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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
- 1 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
- 2 "Grant me only till to-morrow, that I may bury my child!" entreated Morel, with a supplicating voice, half stifled with the sobs he endeavored to restrain."No! we have already lost more than an hour waiting here.""This burying still worries you, then
- 3 "No, not now!" exclaimed Morel, placing himself before the door, remembering that Louise was still in ignorance of the death of the little girl; "wait, I must speak to you. Now, about this money?""Stay!" said Malicorne, as he finished counting the g
- 4 "Ah, sir, you have saved our lives! To whom do we owe this unlooked-for succor?""'_To HIM who watches over and protects honest men_,' as our immortal Beranger says."CHAPTER x.x.xIX.MISS DIMPLETON.Louise, the lapidary's daughter, was possessed of re
- 5 "The lawyer's proceedings," said he to him, "ought to rea.s.sure you, as he doubtless ordered your arrest to be revenged for the scorn of your daughter; I have good reason, too, to believe that he is a dishonest man. If he is so," resumed Rudolph, af
- 6 "I have sufficient.""Five hundred francs?""The benefactress of the Morels has given me _carte blanche;_ nothing is to be spared that these poor people require. Is there even a place where better things are to be had than at the Temple?""You will fi
- 7 "And were they in debt?""Not at all! As long as they had money they feasted: when they had none they dined on _water-color_ as Papa Cretu called it.""And did they not think of the future?""Oh, yes, they thought of it; but then our present and futur
- 8 "Yes, I should like nothing better than to pa.s.s my youth with you, taking '_Love forever_!' for my motto.""I believe it: you are not difficult to please.""Where is the harm? We are neighbors.""If we were not neighbors, I should not walk out wit
- 9 "Why, latterly I have seen those poor Morels so unhappy, so very unhappy, that I said to myself: 'There is no sense in having these ugly pieces of money idling in a box, whilst poor people are peris.h.i.+ng of hunger beside you,' so I lent them to More
- 10 "Why, to be sure I do. When I learned that the next room was let, I asked to whom!""Yes, when people meet us together, no doubt, as you say, they will remark: 'What a lucky fellow that Rudolph is!' and will envy me.""So much the better.""They wil
- 11 "But suppose, now, some relation, of whom you have never heard, should die and leave you a fortune--say twelve hundred francs a year--to you, who live upon five hundred francs----""It might prove a good thing--perhaps an evil.""An evil?""I am very
- 12 "I do not know: the lady sold me the things in the presence of the porter; I had not the necessity to ask her name, as what she sold belonged to herself.""But their new abode?""That, also, I do not know.""Perhaps they can inform me at their old lod
- 13 "Alfred, answer me; do not remain dumb--you alarm me," said Mrs.Pipelet; "let us get you up. Why will you think on that beggarly fellow? You know that, when you think of him, it has the same effect on you as when you eat cabbage--it fills up your gizza
- 14 "It is the truth," said Mrs. Pipelet. "If it had not been for the gentleman who now speaks to you, and who is a king of lodgers, for he has saved, by his goodness, poor Morel from prison, the whole family of the lapidary must have died from hunger."Th
- 15 "I knew it!" he cried. "Do you see, sir--she denies it--and never in her life has she lied, I swear to you. Ask every one who knows her, and they will say the same. She lie? she is too proud for that.Besides, the bill was paid by our benefactor. She do
- 16 "The notary?""Yes," said Louise, in a low tone, and looking around her, as if she were afraid of being overheard."Compose yourself," answered Rudolph. "This man is cruel and powerful, but no matter; we will face him. Besides, if I reveal what you a
- 17 "Oh! the wretch, the wretch," cried Rudolph. "Do you know, Morel, what he gave her to drink?" The artisan looked at Rudolph, but made no reply. "The housekeeper, his accomplice, had put in the drink of Louise a soporific--opium, without doubt; the st
- 18 "And you never thought of confiding your sorrows to M. Germain?" asked Rudolph."No, sir; he was also a dupe of M. Ferrand's; he said he was hard and exacting, but he thought him the most honest man in the world. I pa.s.sed these five months in tears,
- 19 Louise continued: "This morning, before any one was up, I came here with the money, but it was not sufficient; and, without your generosity, he would not have escaped the bailiffs. Probably, after my departure, some one had gone to my room and discovered
- 20 This garden, overgrown with wild briers, seemed abandoned; not a single border, not a bed; a cl.u.s.ter of elms, five or six large trees, some acacias and alders, a yellow gra.s.s-plot, walks enc.u.mbered with brambles, and bounded by a high wall. Such wa
