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The Wandering Jew Novel Chapters
List of most recent chapters published for the The Wandering Jew novel. A total of 254 chapters have been translated and the release date of the last chapter is Apr 02, 2024
Latest Release: Chapter 1 : The Wandering Jew.by Eugene Sue.A NOTE ON THE AUTHOR OF THE WANDERING JEW: EUGENE SUE (1
The Wandering Jew.by Eugene Sue.A NOTE ON THE AUTHOR OF THE WANDERING JEW: EUGENE SUE (1804-1857) Time and again physicians and seamen have made noteworthy reputations as novelists. But it is rare in the annals of literature that a man trained in both pro
- 101 Florine started. A natural impulse of the heart, a desire to be useful to the sempstress, whose mildness and resignation greatly interested her, had led her to make a hasty proposition; she knew at what price would have to be purchased the advantages she
- 102 "It is really pitiable!""She opposes to me an inert resistance. It is in vain for me to speak severely, and tell her that, having no parents or friends, and being absolutely confided to my care, she ought to see with my eyes, hear with my ears, and whe
- 103 The superior appeared pleased at this information, and added, after a moment's reflection: "She appears intelligent?""Very intelligent.""And is absolutely without resources?""Yes, without any.""Is she pious?""She does not practice.""No matte
- 104 "Gracious heaven!" cried the superior, interrupting, and clasping her hands with all the signs of painful astonishment. "Is it possible? you do not practise?""Alas, madame! I tell you that I have no time," answered Mother Bunch, looking disconcerted
- 105 "I perceive it, my dear girl. Remember, then, the name of the Count de Montbron.""The Count de Montbron--I shall not forget.""He is one of my good old friends, and lives on the Place Vendome, No.7.""Place Vendome, No. 7--I shall remember.""M. Agr
- 106 "How so?""She will explain it to you." Although not so nimble as Agricola, Mother Bunch soon came up, and said to the soldier: "M. Dagobert, do not let us remain before this gate. They might open it, and see us; and that would excite suspicion. Let u
- 107 "One minute's patience, father. You cannot doubt, from the precautions they have taken, that they wish to detain these young ladies against their will, and against yours.""Doubt! I am sure of it. To come to that point, they began by turning the head o
- 108 "And the Count de Montbron, to whom Mdlle. de Cardoville begs you to apply," said Mother Bunch, "is a man of influence. Tell him the reasons that make it so important for these young ladies, as well as Mdlle. de Cardoville, to be at liberty this evenin
- 109 "Yes, M. Dagobert; it is half-past eight.""Still an hour and a half," said Dagobert, in a hollow voice. "This,"he added, "is what I saw. As I came along the street, my notice was attracted by a large red placard, at the head of which was a black pa
- 110 "My mother!" cried Agricola, running to Frances."My wife!" cried Dagobert, as he also rose, and advanced to meet the unfortunate woman."On your knees, dear mother!" said Agricola, stooping down to embrace her affectionately. "Get up, I entreat you!
- 111 "I know it, and that's what frightens me; for my poor children are in their hands. But is all lost? Shall I bring myself to give them up without an effort? Oh, no, no! I will not show any weakness--and yet, since your mother told us of these diabolical
- 112 said Dagobert, shrugging his shoulders contemptuously. "Talk of them, and have done with it for, after all, suppose I were to leave my carca.s.s in the convent, would not you remain to your mother? For twenty years, you were accustomed to do without me.
