, just now, before this gentleman placed himself between us, without wis.h.i.+ng it, I a.s.sure you, I have heard you talk to your brother of your sorrows, of you
- 131 An agent of the police, one of my friends, knowing that I had for a long time tracked this lord, asked me if I could not put him on the scent. I learned too late, at the time of our last writ, which he had escaped, that he was burrowed in a farm at Arnouv
- 132 "What a singular name!""He is so thin, or, rather, so fleshless, that it is no nickname; I tell you, he is frightful; and with all this, he is provost-marshal of his ward; he is by far the greatest villain of them all. He comes from the gal
- 133 "You a.s.sure me!--you a.s.sure me! I see you blush through the grating. Am I not your little friend, your neighbor? Why do you conceal anything? Be frank, then, with me; tell me all," added the grisette, timidly; for she only waited for an avow
- 134 "Yes, because they were men without care, whom certainly I ought to miss less than you; and, besides, they did not yield themselves to be my acquaintances until I had told them a hundred times that they could be nothing else; while you----you have at
- 135 I will brave the contagion, and will know how to preserve worthy of your love this heart, which belongs to you!""Oh! Germain, how happy I am! if I have done anything for you, how you recompense me!""And then, do you see, although you e
- 136 "Well, then," said Nicholas, "what change is that?""There is this change," replied Skeleton, "that if he has sold us, as Big Cripple says, he shall not escape with a small bleeding.""Very good," said Barbi
- 137 "Then I would kill the first one I could, in order to be guillotined.""But if, instead of condemning the red-handed to death, they condemned them to a solitary cell for life?"Skeleton seemed to be staggered by this reflection. After am
- 138 "On my word, there is no one but Frank could have such ideas.""I proposed, then, my savings as a guarantee to the master locksmith, so that he might give me work. 'I am not a banker, to take money on interest,'said he. 'I do
- 139 "And since Skeleton is so sure of being cut down, it costs him nothing to kill beggars.""I think it cruel to kill this young man!" said Frank."What: what!" cried Skeleton, in an angry tone; "one has no right to pay off a
- 140 The Big Cripple and Frank quickly turned their heads. The bailiff was stupefied, and stood with his mouth open on recognizing him whom he had swindled.Frank, throwing his bread and meat on the bench, with one bound jumped at Boulard, whom he caught by the
- 141 "I am as sure of it as that I see ham! And, then, how the devil would you have him spy?--he is always alone; he speaks to no one, and no one speaks to him; he runs away from us as if we had the cholera. Besides, he will not spy for a long time; he is
- 142 "Here are orchestra stalls! honor to whom honor is due; in the first place the capitalist. Now let those who have paid seat themselves on the benches," added Pique-Vinaigre, gayly, firmly believing that Germain had, thanks to him, no more danger
- 143 "Yes; exactly; why did he not revenge himself in that way?" said Nicholas."What good would that have done him?" said another."Why, to do harm because others harmed him!""No! I can comprehend why the poor little kid liked
- 144 "What a pity that the Alderman had not been there--what a fine dance for Cut-in-half," said Blue Cap; "it is in such times as these that it is good to be strong.""Yes, my son; but, unfortunately, the Alderman was not there! Cut-in
- 145 "'No, no, master!' he stammered."'You see, Alderman,' said Cut-in-half, 'he never has complained. I only wish for his welfare, after all. If Gargousse scratched him the first time, it shall not happen again, I promise yo
- 146 The recital of Pique-Vinaigre was interrupted."Roussel, ahoy!" cried a voice from without; "come then, and eat your soup; four o'clock will strike in ten minutes.""All right! the story is about finished. I'll go. Thank y
- 147 "I should have been murdered, sir. Oh! tell me his name--who is he?""His name I do not know; he is nicknamed the Slasher; he was once in the galleys.""And the crime which brought him here, perhaps, is not serious?""Very
- 148 "You will have a great deal more of the same! To return to my protector: some time since, after a service which he pretended I had rendered him, he procured me a slap-up situation. I have no need to tell you what--it would be too long; in a word, he
- 149 "Then I should have screamed like an eagle, and called for help! But it suited me to do my own cooking myself; to be able to say to M. Rudolph, 'No one but I meddled in the affair. I have defended, and will defend, your young man; be tranquil!&#
- 150 "Well! speak then.""It is a secret.""So much the more reason for telling it.""Your word and honor that you won't mention it?""On the heads of our children, we give it.""And besides, let us rememb
- 151 "I think I have seen the man before.""I think not.""Tell me, gents, have you not also remarked that for some days past, there comes regularly almost every two hours a man with great light mustaches and a military air, who asks the
- 152 My poor friend is always the same; he only finds a solace for his sufferings in doing good.""I do not deserve these praises, have the goodness to dispense with them,"said the notary, dryly, with difficulty concealing his anger. "To the