- 21 "Well; this famous Viscount de Saint Remy?""Has he not come yet?""No.""His carriage was all ready, and his valet told me that he would come at once; but he did not appear pleased, the domestic said. Oh! that is a fine hotel; one might say it had be
- 22 "And to Countess M'Gregor?""Likewise; here is the answer.""And to Countess d'Orbigny?""She is much obliged; she arrived yesterday from Normandy, she did not expect an answer so soon; here is her letter. I have also been to the Marquis d'Harville
- 23 For a moment astonished, Saint Remy replied, dryly, "What?""Counterfeits," answered the notary, continuing to examine those he held closely."For what purpose do you make this remark to me, Sir?"Jacques Ferrand stopped a moment, looked steadily at th
- 24 "I repeat to yon, sir, that I am incapable of the infamy of which I am accused.""You can tell that to M. Pet.i.t Jean.""But I avow that the absence of Mr. Smith, who has so unworthily taken advantage of my good faith--""Infamous Smith!""The absen
- 25 "Some folly, without doubt! Be inexorable, my dear Puritan," cried Madame d'Orbigny, laughing. "You hear, sir; I cannot act contrary to the advice of so handsome a lady.""My dear M. Ferrand, let us speak seriously of serious things, and you know tha
- 26 "I will write.""Adieu, my worthy and good counselor.""Ah! you people of the world do not know how disagreeable it is to take charge of such deposits--the responsibility which bears on us. I tell you there is nothing more detestable than this fine rep
- 27 "But, who is wronged by it? My sister and the person she desires to marry are single; both regret bitterly the child they have lost; to deceive them is to restore to them happiness--life; it is to a.s.sure some forsaken young girl a most happy lot: thus
- 28 "Really?""Why this duel?""Something very serious, which required blood. Just imagine that, in the face of the whole emba.s.sy, M. de Lucenay allowed himself to say to me, to my face, that I had a cough, a complaint that must be very ridiculous.""Yo
- 29 "Eh!" cried Charles, stupefied. "Oh! now don't think, at least, that I--""I think nothing.""But--""This receipt!""Dear sir.""Write; and tell the people who speak to you of my embarra.s.sments how I answer such suspicions.""The fact is, as
- 30 Everything can be managed with money. How much is necessary to terminate these miserable, shuffling tricks?"Jacques Ferrand was completely astounded with this cavalier and deliberate manner of opening the business."They ask a hundred thousand francs,"
- 31 "Speak!""This woman has just been here; she was below just now. She told me she knew it was I who gave up the child.""Malediction! who could have told her? Tournemine is at the galleys.""I denied everything, treating her as a liar. But she maintain
- 32 "Can it be true, Clemence, you can be so generous? But no, no, I cannot believe in so much happiness; I had renounced it forever.""You were wrong, you see.""What a change! Is it a dream? Oh, tell me I am not mistaken.""No, no, you are not mistaken.
- 33 "Since your royal highness requires it," said the marquis, taking the letter from the salver."Certainly. I require you to treat me as a friend."Then turning toward the marchioness, while M. d'Harville broke the seal of this fatal letter, the contents
- 34 "I am rejoiced that you have determined to interest yourself in my little _protegee_. I will now explain our new adventure. I had gone to the Temple with Rigolette, to purchase some furniture designed for the poor people in the garret, when, upon acciden
- 35 "My dear marquis," cried Rudolph, "our enemies are unlucky; thanks to them, we are only the more intimate from the past. You never have more justly appreciated Madame d'Harville: she has never been more devoted to you; acknowledge that we are well ave
- 36 D'Harville entered his cabinet, and wrote the following notes, without any other address than the name of the invited:-- "My Dear * * *--This is a circular; an impromptu affair is in agitation. Lucenay is to come and breakfast with me this morning; he c
- 37 "Truly, you are insatiable," said the marquis; "thus," added he, restraining with great difficulty his emotion, "thus I shall see you no more--to-day!" he hastened to add."Are you vexed that I go out this morning so early?" asked Madame d'Harvill
- 38 "And as you are a magnifico, you--""Lent them! they will be mortgaged on her Arnonville farm--short accounts make long friends. But never mind; to lend in two hours one hundred thousand francs to some one who wants them, is generous and rare. Is it not
- 39 "Poor old man! But have you not lately bought a farm near Val Richer to add to your estate?""Yes, a very good affair that my notary advised.""Who is this rare and precious notary who advises such good things?""M. Jacques Ferrand."At this name a sl
- 40 One of these, a woman of advanced age, of a soft and grave expression, remained alone with Madame d'Harville, in a small room adjoining the office.Madame Armand, the inspectress who had remained alone with Madame d'Harville, possessed to an extreme degr
