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THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS

ENVY AND INDOLENCE

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The Dagobert Edition

THE SEVEN
CARDINAL SINS

_In Five Volumes_

By
Eugene Sue

INDOLENCE--ENVY

Illustrated

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New York and Boston
H. M. Caldwell Company
Publishers

_Copyright, 1899_
BY FRANCIS A. NICCOLLS & CO.




FREDERICK BASTIEN




LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.


    ENVY.

                                              PAGE

"'WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?'"         _Frontispiece_

"THE PROCESSION BEGAN"                          70

"HE BROUGHT HIS GUN TO HIS SHOULDER"           118

"SEIZING THE PROW OF THE LITTLE BOAT"          230

"SHE SAW HER HUSBAND"                          321


    INDOLENCE.

"'HERE IS THE LETTER; READ IT, MONSIEUR'"      292

"FLORENCE WAS SLUMBERING IN GRACEFUL ABANDON"  370




ENVY.




CHAPTER I.


In the year 1828 any tourist who was on his way from Blois to the little
town of Pont Brillant to visit--as travellers seldom fail to do--the
famous castle of that name, the magnificent feudal abode of the
Marquises Pont Brillant, would have been obliged to pass a farmhouse
standing near the edge of the road, about two miles from the chateau.

If this lonely dwelling attracted the attention of