ILLUSTRATIONS.
Reading edition
"HE SAW A DULL HEAVY SMOKE ARISE TO THE CEILING" Frontispiece
"HE WAS A TALL, DARK GENTLEMAN, DRESSED IN BLACK FROM HEAD TO FOOT" To face page 8
"'I AM THY UNCLE,' SAID THE STRANGE GENTLEMAN" " " 12
"AT THAT MOMENT SHE LOOKED UP" " " 18
"HE SUDDENLY BEGAN AN UNCOUTH, GROTESQUE DANCE" " " 22
"HE LIGHTED A MATCH AND DROPPED IT INTO THE VASE" " " 30
"OLIVER GAVE A PIPING CRY" " " 36
"AT THE OPEN DOOR-WAY STOOD GASPARD AND HIS MASTER" " " 42
"CREEPING CAUTIOUSLY FORWARD, OLIVER CAME TO THE CHIMNEY-PIECE" " " 46
"'GOOD-DAY, MONSIEUR,' SAID A FAMILIAR VOICE" " " 56
"THE QUESTION WAS SO SUDDEN AND SO STARTLING THAT OLIVER SANK BACK IN HIS SEAT" " " 58
"SUCH WAS THE WORKSHOP IN WHICH THE TWO LABORED TOGETHER" " " 70
"THEY SAW ARNOLD DE VILLENEUVE, THE GREAT MASTER, UPON THE FLOOR" " " 74
"SHE HELD THE BOOK IN THE FLAMES WHILE TALKING, HER EYES FIXED INTENTLY UPON IT" " " 84
"HE LEANED OVER AND LOOKED INTO HER FACE" " " 86
"AND STRIPPED THE FALSE BODY OFF OF HIM AS YOU MIGHT STRIP OFF A MAN'S COAT" " " 94
"HE SAW WITHIN AN OVAL MIRROR SET IN A HEAVY FRAME OF COPPER" " " 98
"THE INNKEEPER SERVED HIM IN PERSON" " " 102
"'MAD!' SAID OLIVER, 'WHY AM I MAD?'" " " 110
"HE IS CLAD IN A LOOSE DRESSING-ROBE OF FIGURED CLOTH, AND LIES IN BED READING HIS BOOK" " " 114
"OLIVER SPREAD OUT THE GEMS UPON THE TABLE WITH HIS HAND" " " 124
"ENTER OLIVER AND MADEMOISELLE CÉLESTE" " " 130
"'DO YOU KNOW,' SAID THE MARQUIS, 'WHAT A THING IT IS THAT YOU ASK?'" " " 136
"HE SANK ON HIS KNEES BESIDE HER" " " 140
"SHE DREW HER DOWN UNTIL THE GIRL KNEELED UPON THE FLOOR BESIDE HER" " " 146
"'MONSIEUR THE COUNT DE ST. GERMAINE!'" " " 148
"THE COUNT DE ST. GERMAINE, WITHOUT REMOVING HIS EYES FROM HIS VICTIM, TOOK ANOTHER DEEP, LUXURIOUS PINCH OF SNUFF" " " 152
"OLIVER FIXED HIS GAZE UPON THE SMOOTH, BRILLIANT SURFACE OF THE GLASS" " " 166
"THEY BEHELD THEIR MASTER LYING UPON HIS FACE UNDER THE TABLE" " " 176
"SUDDENLY SOME ONE TOUCHED OLIVER SLIGHTLY UPON THE SHOULDER" " " 178
"'CÉLESTE!' BREATHED OLIVER THROUGH THE CRACK OF THE DOOR" " " 186
"HE FOUND IN HIS CLINCHED HAND A LACE CRAVAT" " " 194
"OVER HIS SHOULDERS HE CARRIED SOMETHING LIMP, LIKE AN EMPTY SKIN, OR A BUNDLE OF CLOTHES TIED TOGETHER" " " 198
A MODERN ALADDIN;
OR,
THE WONDERFUL ADVENTURES OF OLIVER MUNIER.
An Extravaganza in Four Acts.
A MODERN ALADDIN.