- 41 CHAPTER XIV.GOUALEUSE AND LOUISE.Before we continue the account of this horrible scene, we must return to the Marchioness d'Harville and Madame Armand, whose conversation had been for a moment interrupted. At the ringing of the bell, the inspectress had
- 42 "Besides, another circ.u.mstance has strengthened my suspicions. Last night, as I made my inspection, I drew near the Goualeuse's bed; she slept profoundly; her face was calm and serene; her thick flaxen hair, half escaping from under her cap, fell in p
- 43 When she begs you, with tears in her eyes, to spare these rags, which she has had so much trouble to collect, it is not for her, but for her child! This poor little cap, which you have made so much fun of, is laughable, perhaps; yet only to look at it mak
- 44 "Why, I am no longer the same since your arrival; no, I have no more courage, strength, or hardihood."Interrupting herself, she pushed up the sleeve of her dress and showed to La Goualeuse her strong white arm, pointing out to her, p.r.i.c.ked in with i
- 45 "And where will you go?""Home; Rue Pierre Lescot. I have my own furnished room.""And Martial!" said La Goualeuse, who hoped to continue the conversation by speaking of an object interesting to her; "you'll be very happy to see him?""Yes; oh, yes
- 46 La Louve shrugged her shoulders."Do you think he would take me for his wife?""Except his poaching, has he ever committed any other culpable action?""No; he is a poacher on the river, as he was in the woods; and he is right. Are not fish, like game, t
- 47 A strange phenomenon had just been occurring in the mind, the soul of this creature. A natural picture of an humble working life, a simple recital, now lighted up by the soft glimmerings of a domestic fireside, gilded by some joyous rays of the sun, refre
- 48 "I am ignorant, madame.""You are ignorant?""He has only made himself known to me by his inexhaustible goodness.Thanks to heaven! I found myself in his way.""Where did you meet him?""One night, in the city, madame," said La Goualeuse, casting dow
- 49 "Yes, madame, on this occasion and on another. This time a struggle ensued between him and La Chouette. Availing himself of his strength, he forced her to throw out of the window the bottle which contained the vitriol. This was the first service he rende
- 50 We will conduct the reader to the house in the Rue du Temple, the day of the suicide of M. d'Harville, about three o'clock in the afternoon.Pipelet, the porter, alone in the lodge, was occupied in mending a boot. The chaste porter was dejected and melan
- 51 Alfred, with his eyes closed, his hands stretched forth, remained immovable, as he had always been accustomed to do in the critical moments of his life. The convulsive oscillations of his hat alone revealed, from time to time, the continued violence of hi
- 52 "No, no; I tell you it is a little sign nailed over your door.""Come, you want to joke.""Not at all; I saw it as I came in. There is written on it in large letters, 'Pipelet and Cabrion, Dealers in Friends.h.i.+p, etc. Apply within.'""That's wri
- 53 "I will return then to-night," said Mrs. Seraphin, much annoyed; "but I have something else to say to you, my dear Mrs. Pipelet. You know what has happened to this wench of a Louise, whom every one thought so virtuous?""Don't speak of it," answered
- 54 "Very well. You will take Cecily yourself to M. Ferrand, without saying anything more to Mrs. Seraphin. As it is twenty years since you have seen your cousin, you will have nothing to answer, except that since her departure for Germany you have received
- 55 Until then, the sight of the misery of the Morels had often afflicted her, but such scenes are too familiar to the poorer cla.s.ses to make any durable impression.After having each day a.s.sisted these unfortunates as much as was in her power, sincerely w
- 56 As soon as she knew he was unfortunate, unjustly accused, and a prisoner, she thought no more of his rivals.With Rigolette it was not yet love; it was a lively, sincere affection, filled with commiseration and resolute devotion: a very new sentiment for h
- 57 "Not at all; we will take a hack.""Really! Oh, how it would amuse me to go in a carriage, if I had not so much sorrow. And I must have sorrow, for this is the first day since I lived here that I have not sung. My birds are all astonished.Poor little th
- 58 "Your face! an aged man, who has so respectable an air, that you'd look as stupid as a goose if one did not know your virtues.""Well, notwithstanding that, when I had respectfully deposed before him my heap of complaints and griefs against this infern
- 59 At this moment some one knocked at the door."Who is there?" demanded Rudolph."I want to speak to Madame Mathieu," answered a hoa.r.s.e and husky voice, with an accent which denoted the speaker to be one of the lowest order. Madame Mathieu was a diamon
- 60 Unfortunately, from the trouble into which she was plunged by this complication of events, and the precipitation of her departure, Clemence forgot to acquaint the prince that she had met Fleur-de-Marie at Saint Lazare.It will be remembered, perhaps, that
