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"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.

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A MODERN ALADDIN.


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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