tailieunhanh - Black Diamonds

We are in the depths of an underground cavern. It is bad enough to be underground, but here we are all enveloped in black as well: the ceiling is black, so are the walls; they are made of blocks of coal. The floor is one great black looking-glass. It is a sort of pond, polished as steel. Over this polished surface glistens the reflection of a solitary light, the light of a safety-lamp shining through a wire net. A man guides himself over the pond in a narrow boat. By the doubtful light of the lamp he sees high pillars, which rise out of the. | Black Diamonds by Mór Jókai 1 Black Diamonds by Mór Jókai The Project Gutenberg EBook of Black Diamonds by Mór Jókai This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title Black Diamonds Author Mór Jókai Translator Frances A. Gerard Release Date June 3 2010 EBook 32668 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BLACK DIAMONDS Produced by Steven desJardins and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http Illustration Budapest 1896 17 III Dr. Jókai Mór MAURUS JOKAI BLACK DIAMONDS Black Diamonds by Mór Jókai A Novel 2 TRANSLATED BY FRANCES A. GERARD NEW YORK HARPER BROTHERS PUBLISHERS Copyright 1896 by HARPER BROTHERS. All rights reserved. CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE 3 CHAPTER PAGE I. A BLACK PLACE 1 II. THE SLAVE OF THE BLACK DIAMONDS 11 III. THE MAN-EATER 27 IV. A MODERN ALCHEMIST 35 V. THE DOCTOR 50 VI. COUNTESS THEUDELINDE 63 VII. THE COUNTESS S ALBUM 79 VIII. THE EXORCIST 95 IX. AN OBSTINATE FELLOW 132 X. THE HIGHER MATHEMATICS 146 XI. SOIRÉES AMALGAMANTES 155 XII. RITTER MAGNET 166 XIII. ONLY A TRIFLE 189 XIV. THIRTY-THREE PARTS 207 XV. TWO POINTS 225 XVI. GOOD-BYE 232 XVII. THE LAST REHEARSAL 245 XVIII. FINANCIAL WISDOM 253 XIX. FILTHY LUCRE 259 XX. NO EVELINE 278 XXI. RESPECT FOR HALINA CLOTH 291 XXII. TWO SUPPLIANTS 301 XXIII. FINANCIAL INTRIGUE 312 XXIV. THE BONDAVARA RAILWAY 317 XXV. THE POOR DEAR PRINCE 324 XXVI. DIES IRA 327 XXVII. FROM THE SUBLIME TO THE RIDICULOUS 348 XXVIII. TWO CHILDREN 352 XXIX. IMMACULATE 357 XXX. MAN AND WIFE 365 XXXI. EVA DIRKMAL 373 XXXII. CRUSHED 378 XXXIII. CHARCOAL 387 XXXIV. CSANTA S LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT 395 XXXV. THE GROUND BURNS UNDER HIS FEET 401 XXXVI. CHILD S PLAY 406 XXXVII. EUREKA 411 XXXVIII. AT PAR 419 XXXIX. THE UNDERGROUND WORLD 428 XL. ANGELA IS EVEN WITH IVAN