- 113 "Do not cry so, dear mother; you will break my heart," said Agricola, as he raised her with the sempstress's help. "Be comforted! I have exaggerated the danger of my father. By acting prudently, we two may succeed in our enterprise; without much risk-
- 114 "We shall get by that way into the garden, and look immediately for the open paling.""Yes; for on one side of this paling is the wing inhabited by Mdlle.de Cardoville, and on the other that part of the convent in which the general's daughters are conf
- 115 "Shall I push it slowly or suddenly?""Let me manage it," said Agricola; and he opened the gate so quickly, that it creaked very little; still the noise might have been plainly heard, in the silence of the night, during one of the lulls between the squ
- 116 "But let me see!" resumed Adrienne, hastily; "the first story is pretty high. You will find, near the chapel they are building, some long poles belonging to the scaffolding. They may be of use to you.""They will be as good as a ladder, to reach the u
- 117 A serious fraud and injury has therefore been committed, and we are bound to take every means to recover this our right, if not immediately, at least in some future time. Our Society being (for the greater glory of G.o.d and our Holy Father) imperishable,
- 118 Judge of my grief and fear on receipt of the above. I seat instantly for post-horses. My old foreman, whom I esteem and revere (the father of General Simon), hearing that I was going to the south, begged me to take him with me, and to leave him for some d
- 119 "We, too, have the world for our country, brother, our accomplices for our family, and for our queen Bowanee.""I do not know that saint," said Rodin, humbly."It is our Rome," answered the Strangler. "Van Dael speaks to you of those of your Order, w
- 120 "Yes, brother; just as he ran the risk of poisoning Djalma. This morning we set out, leaving your doctor at the inn, plunged in a deep sleep.I was alone in the carriage with Djalma. He smoked like a true Indian; some grains of array-mow, mixed with the t
- 121 CHAPTER XVII. THE HOUSE IN THE RUE SAINT-FRANCOIS.On entering the Rue Saint-Gervais, by the Rue Dore (in the Marais), you would have found yourself, at the epoch of this narrative, directly opposite to an enormously high wall, the stones of which were bla
- 122 Then came the persecution and ruin of M. de Rennepont, whose property was confiscated and given up to the reverend fathers of the Company of Jesus only a few days before his death. Concealed in the retreat he had chosen, therein to put a violent end to hi
- 123 The latter said to the Jew, "You, sir, are the keeper of this house?""Yes, sir," replied Samuel."This is Abbe Gabriel de Rennepont," said Rodin, as he introduced his companion, "one of the descendants of the family of the Renneponts.""Happy to he
- 124 "I know it, father," answered Gabriel, bitterly; "three days after, a poor, submissive, and credulous child, I was already a spy upon my comrades, hearing and remembering their conversation, and reporting it to the superior, who congratulated me on my
- 125 I ran to you, father, to accuse myself of having involuntarily cast my eyes on those nameless pages, which, by mistake, you had placed in my hands.""Remember, also, my dear son," said Father d'Aigrigny, gravely, "that I calmed your scruples, and told
- 126 "It is impossible, my dear son, that you should not be aware that, since the fall of our legitimate sovereigns, our natural protectors, revolutionary impiety becomes daily more and more threatening. We are oppressed with persecutions. I can, therefore, c
- 127 "Sir," said Gabriel, "happen what may, I am as irrevocably engaged by this written promise, which I beg you to keep, father"--and he handed the paper to Father d'Aigrigny "as by the legal doc.u.ment, which I am about to sign," he added, turning to
- 128 CHAPTER XXIII. THE TESTAMENT.When Gabriel, Rodin, and Father d'Aigrigny entered the Red Room, they were differently affected. Gabriel, pale and sad, felt a kind of painful impatience. He was anxious to quit this house, though he had already relieved hims
- 129 At the cry uttered by Gabriel, the notary had stopped reading the testament, and Father d'Aigrigny hastily drew near the young priest. The latter rose trembling from his seat and gazed with increasing stupor at the female portrait.Then he said in a low v
