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The Mysteries of Paris, illustrated with etchings, Vol. 2

Chapter 17: Transcriber's Notes:
By Eugène Sue
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This volume continues a sprawling urban melodrama that interweaves the lives of wealthy circles and impoverished neighborhoods, unfolding scandals, secret letters, betrayals, and conspiracies that expose social contradictions. Set pieces range from an opulent ball to furtive rendezvous, ambuscades, a troubled rectory, and scenes of domestic misery and legal and financial maneuvering; personal tragedies and revelations intensify tensions between compassion and revenge. Through intersecting episodes the narrative highlights hypocrisy, class injustice, and the human cost of ambition while accelerating multiple plotlines toward future reckonings.

Transcriber's Notes:

This e-text was prepared from numbered edition 505 of the 1000 printed.

In the original text the title "The Mysteries of Paris" is printed in Bold Gothic Font.

Minor punctuation and capitalization corrections have been made without comment.

Minor typographical errors of single words, otherwise spelled correctly throughout the text have been made without comment.

Word Variations appearing in the original text which have been retained:

"box-wood" and "boxwood"
"court-yard" and "courtyard"
"dairy-maid" and "dairymaid"
"incumber" and "encumber"
"milk-woman" and "milkwoman"
"out-building" and "outbuilding"
"Saint-Remy" (16) and "Saint-Rémy" (6)
"stew-pan" and "stewpan"

Throughout the text, illustrations and their captions were placed on facing pages. For the purpose of this e-text these pages have been combined into one entry.

Footnotes, originally at the bottom of a printed page, have been placed directly below the paragraph in which their anchor symbol appears.