- 61 Francois had perfectly understood the gesture of his mother; he jumped up quickly, and with one bound was out of his mother's reach."You want mother to beat you soundly?" cried Calabash, "do you?"The widow, holding the rod in her hand, bit her lips,
- 62 "You always say 'I will' but you never do it, you sly puss. The time I told you to take the five francs from the counter of the grocer at Asnieres, while I kept him busy at the other end of his shop--it was very easy; no one suspects a child--why didn
- 63 "Burette will give at least five hundred francs for the whole," said the widow, after a close examination."Then it must be worth at least fifteen hundred francs," said Nicholas, "but a receiver is as bad as a thief! Bah! I do not know how to cheat. I
- 64 "Yes, that's all! Bras-Rouge is in the game. Yesterday he decoyed the broker by a letter which Barbillon and I took to her on the Boulevard Saint Denis. Bra.s.s-Rouge is a famous fellow! No one suspects him. To make her bite, he has already sold her a d
- 65 "Oh, yes--for if she has the misfortune to come to the island when she comes out of prison," said Calabash, comprehending the intention of Nicholas, "I will box her soundly.""And I'll give her a ducking in the mud, near the hovel at the other end of
- 66 "One man--ten men can't make me afraid! but to be pointed at by everybody as the son and brother of condemned criminals--well, no! I could not stand it. I preferred to go and poach with Pierre the game-seller.""Why did you not remain in your woods?"
- 67 "You told me so the next morning!""Christmas night you were then here?""Yes. Well?""On that night that man, who had much money with him, was killed in this house.""He! Here!""And robbed, and buried in the little wood-house.""It is not true,"
- 68 "Can any one answer for the words of a child? at Paris, above all, where people are so curious and talkative? It is as much to keep them silent as to aid us that I wish to keep them here.""Do they not go to the village and to Paris now? Who prevents th
- 69 "I say, Amandine, if he knew that the other day Calabash made you take that handkerchief from the peddler's pack, when his back was turned!""Oh, Francois, do not speak of that!" said the poor child, whose eyes were filled with tears: "brother Martia
- 70 "He is a madcap!""Oh! yes, so young, and so wicked, Francois!""Tortillard is much younger; and he would be quite as bad, if he had the strength.""Oh! yes, he is very bad. The other day he struck me because I would not play with him.""He struck yo
- 71 "Would you like to go with me away from here--far away?""Oh yes, brother!""Well, in two or three days all three of us leave the island.""How glad I am!" cried Amandine, clapping her hands."But where shall we go to?" asked Francois."You shall se
- 72 "All the same to me, since other children call us already little thieves. Work is too tiresome.""But here they always beat us!""They beat us because we listen more to Martial than to them.""He is so good to us.""He is good, he is good, I do not d
- 73 "Who is that?""Listen, listen! it is Calabash.""What does she say?""She tells them to hold the foot of the ladder steady.""Oh! do you see, it was in taking away the long ladder which was against our window that they made such a noise just now."
- 74 "All well at home?" demanded the receiver, weighing the copper: "your mother and sister are in good health?""Yes, Micou.""The children also?""The children also.""And your nephew Andre, where is he?""Don't speak of it! he was in luck yesterda
- 75 "Must take care of one's self. I have a cousin who keeps a fine hotel in the Rue Saint Honore, while his wife is a mantua-maker, who employs as many as twenty a.s.sistants, either at her shop, or at their own homes.""Say now, old obstinacy, there must
- 76 "I don't know, but you seem to have something the matter with you.""I?""Yes.""You are a fool. I am hungry.""Hungry! it is possible, but I should say that you wish to appear lively, but at the bottom there is something that bites and pinches you-
- 77 "Come, come, no more of such weakness. It is by cheris.h.i.+ng such ideas, it is in listening thus, that one falls really sick. And I have the time, truly! Must I not occupy myself in finding some work for Claire and myself, since this man, who gave us e
- 78 "And if he has received it, my child; of two things choose one: either he is in such a situation that he cannot come to our aid, or he feels no interest for us; then why expose ourselves to a refusal or a humiliation?""Come, courage, mamma, we have one
- 79 "Oh! sir, thank you; give--give me quickly," said Madame de Fermont, pus.h.i.+ng back the table and half opening the door."It is twenty sous, madame," said the fence, showing the letter so impatiently desired."I am going to pay you, sir.""Oh! madam
- 80 CHAPTER XXVII.IN THE RUE DE CHAILLOT.We will precede, by some hours, M. Badinot, who had gone in haste to the Viscount de Saint Remy. This last mentioned person lived in the Rue de Chaillot, occupying a charming little house in this solitary quarter, very
