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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
- 201 CHAPTER XXIII. THE POISONER.It is necessary to go back a little before relating the adventure of Father d'Aigrigny, whose cry of distress made so deep an impression upon Morok just at the moment of Jacques Rennepont's death. We have said that th
- 202 "Oh! only hear the wretch!" cried the mob, pressing closer to him; "he has confessed--he has confessed!""He has betrayed himself!"(40) "He said, 'to drink that would be death!'""But listen to me,"
- 203 "The poisoner is here, hid in some corner," cried the quarryman. "We must force this parson to give us back the villain.""He shall answer for him!""He took him into the church.""He shall pay for both, if we do
- 204 There is a singular variableness in the mind of a crowd, susceptible alike to good or evil impressions. At the heart-piercing cry of Gabriel, all these people, who, a moment before, had demanded, with loud uproar, the ma.s.sacre of this man, felt touched
- 205 Cardinal Malipieri, whom we saw a.s.sisting at the sort of council held at the Princess de Saint-Dizier's, now on his way to Rodin's apartment, was dressed as a layman, but enveloped in an ample pelisse of puce-colored satin, which exhaled a str
- 206 It was thus with the Jesuit. The unshaken firmness of his character, the formidable tenacity of his will (for the will has sometimes a mysterious and almost terrific power), aiding the skillful treatment of Dr.Baleinier, had saved him from the pestilence
- 207 "I deny nothing," murmured Rodin, with difficulty. "Only leave me alone!""Then heaven inspires you," said the cardinal, with a sigh of satisfaction; and, thinking he had nearly attained his object, he resumed, "Listen to
- 208 added the reverend father, angrily, "during the three days that I have not been able to visit the pavilion, one of my servants must have been bought over. There is one of them, a man blind of one eye, whom I have always suspected--the wretch! But no:
- 209 The doctor read these words aloud, and the cardinal and Father d'Aigrigny looked at each other in admiration of this dauntless courage."Reverend father," said Dr. Baleinier, "you must lie down."Rodin wrote: "Get everything re
- 210 And yet on the sides of his chest were four large, bleeding wounds--so violent had been the first singe. As he again extended himself on the bed of torture, Rodin made a sign that he wished to write. The doctor gave him the pen, and he wrote as follows, b
- 211 "Alas! this terrible shame which kills you, my poor Cephyse, because you have a heart, would have been averted, had I seen Mdlle. de Cardoville, or had she but answered the letter which I asked leave to write to her at the porter's lodge. But he
- 212 "Now," said Mother Bunch, "now for the fire!"She knelt down before the little chafing-dish, filled with charcoal. But Cephyse took hold of her under the arm, and obliged her to rise again, saying to her, "Let me light the fire--th
- 213 "Dead!" she murmured in terror. "Dead before me!--Perhaps it is that I am the strongest. Ah! it begins--fortunately--like her, I see everything dark-blue--I suffer--what happiness!--I can scarcely breathe. Sister!"she added, as she thr
- 214 "She herself," answered Adrienne, bitterly; "but, after all, we must pity as well as blame her. She was forced to obey by a terrible necessity, and her confession and repentance secured my pardon before her death.""Then she is dea
- 215 "Your love! No, no; be satisfied. Only think of the happiness of again seeing your good and worthy brother.""Ah, lady! may he never know what caused me so much shame, that I was like to die of it. Thank G.o.d, he is not aware of it!"&q
- 216 Luckily, the disfigured remains of the Baccha.n.a.l Queen had been carried into Mother a.r.s.ene's subterraneous shop, so that the crowd of spectators, always attracted by any fatal event, had a.s.sembled in front of the house; and Rose-Pompon, meeti
- 217 "But, madame, he lives here; the room belongs to him."In fact, Philemon, probably growing tired of the little effect produced by his two ornithological imitations, turned the key in the lock, and finding himself unable to open the door, said in
- 218 "Oh, my friend!" cried the girl, interrupting Agricola, with tears of joy: "I cannot tell you what I feel, when I hear you call me Magdalen.It is so sweet, so soothing, that my heart expands with delight.""Poor girl! how dreadfull
