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The Wandering Jew, Complete

Chapter 10 THE SURPRISE.

Word Count: 1767    |    Released on: 06/12/2017

and pensive, contemplating the leaves yellowed by time. Dagobert, also plunged in a reverie, th

veral minutes. Taking the leaves from the hand of Blanche, he folded th

ure of greeting him, and remember always the name of the gallant youth, to whom you

ll never forget

return," added Blanche, "we will ask him

to visit your poor mother in Siberia, he had seen the general a month after the events of which you have read, and at a moment when

will this medal b

words engraved upon it?" added R

he 13th of February, 1832, we must be

are we to

able to tell me. All I know is, that this medal came to her from her parents,

id our fat

ig

, was a dressing-case of your mother's, in which was contained this medal. Since that time the general had

then, of great i

erto been miserable. I will entreat of the governor of Siberia permission to go to France with my daughters; it will perhaps be thought I have been sufficiently punished, by fifteen years of exile, and the confiscation of my property. Should they refuse, I will remain here; but they will at

e were one

would be too late. She also gave me a thick letter, to put into the pos

k we shall be at

if we only travel our five leagues a day, and that without accident, we shall scarcely r

condemned to death if he return

e shall w

t to learn. When the traveller quitted him, the gene

hy is

e news must reach India, and your father will certainly come to meet you at Paris, be

w we may hope to see him

name of this trav

or all his kindness and devotion to the general, herself, and the children; but he pressed her hands in his, and said to her

that, Da

did the trav

r in which he pronounced those words str

r!" repeated Ros

are those words

was the tra

eemed to love my husband and my children more-and yet, to judge by the expression of his countenance, one would think that this stranger had never either smiled or wept!' She and I watched him from the door

s it, Da

ur house way, always damp, because of

es

teps remained in the clay, and I saw that he h

he form o

finger seven times on the coverlet of the be

it forms

d it mean,

confounded cross left behind him struck me as a bad omen, for h

death of

heard the gallop of a horse. It was a courier from the governor general of Siberia. He brought us orders to change our residence; within three days we were to join o

hey thus t

the medal and papers to be of use-since, having set out almost immediately, we shall hardly arrive in time at Paris. 'If they had some interest to prevent me and my children from going to France,' said

cted sorrow that was the ca

your large bunches of wild-flowers for your mother, she was already in the last agony, and hardly to be recognized. The cholera had broken out in the village, and that evening five persons died of it. Your mother had only time to hang the medal about your neck, my dear li

ce; he covered his eyes with his hand,

al. Notwithstanding the danger, it was impossible to tear you from your mother's bedside; you remained with her to the last, you closed her eyes, yo

he soldier start from his seat. He grew pale, and cried: "It is Jovial! my horse! What are

ass through the broken panes, unfasten the catch of the window, push it violently open, and throw down the lamp placed on

