The Invisible Eye: Tales of Terror by Emile Erckmann and Louis Alexandre Chatrian
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Hugh Lamb. The Invisible Eye: Tales of Terror by Emile Erckmann and Louis Alexandre Chatrian
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Dedication
INTRODUCTION
THE INVISIBLE EYE
THE OWL’S EAR
THE WHITE AND THE BLACK
THE BURGOMASTER IN BOTTLE
MY INHERITANCE
THE WILD HUNTSMAN
LEX TALIONIS
THE CRAB SPIDER
THE MYSTERIOUS SKETCH
THE THREE SOULS
A LEGEND OF MARSEILLES
COUSIN ELOF’S DREAM
THE CITIZEN’S WATCH
THE MURDERER’S VIOLIN
THE CHILD-STEALER
THE MAN-WOLF
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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To my wonderful family:
Richard and Maggie
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I saw at his window the traveller who occupied the green chamber at the Boeuf-gras; he was a peasant of Nassau, wearing a three-cornered hat, a scarlet waistcoat, and having a broad laughing countenance. He was tranquilly smoking his pipe, unsuspicious of anything wrong.
About two o’clock Fledermausse came back. The sound of her door opening echoed to the end of the passage. Presently she appeared alone, quite alone in the yard, and seated herself on the lowest step of the gallery-stairs. She placed her basket at her feet and drew from it, first several bunches of herbs, then some vegetables – then a three-cornered hat, a scarlet velvet waistcoat, a pair of plush breeches, and a pair of thick worsted stockings – the complete costume of a peasant of Nassau!
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