- 219 So saying, he began to walk up and down, by the side of the wall in which was the little door. Presently he heard the distant sound of wheels, which soon came nearer and nearer, and a carriage, rapidly ascending the slope, stopped on the other side of the
- 220 But where is the coffin?' 'Behind the great tomb of black marble; I have hidden it there. So make haste; for, in the confusion, nothing will be noticed. You have paid me well, and I wish you to succeed in what you require.'""And w
- 221 "My lord, this great good fortune does not astonish me. What have I always told you? Do not despair; feign a violent pa.s.sion for some other woman, and then this proud young lady--"At these words Djalma looked at the half-caste with so piercing
- 222 CHAPTER XL. ANXIETY.By a singular coincidence of ideas, Adrienne, like Djalma, had wished to be dressed exactly in the same costume as at their interview in the house in the Rue Blanche. For the site of this solemn meeting, so important to her future happ
- 223 Djalma made no reply. A dark cloud pa.s.sed over his fine countenance, and, for a second, his features a.s.sumed so menacing an expression, that Adrienne was terrified at the effect produced by her words. But this violent agitation soon pa.s.sed away, and
- 224 "Yes, sir.""And who is M. Rodin?""A good old gentleman, who is just recovering from a long illness, that almost carried him off. Lately, he has been getting better, but he is still so weak and melancholy, that it makes one sad to
- 225 "I remember hearing a very vague account, some time ago, of the motives of his conversion.""There is, mark you, no more striking an example of the power of prayer, and of the state of almost divine ecstasy, to which it may lead a religious
- 226 About ten minutes after this scene, a dozen robust men with frank, open countenances, led by Agricola, entered the Rue de Vaugirard, and advanced joyously towards the house of the reverend fathers. It was a deputation from the former workmen of M. Hardy.
- 227 "Who is there?" said Dagobert. There was no answer, but the person knocked again. Losing patience, the soldier went hastily to open it, and saw the servant's stupid face."Why don't you answer, when I ask who knocks!" said the
- 228 Then seeing the astonished look of Agricola, the soldier, unable to restrain his emotion, threw himself into the arms of his son, exclaiming with a choking voice: "I can hold out no longer. My heart is too full. I must speak; and whom shall I trust i
- 229 "I think of the Golden City of our dreams," replied Rose, almost in a whisper, after another short silence.Blanche understood the bitterness of these words. Without speaking, she threw herself on her sister's neck, and wept. Poor girls! the
- 230 "Oh! kind heaven!" said Blanche, growing pale, as she stopped involuntarily. "It is to Dagobert that he is talking so loud.""What can be the matter--to make our father speak to him in that way?""Alas! some great misfortu
- 231 "You take their part--that is natural--they love you better than they do me," said the marshal, with growing bitterness. Dagobert felt himself so painfully affected, that he looked at the marshal without answering."Yes!" continued the
- 232 "Show you, dear father, all the store of love we were heaping up in our hearts--so sad, alas! that we could not spend it upon you?""Tell you aloud all that we think in secret?""Yes--you may do so--you may do so," said Marshal
- 233 For the first time, she feels an unconquerable sense of la.s.situde. For the first time, her feet begin to fail her. For the first time, she, who traversed, with firm and equal footsteps, the moving lava of torrid deserts, while whole caravans were buried
- 234 "Perhaps then,--in the new condition of life to which she would be reduced, we might find means to effect her conversion," said Rodin, with a strange and hideous smile; "until now, since she has been so fatally brought in contact with the O
- 235 "And no doubt heaven would hear your prayers," said Rodin, coldly, satisfied with the trial to which he had just put him. "Besides, you are now warned, and it is not very probable," added he, with a grim smile, "that Marshal Simon will ever return to
- 236 "It is not our fault. Our dear Augustine has not yet been to call us. We are waiting for her.""Oh! there it is," said Dagobert to himself, his features once more a.s.suming an expression of anxiety. Then he returned aloud, in a tone of some embarra.s.
