JACK By Alphonse Daudet Translated by Mary Neal Sherwood From The Fortieth Thousand, French Edition. Estes And Lauriat, 1877 CONTENTS CHAPTER I. VAURIGARD. CHAPTER II. THE SCHOOL IN THE AVENUE MONTAIGNE. CHAPTER III. MÂDOU. CHAPTER IV. THE REUNION. CHAPTER V. A DINNER WITH IDA. CHAPTER VI. AMAURY D’ARGENTON. CHAPTER VII. MÂDOU’S FLIGHT. CHAPTER VIII. JACK’S DEPARTURE. CHAPTER IX. PARVA DOMUS, MAGNA QUIES. CHAPTER X. THE FIRST APPEARANCE OF BÉLISAIRE. CHAPTER XI. CÉCILE. CHAPTER XII. LIFE IS NOT A ROMANCE. CHAPTER XIII. INDRET. CHAPTER XIV. A MIDNIGHT INTERVIEW. CHAPTER XV. CHARLOTTE’S JOURNEY. CHAPTER XVI. CLARISSE. CHAPTER XVII. IN THE ENGINE-ROOM. CHAPTER XVIII. D’ARGENTON’S MAGAZINE. CHAPTER XIX. THE CONVALESCENT. CHAPTER XX. THE WEDDING-PARTY. CHAPTER XXI. EFFECTS OF POETRY. CHAPTER XXII. CÉCILE UNHAPPY RESOLVE. CHAPTER XXIII. A MELANCHOLY SPECTACLE. CHAPTER XXIV. DEATH IN THE HOSPITAL. JACK CHAPTER I. VAURIGARD. “With a _k_, sir; with a _k_. The name is written and pronounced as in English. The child’s godfather was English. A major-general in the Indian army. Lord Pembroke. You know him, perhaps? A man of distinction and of the highest connections. But—you understand—M. l’Abbé! How deliciously he danced! He died a frightful death at Singapore some years since, in a tiger-chase organized in his honor by a rajah, one of his friends. These rajahs, it seems, are absolute monarchs in their own country,—and one especially is very celebrated. What is his name? Wait a moment. Ah! I have it. Rana-Ramah.” “Pardon me, madame,” interrupted the abbé, smiling, in spite of himself, at the rapid flow of words, and at the swift change of ideas. “After Jack, what name?” With his elbow on his desk, and his head slightly bent, the priest examined from out the corners of eyes bright with ecclesiastical shrewdness, the young woman who sat before him, with her Jack standing at her side.