- 153 "What do you mean to say?" added the notary."And the Morels? this good and virtuous family.""Ah! yes, yes; in truth, I forgot," said Jacques Ferrand, in a hollow voice."Imagine, M. l'Abbe," resumed Polidori, &q
- 154 "M. l'Abbe Dumont, with whom the funds necessary for this undertaking shall be deposited, will form a superior council of supervision, composed of the mayor and the justice of the peace of the ward, who will add to their number the persons whose
- 155 "Oh! I know it but too well.""He believes that to cut off the head of a criminal does not sufficiently repair the evil he has done. With the proofs which he holds, if he were to deliver us to the tribunals, what would be the result? Two cor
- 156 "You think so, sir.""I am sure of it.""I thought so at first; but the a.s.sertions of her ladys.h.i.+p.""Her head, doubtless, has been weakened by illness, and visionaries always believe in their visions.""I ou
- 157 "I have always regarded as sacred the last wishes of the dying, but it appears I have been deceived.""Rea.s.sure yourself," said Sarah, interrupting Rudolph. "I have not deceived you; there remain for me but a few hours to live. P
- 158 "But at this epoch I asked you for her with prayers," cried Rudolph, in a heartrending tone, "and my letters remained unanswered. The only one you wrote me announced her death.""I wished to avenge myself for your contempt by refus
- 159 "No, I do not guess. Oh! leave me, leave me!""The 'unfortunate' was Fleur-de-Marie.""Oh! merciful powers!""And you do not guess who was Fleur-de-Marie, irreproachable mother?""Kill me! oh! kill me!&qu
- 160 "Hush, be quiet, unhappy man!""Oh! there, there!""Jacques, it is death.""Oh! I see her," added Ferrand, his teeth set. "There she is! how handsome she is; how handsome! See her long black hair; it floats in dis
- 161 "Scoundrel! you have stabbed me in the arm; but the wound is slight; you shall not escape me.""Your wound is mortal. It is the poisoned dagger of Cecily which has stabbed you; I always carried it about me; await the effects of the poison.Ah
- 162 "The actress was only two years older, and you see---""She whom the good sisters are watching now, was she an actress?""Oh, yes--what a fate! She had been beautiful as the day. She had plenty of money, equipages, diamonds, but, un
- 163 "When I came to myself I found my two little boys beside me weeping.""And your daughter?""Gone!" cried the poor mother, sobbing convulsively; "yes, gone! My other children told me that their father had struck her, threat
- 164 "Sir, number one died this morning at half-past four.""So late? that surprises me; yesterday morning I would not have given her the day: has the body been claimed?""No, doctor.""So much the better--we can proceed with th
- 165 "Ta, ta, ta; your husband pushed you, and you fell. You set it off very nicely. He has certainly done more than push you; he must have struck you very hard, and what is more, several times. Perhaps, also, he has trampled you under foot. Come, answer!
- 166 "Oh! madame, may G.o.d bless you for what you do," said Saint Remy; "but pardon me for not having told you my name--so much sorrow! so much emotion!--I am the Count de Saint Remy; the husband of Madame de Fermont was my most intimate friend
- 167 "I will wait until she is able to be removed in my carriage. But tell me, sister, among all these unhappy sick, do you not know some who particularly merit my interest and pity, and to whom I can be useful before I leave the hospital?""Oh!
- 168 "But, La Louve," said Fleur-de-Marie, who had perceived the design of her companion too late to prevent its execution, "but, La Louve, you will ruin your shawl.""None of your arguments! the ground is damp," said La Louve, and
- 169 "But there is not a moment to lose," said the marchioness. "I am dying with impatience to take you with me, Fleur-de-Marie; I have brought in my carriage a shawl and a warm cloak; come, come, my child." Then, addressing the count, she
- 170 "I?" said Rudolph, supporting himself on a chair, for he felt his knees giving way under him."I tell your highness, that you are as much disturbed as I am. What is the matter?""Although I should die under the blow, beg Madame d�
- 171 "Oh! my lord, to such n.o.ble words one can only answer by grateful tears,"cried Clemence. Then, composing herself, she added, "My lord, some one comes; it is your child.""Oh! do not refuse me," cried Rudolph, in a supplicati
- 172 "Calm yourself, my lord," said Clemence; "there is, doubtless, no danger.See her cheeks are tinged with color; it is the shock--only the shock.""But hardly convalescent, she will die. Woe is me!"At this moment, David, the bla
- 173 "My lord!" cried Murphy, entering precipitately, "she whom G.o.d has restored to you has recovered her senses. Her first words were, 'My father!' She asks to see you."A few moments after, Lady d'Harville left the mansion
- 174 "Your brother has told you all?" demanded the prince, coldly."All!""Your ambition is satisfied?""It is satisfied.""The clergyman and the witnesses are here.""I know it. One word, my lord.""S
- 175 The lady pressed the hand of Rudolph to her dying lips in an ecstasy of joy and grat.i.tude, and said, "Let the clergyman come in, my friend, and tell him that afterward he must stay. I feel myself very weak."This scene was heart-rending; Rudolp
- 176 Rudolph could not come; he was indisposed; but the tall gentleman came in his place It is only then, my good Louise, that we were informed that your benefactor, that ours, was--guess what? a prince!""A prince?""What do I say, a prince?