- 130 "'This 13th day of February, 1682, at one o'clock in the afternoon."'MARIUS DE RENNEPONT.'"As the notary had proceeded with the reading of the testament, Gabriel was successively agitated by divers painful impressions. At first, as we have before s
- 131 "But--""All is well," resumed Dagobert, radiant with delight. "You will share with the others--I know you.""But all this property I have irrevocably, made over to another," cried Gabriel, in despair."Made over the property!" cried Dagobert, quit
- 132 "Take care M. l'Abbe," said rather d'Aigrigny; "I would observe that I hold in my hand a written, formal promise.""I know it, sir; you have a written paper, in which I take an oath never to revoke this donation, upon any pretext whatever, and on pa
- 133 These words p.r.o.nounced with conviction and gravity, destroyed the last vague hopes that the representatives of the heirs might till then have entertained. Samuel became paler than usual, and pressed convulsively the hand of Bathsheba, who had drawn nea
- 134 "What do you say, my brave boy?" cried Dagobert, who, in the first tumult of joy, had not exactly understood the meaning of the codicil."All is put off, father!" exclaimed the smith; "the heirs will have three months and a half more to make their cla
- 135 A long acquaintance with Father d'Aigrigny had revealed to him the inferiority of the latter."You threw away your pen," said Father d'Aigrigny to Rodin with extreme deference, "while I was dictating a note for Rome. Will you do me the favor to tell m
- 136 "This ally, who can decimate a population, may carry away with him in the shroud that he drags at his heels, the whole of an accursed race; but even he must respect the life of that great intangible body, which does not perish with the death of its membe
- 137 "Just fancy, little viper's eyes, looking as if they had been bored with a gimlet, in a face as pale as death--so pale, that the lips are white.That's for his appearance. As for his character, the good old man's so polite!--he pulls off his hat so oft
- 138 "Better than that, most rosy and pompous of all Rose-Pom, pons! I am head editor of a religious journal; and as I must make some appearance in so respectable a concern, I ask every month for four weeks in advance, and three days of liberty. On this condi
- 139 So saying, the greengrocer took down an old basket; after throwing into it three or four pieces of turf, a little bundle of wood, and some charcoal, she covered all this fuel with a cabbage leaf; then, going to the further end of the shop, she took from a
- 140 "That will be well."I shall raise the question of the liberty of instruction. The raw liberals will support us. Like fools, they admit us to equal rights; when our privileges, our influence of the confessional, our obedience to Rome, all place us beyond
- 141 "Alas! I do not know her--but a young fellow, that I like excessively--""Jacques Rennepont?""Otherwise called Sleepinbuff. He is now in prison for debt," sighed Rodin. "I saw him yesterday.""You saw him yesterday?--how strange!" said Rose-Pompon
- 142 This was said by Rodin with so much apparent kindness, that Rose-Pompon felt the tears well up to her eyes, and answered with much emotion: "Sir, Cephyse and me are only poor girls; there are many more virtuous in the world; but I venture to say, we have
- 143 "Heavens! and for my sake!""Yes; it would be for you, and what is worse, by you, that they would be condemned.""By me, sir?""Certainly; that is, if you follow up your vengeance against your aunt and Abbe d'Aigrigny--I do not speak of myself, for I
- 144 "Sir," cried M. Baleinier, "permit me to observe, that the manner in which you open this question is an insult to me.""Sir, it is to the lady that I have the honor of addressing myself,"replied M. de Gernande, sternly; "and I am the sole judge of t
- 145 "You? How will you do that?" cried the doctor."That I shall take care not to tell you at present, as you may well suppose," answered Rodin, with an ironical smile, adding with indignation: "But, really, sir, you ought to die for shame, to dare to rai
- 146 "Great G.o.d!" cried the young girl, clasping her hands in horror. "It is fearful. That young prince, who was said to have so n.o.ble and generous a character! But I had sent to Cardoville Castle--""A confidential person, to fetch the prince to Paris