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1 Chapter 1 MOROK.2 Chapter 2 THE TRAVELLERS.3 Chapter 3 THE ARRIVAL.4 Chapter 4 MOROK and DAGOBERT5 Chapter 5 ROSE AND BLANCHE.6 Chapter 6 THE SECRET.7 Chapter 7 THE TRAVELER.8 Chapter 8 EXTRACTS FROM GENERAL SIMON'S DIARY.9 Chapter 9 THE CAGES.10 Chapter 10 THE SURPRISE.11 Chapter 11 JOVIAL and DEATH.12 Chapter 12 THE BURGOMASTER.13 Chapter 13 THE JUDGEMENT.14 Chapter 14 THE DECISION.15 Chapter 15 THE DESPATCHES.16 Chapter 16 THE ORDERS.17 Chapter 17 THE AJOUPA.18 Chapter 18 THE TATTOOING19 Chapter 19 THE SMUGGLER20 Chapter 20 M. JOSHUA VAN DAEL.21 Chapter 21 THE RUINS OF TCHANDI. To the storm in the middle of the22 Chapter 22 THE AMBUSCADE23 Chapter 23 M. RODIN.24 Chapter 24 THE TEMPEST25 Chapter 25 THE SHIPWRECK.26 Chapter 26 THE DEPARTURE FOR PARIS.27 Chapter 27 DAGOBERT'S WIFE.28 Chapter 28 THE SISTER OF THE BACCHANAL QUEEN.29 Chapter 29 AGRICOLA BAUDOIN.30 Chapter 30 THE RETURN.31 Chapter 31 AGRICOLA AND MOTHER BUNCH.32 Chapter 32 THE AWAKENING.33 Chapter 33 THE PAVILION.34 Chapter 34 ADRIENNE AT HER TOILET.35 Chapter 35 THE INTERVIEW.36 Chapter 36 A FEMALE JESUIT.37 Chapter 37 THE PLOT.38 Chapter 38 ADRIENNE'S ENEMIES.39 Chapter 39 THE SKIRMISH.40 Chapter 40 THE REVOLT41 Chapter 41 TREACHERY.42 Chapter 42 THE SNARE.43 Chapter 43 A FALSE FRIEND.44 Chapter 44 THE MINISTER'S CABINET.45 Chapter 45 THE VISIT.46 Chapter 46 PRESENTIMENTS.47 Chapter 47 THE LETTER.48 Chapter 48 THE CONFESSIONAL49 Chapter 49 MY LORD AND SPOIL-SPORT.50 Chapter 50 APPEARANCES.51 Chapter 51 THE CONVENT.52 Chapter 52 THE INFLUENCE OF A CONFESSOR.53 Chapter 53 THE MASQUERADE.54 Chapter 54 THE CONTRAST.55 Chapter 55 THE CAROUSE.56 Chapter 56 THE FAREWELL57 Chapter 57 FLORINE.58 Chapter 58 MOTHER SAINTE-PERPETUE.59 Chapter 59 THE TEMPTATION.60 Chapter 60 MOTHER BUNCH AND MDLLE. DE CARDOVILLE.61 Chapter 61 THE ENCOUNTERS.62 Chapter 62 THE MEETING.63 Chapter 63 DISCOVERIES.64 Chapter 64 THE PENAL CODE.65 Chapter 65 BURGLARY.66 Chapter 66 THE EVE OF A GREAT DAY.67 Chapter 67 THE THUG.68 Chapter 68 THE TWO BROTHERS OF THE GOOD WORK.69 Chapter 69 THE HOUSE IN THE RUE SAINT-FRANCOIS.70 Chapter 70 DEBIT AND CREDIT.71 Chapter 71 THE HEIR72 Chapter 72 THE RUPTURE.73 Chapter 73 THE CHANGE.74 Chapter 74 THE RED ROOM.75 Chapter 75 THE TESTAMENT.76 Chapter 76 THE LAST STROKE OF NOON.77 Chapter 77 THE DEED OF GIFT.78 Chapter 78 A GOOD GENIUS.79 Chapter 79 THE FIRST LAST, AND THE LAST FIRST.80 Chapter 80 THE STRANGER.81 Chapter 81 THE DEN.82 Chapter 82 AN UNEXPECTED VISIT.83 Chapter 83 FRIENDLY SERVICES.84 Chapter 84 THE ADVICE.85 Chapter 85 THE ACCUSER.86 Chapter 86 FATHER D'AIGRIGNY'S SECRETARY.87 Chapter 87 SYMPATHY.88 Chapter 88 SUSPICIONS.89 Chapter 89 EXCUSES.90 Chapter 90 REVELATIONS.91 Chapter 91 PIERRE SIMON.92 Chapter 92 THE EAST INDIAN IN PARIS.93 Chapter 93 RISING.94 Chapter 94 DOUBTS.95 Chapter 95 THE LETTER. No.9596 Chapter 96 ADRIENNE AND DJALMA.97 Chapter 97 THE CONSULTATION.98 Chapter 98 MOTHER BUNCH'S DIARY.99 Chapter 99 THE DIARY CONTINUED.100 Chapter 100 THE DISCOVERY.