Produced by David Edwards, Christine Aldridge and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (Stanford University, SUL Books in the Public Domain) Transcriber's Notes: 1. Passages in italics are surrounded by _underscores_. 2. Passages in Gothic Bold are surrounded by +plus+ signs. 3. Other transcription notes appear at the end of this e-text. [Illustration: "_Kneeling Down, Placed It on the Ground_" Original Etching by Mercier] +The Mysteries of Paris.+ _ILLUSTRATED WITH ETCHINGS BY MERCIER, BICKNELL, POITEAU, AND ADRIAN MARCEL._ _BY EUGENE SUE_ _IN SIX VOLUMES VOLUME VI._ _PRINTED FOR FRANCIS A. NICCOLLS & CO. BOSTON_ +Edition de Luxe+ _This edition is limited to one thousand copies, of which this is_ No.____ CONTENTS. CHAPTER PAGE I. PUNISHMENT 11 II. RODOLPH AND SARAH 44 III. LOVE'S FRENZY 68 IV. THE HOSPITAL 80 V. HOPE 108 VI. THE FATHER AND DAUGHTER 122 VII. THE MARRIAGE 141 VIII. BICETRE 152 IX. THE TOILET 183 X. MARTIAL AND THE CHOURINEUR 195 XI. THE FINGER OF PROVIDENCE 201 EPILOGUE. I. GEROLSTEIN 215 II. THE PRINCESS AMELIE 236 III. THE VOWS 262 IV. THE THIRTEENTH OF JANUARY 267 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. PAGE "KNEELING DOWN PLACED IT ON THE GROUND" _Frontispiece_ "WAS LOOKING AT HERSELF IN A MIRROR" 44 "THEY TOOK HER TO THEIR GUILTY HAUNTS" 65 "THE SCHOOLMASTER WAS SITTING ON A BENCH" 172 "IN THE CHURCH IN PRAYER" 264 THE MYSTERIES OF PARIS. CHAPTER I. PUNISHMENT. We will again conduct the reader into the study of Jacques Ferrand. Availing ourselves of the loquacity of the clerks, we shall endeavour, through their instrumentality, to narrate the events that had occurred since the disappearance of Cecily. "A hundred sous to ten, if his present state continues, that in less than a month our governor will go off with a pop." "The fact is, since Cecily left, he is only skin and bones." "And now he takes to the priests again more than ever."