- 147 "But let us return to what concerns you, my dear young lady. On the eve of the 13th of February, the Abbe d'Aigrigny delivered to me a paper in shorthand, and said to me, 'Transcribe this examination; you may add that it is to support the decision of a
- 148 "It is so," replied Adrienne, deeply interested."Your grat.i.tude and favor are then necessarily acquired by those who, poor, laborious, and unknown, have procured for you these marvels of luxury, which you could not do without?""This feeling of grat
- 149 "Believe me, dear," said Adrienne, "there are some sorts of praise which honor, recompense, and encourage; and M. Rodin's is of the number. I know it,--yes, I know it.""Nay, my dear young lady, you must not ascribe to me all the honor of this judgme
- 150 "You strangle me," said the Jesuit, in a stifled voice, as he tried to escape from the soldier."Where are the orphans, since they are not here, and the convent door has been closed against me?" cried Dagobert, in a voice of thunder."Help! help!" gas
- 151 "Now, sir," said Dagobert, in a grave voice, "I declare, in presence of all, that I was wrong to abuse and ill-treat you. I make you my apology for it, sir; and I acknowledge, with joy, that I owe you--much--oh! very much and when I owe, I pay."So say
- 152 After a moment's silence, Rodin cast his looks all around, with well feigned uneasiness, and replied in a whisper: "Once more, madame, do not question me on so fearful a subject. The walls of this house may have ears."Adrienne and Dagobert looked at ea
- 153 According to the skillful tactics of the sons of Loyola, who sometimes deny their own existence, in order to escape from an adversary--and sometimes proclaim with audacity the living power of their organization, in order to intimidate the feeble-R-odin ha
- 154 "General!" said Dagobert, in a firm grave tone, "I returned from Siberia--alone with your two daughters.""And their mother! their mother!" cried Simon, in a voice of despair."I set out with the two orphans the day after her death," said the soldie
- 155 "Of what you will," said Djalma, with careless contempt, as he fixed on the ceiling his eyes, half-veiled with languor. "One thought pursues me--I wish to be diverted from it. Speak to me."Faringhea threw a piercing glance on the count
- 156 CHAPTER XLI. RISING.To explain the arrival of Mdlle. de Cardoville at the garden-door of the house occupied by Djalma, we must cast a retrospective glance at previous events. On leaving Doctor Baleinier's, Mdlle. de Cardoville had gone to take up her
- 157 d'Aigrigny.""Well?""The Abbe d'Aigrigny, she told me, is about forty years of age. He is tall and upright, dresses plainly, but with care; has gray eyes, very large and piercing, thick eyebrows, chestnut-colored hair, a face
- 158 "What then?" resumed Adrienne."This greenhouse, which I had arranged according to your orders, has only one issue--by a door leading into a little lane. The gardener gets in that way every morning, so as not to have to pa.s.s through the ap
- 159 "But suppose there should be danger in avowing this friends.h.i.+p?" said Rodin, very uneasy at the turn the conversation was taking. Djalma eyed the Jesuit with contemptuous astonishment, and made no reply."I understand your silence, my de
- 160 "You will excuse what I have done, dear prince. I expected this morning a very important letter. As it was late in coming to hand, I ordered it to be sent on."A few minutes after, Faringhea returned with the letter, which he delivered to Rodin--
- 161 "But you will return?" said Djalma, striving to restrain his tears. "I shall see you again?""Oh, no! never--never!" said Mdlle. de Cardoville, in a failing voice.Then, profiting by the stupor into which her answer had thrown
- 162 "You must know that, for the last few days, singular things are pa.s.sing in the neighborhood of our factory. First, as we are in Lent, an abbe from Paris (a tall, fine-looking man, they say) has come to preach in the little village of Villiers, whic
- 163 "My lady is not quite well, sir," said Florine, "and receives no one to day. I am sure, that as soon as she is better, she will be quite pleased to see you."Here Mother Bunch returned, and said to Agricola: "If you can come for me
