The Wolf-Leader
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Dumas Alexandre. The Wolf-Leader
INTRODUCTION
INTRODUCTION. WHO MOCQUET WAS, AND HOW THIS TALE BECAME KNOWN TO THE NARRATOR
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CHAPTER I. THE GRAND MASTER OF HIS HIGHNESS’ WOLF HOUNDS
CHAPTER II. THE SEIGNEUR JEAN AND THE SABOT-MAKER
CHAPTER III. AGNELETTE
CHAPTER IV. THE BLACK WOLF
CHAPTER V. THE PACT WITH SATAN
CHAPTER VI. THE BEDEVILLED HAIR
CHAPTER VII. THE BOY AT THE MILL
CHAPTER VIII. THIBAULT’S WHISHES
CHAPTER IX. THE WOLF-LEADER
CHAPTER X. MAITRE MAGLOIRE
CHAPTER XI. DAVID AND GOLIATH
CHAPTER XII. WOLVES IN THE SHEEP FOLD
CHAPTER XIII. Where it is demonstrated that a woman never speaks more eloquently than when she holds her tongue
CHAPTER XIV. A VILLAGE WEDDING
CHAPTER XV. THE LORD OF VAUPARFOND
CHAPTER XVI. MY LADY’S LADY
CHAPTER XVII. THE BARON DE MONT-GOBERT
CHAPTER XVIII. DEATH AND RESURRECTION
CHAPTER XIX. THE DEAD AND THE LIVING
CHAPTER XX. TRUE TO TRYST
CHAPTER XXI. THE GENIUS OF EVIL
CHAPTER XXII. THIBAULT’S LAST WISH
CHAPTER XXIII. THE ANNIVERSARY
CHAPTER XXIV. HUNTING DOWN THE WERE-WOLF
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WHY, I ask myself, during those first twenty years of my literary life, from 1827 to 1847, did I so rarely turn my eyes and thoughts towards the little town where I was born, towards the woods amid which it lies embowered, and the villages that cluster round it? How was it that during all that time the world of my youth seemed to me to have disappeared, as if hidden behind a cloud, whilst the future which lay before me shone clear and resplendent, like those magic islands which Columbus and his companions mistook for baskets of flowers floating on the sea?
Alas! simply because during the first twenty years of our life, we have Hope for our guide, and during the last twenty, Reality.
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“Nay, Madame, it is with him, as with dogs of breed; his father was a sportsman, he is a sportsman, and his son will be a sportsman after him; you must make up your mind to that.”
“And supposing some harm should come to him?”
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