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Эжен Сю. Avarice--Anger: Two of the Seven Cardinal Sins
Avarice--Anger: Two of the Seven Cardinal Sins
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THE MILLIONAIRES
AVARICE
CHAPTER I. AN UNFORTUNATE CHOICE
CHAPTER II. A TOUCHING EXAMPLE OF UNSELFISH DEVOTION
CHAPTER III. A SHAMEFUL DECEPTION
CHAPTER IV. THE VOICE OF THE TEMPTER
CHAPTER V. FATHER AND SON
CHAPTER VI. A FATHER'S AMBITION
CHAPTER VII. THE FORGED LETTER
CHAPTER VIII. A STARTLING DISCOVERY
CHAPTER IX. COMMANDANT DE LA MIRAUDIÈRE'S ANTECEDENTS
CHAPTER X. THE MYSTERY EXPLAINED
CHAPTER XI. HIDDEN TREASURE
CHAPTER XII. A VOICE FROM THE GRAVE
CHAPTER XIII. THE MISER EXTOLLED
CHAPTER XIV. PLANS FOR THE FUTURE
CHAPTER XV. MADAME LACOMBE'S UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER
CHAPTER XVI. A CAPRICIOUS BEAUTY
CHAPTER XVII. THE HOTEL SAINT-RAMON
CHAPTER XVIII. A NOVEL ENTERTAINMENT
CHAPTER XIX. A CHANGE OF OWNERS
CHAPTER XX. THE RETURN
CHAPTER XXI. THE AWAKENING
THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
ANGER
CHAPTER I. THE DUEL
CHAPTER II. ANOTHER EBULLITION OF TEMPER
CHAPTER III. THE WARNING
CHAPTER IV "THOSE WHOM THE GODS DESTROY THEY FIRST MAKE MAD."
CHAPTER V. DEADLY ENMITY
CHAPTER VI. A CUNNING SCHEME
CHAPTER VII. HOME PLEASURES
CHAPTER VIII. THE CAPTAIN'S NARRATIVE
CHAPTER IX. CONCLUSION OF THE CAPTAIN'S NARRATIVE
CHAPTER X. SEGOFFIN'S DISSIMULATION
CHAPTER XI. SABINE'S CONFESSION
CHAPTER XII. SUZANNE'S ENLIGHTENMENT
CHAPTER XIII. ONÉSIME'S CONQUEST
CHAPTER XIV. ARGUMENTS FOR AND AGAINST
CHAPTER XV. AN UNWELCOME VISITOR
CHAPTER XVI. SEGOFFIN'S RUSE
CHAPTER XVII. THE VOICE OF THE TEMPTER
CHAPTER XVIII "MY MOTHER'S MURDERER STILL LIVES."
CHAPTER XIX. AFTER THE STORM
CHAPTER XX. THE MIDNIGHT ATTACK
CHAPTER XXI. A LAST APPEAL
CHAPTER XXII. CONCLUSION
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Eugène Sue
Published by Good Press, 2019
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"That is true," said the sick woman, feeling a sort of cruel satisfaction in justifying her irritability by an enumeration of her grievances, "that is true. Many persons may have had a lot like mine, but no one ever had a worse one. Beaten as an apprentice, beaten by my husband until he drank himself to death, I have dragged my ball and chain along for fifty years, without ever having known a single happy day."
"Poor godmother, I understand only too well how much you must have suffered."
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