Produced by Steven desJardins and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net [Transcriber's Note: This text is taken from a nine-volume edition of the works of Alexandre Dumas, published in 1893 by Peter Fenelon Collier. _The Regent's Daughter_ was published in volume 6, along with _The Forty-Five Guardsmen_ and _The Conspirators_, both of which are also available from Project Gutenberg. The translator of these texts is unknown. The use of accents in the original text was erratic, and some names appear with more than one spelling. Except where one version was clearly predominant, all spellings are left as they appear in the original text.] THE WORKS OF ALEXANDRE DUMAS THE REGENT'S DAUGHTER A SEQUEL TO "THE CONSPIRATORS" Copiously Illustrated with elegant Pen and Ink and Wood Engravings, specially drawn for this edition by eminent French and American Artists COMPLETE IN NINE VOLUMES VOLUME SIX NEW YORK PETER FENELON COLLIER, PUBLISHER 1893 THE REGENT'S DAUGHTER. 1. An Abbess of the Eighteenth Century 431 2. Decidedly the Family begins to settle down 435 3. What passed three Nights later at eight hundred 438 Leagues from the Palais Royal 4. Showing how Chance arranges some Matters better 442 than Providence 5. The Journey 444 6. A Room in the Hotel at Rambouillet 447 7. A Servant in the Royal Livery--Monseigneur le 449 Duc d'Orleans 8. The Utility of a Seal 452 9. The Visit 455 10. In which Dubois proves that his Police was 459 better organized at an Expense of three hundred thousand Francs than the general Police for three Millions 11. Rambouillet again 461 12. Captain la Jonquiere 463 13. Monsieur Moutonnet, Draper at St. Germain-en-Laye 466 14. Trust to Signs of Gratitude 468 15. His Excellency the Duc d'Orleans 471 16. "Monseigneur, we are Bretons" 474 17. Monsieur Andre 475 18. The Faubourg Saint Antoine 479 19. The Artist and the Politician 481 20. Blood reveals itself 484 21. What passed in the Rue du Bac while waiting for 488 Gaston 22. In Bretagne 502 23. The Sorceress of Savernay 505 24. The Arrest 509 25. The Bastille 512 26. How Life passed in the Bastille while waiting 516 for Death 27. How the Night passed in the Bastille while 519 waiting for the Day