- 177 Dr. Herbin, a man of ripe age, had a physiognomy very intellectual and lofty, a look of remarkable sagacity and depth of thought, and a smile of extreme goodness. His naturally harmonious voice became full of kindness when he spoke to the lunatics; thus t
- 178 All the persons who accompanied the doctor recoiled with horror at the sight of the Schoolmaster, for it was he. He was not mad, but he pretended to be both mad and dumb. He had ma.s.sacred La Chouette, not in a fit of madness, but in a fit of fever, such
- 179 Thanks to repose, the salutary rules and comforts with which he was surrounded, the features of Morel were no longer pale, ghastly, and wrinkled by an unhealthy meagerness; his full face, slightly colored, announced the return of health; but a melancholy
- 180 "Would not one say that this was one of the families pursued by a fatality?The father died upon the scaffold; one son is in the galleys; another, also condemned to death, has lately escaped. The eldest son, and two younger children only, have escaped thi
- 181 "Ay! mother, it is frightful; but I warned you of it, alas!--I told you."The widow bit her pale lips with rage; her son did not comprehend her; she resumed: "They are going to kill us, as they killed your father.""Alas! I can do nothing--it is finish
- 182 "Sir," said the veteran to Martial, approaching him with interest, "do not remain here. Come, come."Martial, stupefied, with horror and alarm, mechanically followed the soldier. Two of the a.s.sistants had carried the wretched Calabash to the other ch
- 183 "Well, what then?"The Slasher again remained silent; then he replied, struggling to preserve his calmness, "Hold, Martial; I know that you will laugh at me; but I wish to tell you all, so that, if anything should happen to me, this at least will prove
- 184 Although formerly he had a.s.sociated with the degraded cla.s.ses to which this mob belonged, the Slasher, on again finding himself among them, felt invincible disgust. Crowded, by the reflux of the mob, against the wall of one of the wine shops, which sw
- 185 "Father, take care!" cried Fleur-de-Marie, throwing her arms around Rudolph's neck."Is it you, then, who are the lord?" said the Skeleton, thrusting his hideous head into the carriage.At this insolence, Rudolph would have given way to the natural vio
- 186 PRINCE HENRY D'HERKAUSEN-OLDENZAAL TO COUNT MAXIMILIAN KAMINETN."OLDENZAAL, August 23d, 1841.I have just returned from Gerolstein, where I pa.s.sed three months with the grand duke and his family. I expected to have found a letter announcing your arriva
- 187 The princess had scarcely looked at me for a second, but that look made me feel the most violent, the most profound emotion; I felt my cheeks on fire; I cast down my eyes, and remained some minutes without daring to raise them again toward the princess. W
- 188 Every day pa.s.sed like a dream: my cousin gradually came to treat me with a true sisterly familiarity; she did not conceal from me the pleasure that she felt in seeing me; she confided to me all that interested her. Two or three times she begged me to ac
- 189 "Let your highness feel no uneasiness on that point; Fraulein Harneim has begged me to take her place to-day; to-morrow she will have the honor of resuming her service of your highness, who will, perhaps excuse the change.""Certainly, for I
- 190 "Oh, it is so much the worse for you, darling, that it is so long since my heart has poured forth. Think, then, how, with my fear of awakening in you the remembrances of the past which I wish to annihilate, and that I will forever annihilate in your
- 191 "Oh! I understand all," cried Rudolph; "there is no longer any hope for her.""I hope for the future, my father, and this hope gives me strength to speak to you thus.""And what can you hope for the future, my poor child,
- 192 "New causes of fear!""For you.""For me?""You have confessed to us but half your troubles, my poor child.""Be so kind as to explain yourself, my father," said Fleur-de-Marie, blus.h.i.+ng."Now I can do
- 193 "Ah! dear father, pity, pity!""But, as a man of honor, I thought of the sad past life of my child. Thus, far from encouraging the hopes of Henry, I gave him, in several conversations, advice absolutely contradictory from what he would have
- 194 Besides, to satisfy the just and severe demands of the world, will satisfy myself; and I am grateful to G.o.d, with all the power of my soul, when I think that _He alone_ can offer to your daughter an asylum and position worthy of her and of you; a positi
- 195 "Such a high dignity is not made for me, holy mother.""But the voices of your sisters call you to it.""Permit me, holy mother, to make here on my knees a solemn confession; my sisters will see, and you also, holy mother, that the most humble conditio
- 196 When his daughter had yielded up her last sigh, my lord did not say a word; his calmness was frightful; he closed the eyes of the princess, kissed her forehead again and again, took piously the remains of the little rose-bush, and left the cell. "I f