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Edmond About. The Man With The Broken Ear
The Man With The Broken Ear
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I
WHEREIN THEY KILL THE FATTED CALF TO CELEBRATE THE RETURN OF A FRUGAL SON
CHAPTER II
UNPACKING BY CANDLE-LIGHT
CHAPTER III
THE CRIME OF THE LEARNED PROFESSOR MEISER
CHAPTER IV
THE VICTIM
CHAPTER V
DREAMS OF LOVE, AND OTHER DREAMS
CHAPTER VI
A YOUNG GIRL'S CAPRICE
CHAPTER VII
PROFESSOR MEISER'S WILL IN FAVOR OF THE DESICCATED COLONEL
CHAPTER VIII
HOW NICHOLAS MEISER, NEPHEW OF JOHN MEISER, EXECUTED HIS UNCLE'S WILL
CHAPTER IX
CONSIDERABLE OF A DISTURBANCE IN FONTAINEBLEAU
CHAPTER X
HALLELUJAH!
CHAPTER XI
WHEREIN COLONEL FOUGAS LEARNS SOME NEWS WHICH WILL APPEAR OLD TO MY READERS
CHAPTER XII
THE CONVALESCENT'S FIRST MEAL
CHAPTER XIII
HISTORY OF COLONEL FOUGAS, RELATED BY HIMSELF
CHAPTER XIV
THE GAME OF LOVE AND WAR
CHAPTER XV
IN WHICH THE READER WILL SEE THAT IT IS NOT FAR FROM THE CAPITAL TO THE TARPEIAN ROCK
CHAPTER XVI
THE MEMORABLE INTERVIEW BETWEEN COLONEL FOUGAS AND HIS MAJESTY THE EMPEROR OF THE FRENCH
CHAPTER XVII
WHEREIN HERR NICHOLAS MEISER, ONE OF THE SOLID MEN OF DANTZIC, RECEIVES AN UNWELCOME VISIT
CHAPTER XVIII
THE COLONEL TRIES TO RELIEVE HIMSELF OF A MILLION WHICH INCUMBERS HIM
CHAPTER XIX
HE SEEKS AND BESTOWS THE HAND OF CLEMENTINE
CHAPTER XX
A THUNDERBOLT FROM A CLEAR SKY
FINIS
NOTES TO THE MAN WITH THE BROKEN EAR
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Edmond About
Published by Good Press, 2019
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"The duration of our existence is very much too brief. That is a fact which no man can contradict. We know that in a hundred years, not one of the nine or ten persons assembled in this house will be living on the face of the earth. Is not this a deplorable fact?"
Mlle. Sambucco heaved a heavy sigh, and Leon continued:
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