- 237 "Be quiet, sister!" said Blanche, laughing. "Dagobert will not keep our secret.""He!""Will you keep it for us, Dagobert?""I tell you what," said the soldier, more and more embarra.s.sed; "you had better not tell it to me.""What! can you keep
- 238 "Well, now nothing prevents you--so file off!""Certainly, I will file off, if you wish it, my dear sir though I think I have some reason to be surprised at such a reception.""It is no reception at all--so begone!""I had come, my dear sir to speak t
- 239 Two days had elapsed since Rodin's visit to Marshal Simon's daughters.Shortly after he had been expelled, the Princess de Saint-Dizier had entered to see them, under the cloak of being a house-to-house visitor to collect funds for the cholera sufferers.
- 240 "They are really charming," said the man, looking after the two sisters, who soon disappeared from his view. "It would be a great pity if--"He was unable to finish. A frightful tumult, mingled with cries of alarm and horror, rose suddenly from the adj
- 241 "Sister, we are perhaps going to die.""Let it only be together!""And our poor father?""And Dagobert?""Sister, our dream has come true!" cried Rose, almost deliriously, as she threw her arms round Blanche's neck. "Look! look! the Angel Gabriel
- 242 "There you are again, with your lady-ing," said Adrienne, in a tone of gentle reproach."Well, then, Adrienne," resumed Mother Bunch, "I think it would be a charming picture, for you are dressed, as usual with perfect taste.""But am I not better dre
- 243 Recovering from her first amazement, Adrienne replied, with a calm smile, which checked the joy of the princess: "Well, I confess frankly, madame, that you have surprised me; I expected from you one of those black pieces of malignity, one of those well-l
- 244 'Then, almost beside himself, the Asiatic fell prostrate at the feet of the maiden, and exclaimed, in a supplicating voice: "Mercy! my courage fails me. Have pity on me! do not talk thus. Oh, that day! what years of my life would I not give to hasten it
- 245 "In the next room, father.""Beg him to walk in, and leave us," said the other.A second after, Father Caboccini of Rome entered the room and was left alone with Rodin.CHAPTER LXII. TO A SOCIUS, A SOCIUS AND A HALF.The Reverend Father Ca
- 246 Djalma's brow had darkened, as he listened. Having kept inviolable the secret of the various incidents of his pa.s.sion for Mdlle. de Cardoville, he could not but see in these words a quite involuntary allusion to the delays and refusals of Adrienne.
- 247 "No, no," replied the half-caste, with an accent of repressed rage. "It is not enough. The nearer the moment approaches, the more I feel I must have blood.""Listen to me--""My lord, have pity on me! I was a coward to dra
- 248 He rose from the ground, and drew from his girdle Faringhea's b.l.o.o.d.y dagger; then, taking the little phial from the hilt, he threw the blood stained blade upon the ermine carpet, the immaculate whiteness of which was thus slightly stained with r
- 249 "They wished to make us miserable. We pity them. Our felicity shall be the envy of the world!""Adrienne--bethink you--""Oh! I have all my senses about me. Listen to me, my adored! I now understand it all. Falling into a snare, whi
- 250 "At last!" cried the marshal, as their blades were about to cross.But once more reflection came to damp the fire of the Jesuit. He remembered how this hazardous duel would gratify the wishes of Rodin, whose fate was in his hands, and whom he hat
- 251 "Bowanee makes corpses which rot in the ground. The Society makes corpses which walk about.""Ah, yes! Perinde ac cadaver--they were the last words of our great saint, Ignatius de Loyola. But who is this Bowanee?""Bowanee is to the
- 252 "Very good," said the Jew.Stopping in the midst of a corridor, he pointed with the hand in which he held the lamp to a large door from which streamed a faint light. In spite of his growing surprise. Rodin entered resolutely, followed by Father C
- 253 They came to his a.s.sistance. Quick steps were heard upon the stairs, and Dr. Baleinier, followed by the Princess de Saint-Dizier, appeared at the entrance of the Hall of Mourning. The princess had learned vaguely that morning the death of Father d'Aigr
- 254 "Die in peace, my sister! The great day has dawned--the sun is rising--behold!" "Blessed be G.o.d!" "Blessed be G.o.d!" And at the moment when those two voices ceased forever, the sun rose radiant and dazzling, and deluged th