- 164 They are vain, terrestrial things, for which the soul recks nothing, when, radiant, it ascends towards its Creator. Yesterday, Agricola made me read an article in a newspaper, in which violent blame and bitter irony are by turns employed, to attack what t
- 165 "Rodin."CHAPTER XLIX. THE TRYSTING-PLACE OF THE WOLVES.It was a Sunday morning the very day on which Mdlle. de Cardoville had received Rodin's letter with regard to Mother Bunch's disappearance.Two men were talking to together, seated
- 166 "You are travelling for some anonymous society, that trades in musket shots.""Are you a coward?""I burned powder in July, I can tell you--make no mistakes!""You would not mind burning some again?""Just as well
- 167 "Is that your final word?""It is our last word.""Silence!" cried Sleepinbuff, suddenly, as he listened, balancing himself on his tottering legs. "It is like the noise of a crowd not far off." A dull sound was indeed
- 168 "Here's to your health, mates!" said Morok, distributing the bottles."There will be blood at the end of all this," muttered Sleepinbuff, who, in spite of his intoxication, perceived all the danger of these fatal incitements. Indee
- 169 "Alas! yes. Those who have the knowledge, have not the power.""And those who have the power, have neither the knowledge nor the will.""But how does M. Hardy find any advantage in the good he does for you?""I will explain
- 170 "They are coming in a carriage, father, and Dagobert accompanies them.""But what is the matter? you appear full of thought.""Indeed, father," said the marshal, with a somewhat agitated air, "I have serious things to talk
- 171 "Let us still keep in view the speculator from mere interest. 'Here are my workmen, says he, 'in the best possible condition to do a great deal of work. Now what is to be done to obtain large profits? Produce cheaply, and sell dear. But the
- 172 "Have you ever found me indiscreet, my friend?""You, good Marcel! how can you suppose such a thing?" said M. Hardy, in a tone of friendly reproach; "no! but I do not like to tell you of my happiness, till it is complete; and I am
- 173 The horrible discovery made him giddy, and his head swam on his first look down into that abyss of infamy. The loathsome letter dropped from his trembling hands. But soon indignation, rage, and scorn succeeded this moment of despair, and rus.h.i.+ng, pale
- 174 On M. Hardy's learning from the confidential go-between of the lovers, that his mistress had been taken away by her mother, he turned from Rodin and dashed away in a post carriage. At the same moment, as loud as the rattle of the wheels, there arose
- 175 "The Wolves, quarrymen, and stone-cutters, joined on the road by a crowd of people from the neighborhood, and vagabonds from town. Do you not hear them? They are shouting, 'Death to the Devourers!'"The clamor was indeed approaching, an
- 176 "Then, present!--fire!" And, for the second time, a shower of enormous stones poured upon that side of the Common Dwelling-house which was turned towards the fields. A part of these projectiles broke such of the windows as had been spared by the
- 177 "I am too hungry," answered the quarryman.Exasperated by the terror which Angela's danger occasioned him, Agricola redoubled his efforts, when the quarryman suddenly felt his thigh seized by the sharp teeth of a dog, and at the same instant
- 178 "Who is there?" said Rose-Pompon."A friend--the oldest of the old," replied a sonorous, jovial voice."Why do you lock yourself in?""What! is it you, Ninny Moulin?""Yes, my beloved pupil. Open quickly. Time pres
- 179 "And where do you suppose I should find money to buy these wonders?"said Ninny Moulin. "I repeat to you, all this is yours if you will but listen to me!""How is this?" said Rose-Pompon, with the utmost amazement; "is wha
- 180 "True.""Come, then; let us set out!""Bah! after all, they cannot eat me," said Rose-Pompon, resolutely.With a skip and a jump, she went to fetch a rose-colored cap, and, going up to a broken looking-gla.s.s, placed the cap ve
- 181 "My dear M. de Montbron, you have so much penetration, that you may be allowed to fall for once, as now. I am not sad, I have nothing on my mind, and--I am about to utter a very silly piece of impertinence--I have never thought myself so pretty."
