The Seven Cardinal Sins: Envy and Indolence
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Эжен Сю. The Seven Cardinal Sins: Envy and Indolence
ENVY
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
CHAPTER X
CHAPTER XI
CHAPTER XII
CHAPTER XIII
CHAPTER XIV
CHAPTER XV
CHAPTER XVI
CHAPTER XVII
CHAPTER XVIII
CHAPTER XIX
CHAPTER XX
CHAPTER XXI
CHAPTER XXII
CHAPTER XXIII
CHAPTER XXIV
CHAPTER XXV
CHAPTER XXVI
CHAPTER XXVII
CHAPTER XXVIII
CHAPTER XXIX
CHAPTER XXX
CHAPTER XXXI
CHAPTER XXXII
CHAPTER XXXIII
CHAPTER XXXIV
CHAPTER XXXV
CHAPTER XXXVI
CHAPTER XXXVII
CHAPTER XXXVIII
CHAPTER XXXIX
CHAPTER XL
CHAPTER XLI
CHAPTER XLII
EPILOGUE
INDOLENCE
CHAPTER I. A CHARMING IDLER
CHAPTER II. A FRIEND IN NEED
CHAPTER III. A CONFERENCE
CHAPTER IV. THE CONFESSION
CHAPTER V. COUNTERPARTS
CHAPTER VI. CONNUBIAL INFELICITIES
CHAPTER VII. FOUR YEARS LATER
CHAPTER VIII. ANOTHER SEARCH
CHAPTER IX. A STRANGE MEETING
CHAPTER X. CONTRADICTIONS
CHAPTER XI. NEAR NEIGHBOURS
CHAPTER XII. A VAIN PURSUIT
CHAPTER XIII. TRAVEL UNDER DIFFICULTIES
CHAPTER XIV. VALENTINE'S STORY
CHAPTER XV. TIDINGS FROM FLORENCE
CHAPTER XVI. AN IDLER'S PARADISE
CHAPTER XVII. IN CHANGE, UNCHANGED
CHAPTER XVIII. THE STRONGEST OF INCENTIVES
CHAPTER XIX. PAST STRUGGLES
CHAPTER XX. CONCLUSION
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IN the year 1828 any tourist who was on his way from Blois to the little town of Pont Brillant to visit – as travellers seldom fail to do – the famous castle of that name, the magnificent feudal abode of the Marquises Pont Brillant, would have been obliged to pass a farmhouse standing near the edge of the road, about two miles from the château.
If this lonely dwelling attracted the attention of the traveller, he would have been almost certain to have regarded it with mingled melancholy and disgust as one of the too numerous specimens of hideous rural architecture in France, even when these habitations belong to persons possessed of a competence. This establishment consisted of a large barn and storehouse, with two long wings in the rear. The interior of the sort of parallelogram thus formed served as a courtyard, and was filled with piles of manure rotting in pools of stagnant water, for cow, horse, and sheep stables all opened into this enclosure, where all sorts of domestic animals, from poultry to hogs, were scratching and rooting.
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"I should say that it was. Digging up roots and stumps that have been there three or four centuries."
"Well, while I was walking about with Frederick, we saw a poor, hungry-looking woman, with a little girl about ten years old, as pale and emaciated-looking as her mother, working there on the heath."
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