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Mór Jókai. Black Diamonds
Black Diamonds
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. A BLACK PLACE
CHAPTER II. THE SLAVE OF THE BLACK DIAMONDS
CHAPTER III. THE MAN-EATER
CHAPTER IV. A MODERN ALCHEMIST
CHAPTER V. THE DOCTOR
CHAPTER VI. COUNTESS THEUDELINDE
CHAPTER VII. THE COUNTESS'S ALBUM
CHAPTER VIII. THE EXORCIST
CHAPTER IX "AN OBSTINATE FELLOW"
CHAPTER X. THE HIGHER MATHEMATICS
CHAPTER XI. SOIRÉES AMALGAMANTES
CHAPTER XII. RITTER MAGNET
CHAPTER XIII. ONLY A TRIFLE
CHAPTER XIV. THIRTY-THREE PARTS
CHAPTER XV. TWO POINTS
CHAPTER XVI. GOOD-BYE
CHAPTER XVII. THE LAST REHEARSAL
CHAPTER XVIII. FINANCIAL WISDOM
CHAPTER XIX. FILTHY LUCRE
CHAPTER XX. NO, EVELINE!
CHAPTER XXI. RESPECT FOR HALINA CLOTH
CHAPTER XXII. TWO SUPPLIANTS
CHAPTER XXIII. FINANCIAL INTRIGUE
CHAPTER XXIV. THE BONDAVARA RAILWAY
CHAPTER XXV. THE POOR DEAR PRINCE
CHAPTER XXVI. DIES IRÆ
CHAPTER XXVII. FROM THE SUBLIME TO THE RIDICULOUS
CHAPTER XXVIII. TWO CHILDREN
CHAPTER XXIX. IMMACULATE
CHAPTER XXX. MAN AND WIFE
CHAPTER XXXI. EVA DIRKMAL
CHAPTER XXXII. CRUSHED
CHAPTER XXXIII. CHARCOAL
CHAPTER XXXIV. CSANTA'S LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT
CHAPTER XXXV. THE GROUND BURNS UNDER HIS FEET
CHAPTER XXXVI. CHILD'S PLAY
CHAPTER XXXVII. EUREKA
CHAPTER XXXVIII. AT PAR
CHAPTER XXXIX. THE UNDERGROUND WORLD
CHAPTER XL. ANGELA IS EVEN WITH IVAN
CHAPTER XLI. HOW IVAN MOURNED
CHAPTER XLII. EVILA
CHAPTER XLIII. THE DIAMOND REMAINED ALWAYS A DIAMOND
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Mór Jókai
A Novel
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Ivan had a hard battle to fight with himself when he was once more alone in the solitude of the night. The suppressed passion of the ascetic had suddenly broken through the dams, which moderation had set up to restrain its course.
Beware of the man who professes to be above human passion, who glories in his iron will and his heart of ice; avoid him and the quiet, holy, studious man of soft tongue, who turns away his eyes from women, and shuns what others enjoy. It is upon such as these that outraged human nature revenges itself; and once the demon within gets loose, he plays a fine game to indemnify himself for all the restraint he has undergone. The love of the worldling is a small dog; that of the hermit is a lion.
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