- 182 "He loves me then?" cried the young girl, with an accent impossible to describe."He loves you to madness, I tell you; I have seen it."Adrienne seemed overcome with amazement. From pale, she became crimson; as the redness disappeared, h
- 183 "If I had not made up my mind to come here to-day, almost in despair, what would have happened?""I cannot tell; I should perhaps have died, for I am wounded mortally here"--she pressed her hand to her heart. "But what might have b
- 184 "But how?""Come! I must give you the secret of my supernatural power. On returning from your ride, you shall dine with my niece, and we will go together to a very curious spectacle now exhibiting at the Porte-Saint-Martin Theatre. A most ex
- 185 "That is really too much, sir," said Rodin, bowing; "I should be quite contented with the profit.""Your impudent coolness will not deceive me; this is a serious matter,"said the count. "It is impossible that so perfidiou
- 186 She leaned from the carriage-window, and said to the poor child: "Have you a mother, my dear?""No, my lady, I have neither father nor mother.""Who takes care of you?""No one, my lady. They give me nosegays to sell, and I
- 187 "Why, how is the conspiracy going on, in whose honor you make me keep it up all day and all night?""It is working, but the time is not yet come; that is why I wish to have you always at hand, till the great day. Do you complain?""
- 188 Morok shrugged his shoulders, and replied with a sort of feverish ferocity, "Have you ever heard of the fierce pleasure of the gamester, who stakes his honor, his life, upon a card? Well! I too--in these daily exhibitions where my life is at stake--f
- 189 "I should like to know the name--of that nosegay.""Oh!--it's Germigny.""How flattering for the lions and tigers, to attract so fas.h.i.+onable an audience.""Do you notice, gentlemen, how all the women are eye-gla.s.
- 190 "As a work of art," answered Adrienne, "it is certainly very fine.""But see!" said the marchioness; "how impertinent the little creature is!--She is actually staring at us.""Well!" said the marquis; "
- 191 The gloomy aspect of the forest, only half-lighted with a reddish glare, was so effective--the howlings of the panther were so furious--the gestures, att.i.tude, and countenance of Morok were so expressive of terror, that the audience, attentive and tremb
- 192 Begone! begone!--its hand, oh! its icy hand has again laid hold of mine.Have mercy, heaven!""GO ON!""Oh, Lord! the pestilence--the terrible plague--must I carry it into this city?--And my brethren will perish the first--they, who are s
- 193 "Your Eminence may feel convinced that I am Roman in heart and soul; I see no difference between a Gallican and a Turk," said the princess, bravely."The princess is right," said the Belgian bishop: "I will go further, and a.s.sert
- 194 "He will be admitted as usual," said the princess.Since Rodin's arrival Father d'Aigrigny had remained silent; he seemed occupied with bitter thoughts, and with some violent internal struggle.At last, half rising, he said to the prelat
- 195 "Your eyes are very bloodshot, my good father, said the princess."I have looked too closely into my web," answered the Jesuit, with a sinister smile; "and I must look again, to make Father d'Aigrigny, who pretends to be blind, cat
- 196 At every moment, new dismal objects met the view. Sometimes carts pa.s.sed along, filled with coffins, symmetrically piled; they stopped before every house. Men in black and gray garments were in waiting before the door; they held out their hands, and to
- 197 "Here's sport!" exclaimed Ciboule: "the omnibus of the dead will run against the fine coach. Hurrah! the rich folks will smell death."Indeed, the wagon was now directly in front of the carriage, and at a very little distance from
- 198 "And those who are always looking out for other people's places--what an ally they must find in the Cholera!""And how true it will make many vows of constancy!" said Modeste, sentimentally. "How many villains have sworn to a
- 199 The proposition of Ninny Moulin gave a new impetus to the general gayety; the most extravagant remarks were mingled with the sound of kisses, taken or given under the pretext that perhaps there would be no to-morrow, that one must make the most of the pre
- 200 CHAPTER XXII. MEMORIES.The person before whom Ninny Moulin stopped in such extreme astonishment was the Baccha.n.a.l Queen.Pale and wan, with, hair in disorder, hollow cheeks, sunken eyes, and clothed almost in rags, this brilliant and joyous heroine of s