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THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS

AVARICE

[Illustration: "_Axe in hand._"

Original etching by Adrian Marcel.]



Illustrated Cabinet Edition

Avarice--Anger
Two of the Seven Cardinal Sins
By Eugene Sue

Illustrated with Etchings by
Adrian Marcel

Dana Estes & Company
Publishers
Boston

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



Avarice--Anger




CONTENTS.


CHAPTER                                                            PAGE

AVARICE.

I. AN UNFORTUNATE CHOICE                                              13

II. A TOUCHING EXAMPLE OF UNSELFISH DEVOTION                          25

III. A SHAMEFUL DECEPTION                                             36

IV. THE VOICE OF THE TEMPTER                                          46

V. FATHER AND SON                                                     57

VI. A FATHER'S AMBITION                                               65

VII. THE FORGED LETTER                                                72

VIII. A STARTLING DISCOVERY                                           78

IX. COMMANDANT DE LA MIRAUDIERE'S ANTECEDENTS                         86

X. THE MYSTERY EXPLAINED                                              97

XI. HIDDEN TREASURE                                                  106

XII. A VOICE FROM THE GRAVE                                          113

XIII. THE MISER EXTOLLED                                             118

XIV. PLANS FOR THE FUTURE                                            122

XV. MADAME LACOMBE'S UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER                         126

XVI. A CAPRICIOUS BEAUTY                                             132

XVII. THE HOTEL SAINT-RAMON                                          139

XVIII. A NOVEL ENTERTAINMENT                                         146

XIX. A CHANGE OF OWNERS                                              152

XX. THE RETURN                                                       159

XXI. THE AWAKENING                                                   166


ANGER.

I. THE DUEL                                                          177

II. ANOTHER EBULLITION OF TEMPER                                     186

III. THE WARNING                                                     194

IV. "THOSE WHOM THE GODS DESTROY THEY FIRST MAKE MAD"                199

V. DEADLY ENMITY                                                     208

VI. A CUNNING SCHEME                                                 217

VII. HOME PLEASURES                                                  225

VIII. THE CAPTAIN'S NARRATIVE                                        234

IX. CONCLUSION OF THE CAPTAIN'S NARRATIVE                            240

X. SEGOFFIN'S DISSIMULATION                                          248

XI. SABINE'S CONFESSION                                              255

XII. SUZANNE'S ENLIGHTENMENT                                         265

XIII. ONESIME'S CONQUEST                                             271

XIV. ARGUMENTS FOR AND AGAINST                                       279

XV. AN UNWELCOME VISITOR                                             287

XVI. SEGOFFIN'S RUSE                                                 294

XVII. THE VOICE OF THE TEMPTER                                       302

XVIII. "MY MOTHER'S MURDERER STILL LIVES!"                           309

XIX. AFTER THE STORM                                                 316

XX. THE MIDNIGHT ATTACK                                              322

XXI. A LAST APPEAL                                                   329

XXII. CONCLUSION                                                     338




LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.


                                PAGE

"AXE IN HAND"          _Frontispiece_

"'GO AWAY AND LET ME ALONE'"      53

"'MY STAR HAS NOT DESERTED ME'"  155

"SEVERAL MEN RUSHED UPON HIM"    236


Avarice and Anger.




THE MILLIONAIRES




AVARICE.




CHAPTER I.

AN UNFORTUNATE CHOICE.


The narrow street known for many long years as the Charnier des
Innocents (the Charnel-house of the Innocents), near the market, has
always been noted for the large number of scriveners who have
established their booths in this densely populated part of Paris.

One fine morning in the month of May, 18--, a young girl about eighteen
years of age, who was clad in working dress, and whose charming though
melancholy face wore that peculiar pallor which seems to be a sort of
sinister reflection of poverty, was walking thoughtfully down the
Charnier des Innocents. Several times she paused as if in doubt in front
of as many scriveners' booths, but either because the proprietors seemed
too young or too unprepossessing in appearance or too busy, she went
slowly on again.

Seeing, in the doorway of the last booth