- 81 "And horses!""And good cheer! G.o.defroi, his cook, leaves here a hundred times better than when he came. My lord has given him excellent counsels-- has enormously refined him.""Besides, they say my lord is such a good player.""Admirable! Gaining l
- 82 The porter, instead of replying, examined with much contempt the white beard, the threadbare coat, and the old hat of the stranger, who held in his hand a large cane."M. de Saint Remy?" repeated the count, impatiently, shocked at the impertinent examina
- 83 That history, if the old count had known and related it all, would have run thus. Baron de Ferment's brother, ruined by concealed speculations, had left three hundred thousand francs with Jacques Ferrand. But when the baroness, upon her brother's suicid
- 84 "I know that your son has never had more need of your counsels.""Is he not rich--happy?""Yes; but he does not know mankind. Blindly prodigal, because he is confiding and generous--in everything, everywhere, and always truly n.o.ble. I fear he is abus
- 85 "Oh! she has already tried it: this was to borrow one hundred thousand francs from her husband, and she succeeded; but these are experiments that cannot be tried twice. Let us see, my dear Badinot, until now you have never had any reason to complain of m
- 86 "Ah!" exclaimed Florestan, with suppressed rage; then, feigning profound affliction, he added: "My father, have you no pity--what can I say to you now? I do not seek to deny my faults--I only wish to explain to you the fatal cause of them. Ah, well! ye
- 87 "How much do you and Patterson make?""About forty thousand francs, my lord.""Very pretty! However, so much the better; for, after all, I am satisfied with you, and if I had had a will to make, I should have left this sum to you and Patterson." The v
- 88 Neither the duke nor Clotilde paid any attention to him. Knowing how quickly Madame de Lucenay decided on anything, he imagined that she pushed her audacity and contempt so far that she wished to play the coquette openly and before him with the young duke
- 89 "No, impossible," answered he hastily."By the way, Saint Remy, Madame de Senneval is another one--what do I say, one?--two-whom I would sacrifice willingly; for her husband is also on my list.""What list?""Of those persons whom I would willingly se
- 90 Florestan, alarmed, began to remark the sinister look of his father, and followed all his movements with anxiety. Without being able to explain it, he felt alarmed. "Father, what is the matter?""This morning, on seeing me, your sole thought has been th
- 91 "You are right, sir," said Saint Remy. "As to the victim of the robbery, you can tell him to call at M. Dupont's, banker.""Rue du Richelieu. He is well known," answered the magistrate."At what amount are the stolen diamonds estimated?""At about
- 92 "What do you say, madame?" cried La Goualeuse, rising."Your friends have not forgotten you; they have obtained your liberty.The director has just received the notice.""Can it be possible, madame! Oh! what happiness!" The emotion of Fleur-de-Marie wa
- 93 "Yes, since some time," said Fleur-de-Marie, casting down her eyes."And you come, like me, to see some one in prison?""Yes--I came--I came to see some one," answered Fleur-de-Marie, stammering and blus.h.i.+ng with shame."And you are returning home
- 94 "This little girl would be still more dangerous than we thought," said she to herself. "If I had taken pity on her, what she has just said would render the accident inevitable which will rid us of her.""My good little Goualeuse, since you have such a
- 95 "Oh! madame, do not think it," cried Fleur-de-Marie; "you are sent by them--I have no question to ask--I follow you blindly; only tell me if Madame George is well!""She is perfectly so.""And--M. Rudolph?""Perfectly well also.""You know him, the
- 96 "Bah! he is asleep. Since this morning he has made no noise; and his dog is silent.""Perhaps he has strangled it for food; these two days past they must have been almost mad with hunger up there.""It is their business. Martial may endure all this as
- 97 "Nicholas! do you see them? there, just by that rising ground," cried Calabash, pointing to the other side of the river, where Mrs. Seraphin and Fleur-de-Marie appeared, descending a small path leading to the sh.o.r.e, near a small elevation, on
- 98 Well," said Ferot, interrupting himself, "where are you going to-- where the devil is she running to now?"Believing the life of Martial menaced by the inhabitants of the island, La Louve, overcome with alarm, and transported with rage, list
- 99 La Louve, at the risk of cutting her hand, broke the gla.s.s of a window which she could not open without moving a heavy table."Now I breathe! I breathe! my head is relieved," said Martial, coming quite to himself. Then, as if for the first time
- 100 "What do you mean to say?""I never wish to leave you again. Neither do I wish to leave Francois and Amandine.""Your little brother and sister?""Yes; from this day I must be to them a father--you comprehend. This gives me