THE BLACK TULIP

 

by

 

Alexandre Dumas

 

 


CONTENTS:

 

Chapter 1 A Grateful People. 3

Chapter 2 The Two Brothers. 9

Chapter 3 The Pupil of John de Witt 15

Chapter 4 The Murderers. 22

Chapter 5 The Tulip-fancier and his Neighbour 29

Chapter 6 The Hatred of a Tulip-fancier 34

Chapter 7 The Happy Man makes Acquaintance with Misfortune. 39

Chapter 8 An Invasion. 46

Chapter 9 The Family Cell 51

Chapter 10 The Jailer’s Daughter 54

Chapter 11 Cornelius van Baerle’s Will 58

Chapter 12 The Execution. 66

Chapter 13 What was going on all this Time in the Mind of one of the Spectators. 69

Chapter 14 The Pigeons of Dort 72

Chapter 15 The Little Grated Window.. 76

Chapter 16 Master and Pupil 81

Chapter 17 The First Bulb. 86

Chapter 18 Rosa’s Lover 92

Chapter 19 The Maid and the Flower 97

Chapter 20 The Events which took place during those Eight Days. 101

Chapter 21 The Second Bulb. 107

Chapter 22 The Opening of the Flower 113

Chapter 23 The Rival 118

Chapter 24 The Black Tulip changes Masters. 122

Chapter 25 The President van Systens. 125

Chapter 26 A Member of the Horticultural Society. 130

Chapter 27 The Third Bulb. 136

Chapter 28 The Hymn of the Flowers. 142

Chapter 29 In which Van Baerle, before leaving Loewestein, settles Accounts with Gryphus  147

Chapter 30 Wherein the Reader begins to guess the Kind of Execution that was awaiting Van Baerle  152

Chapter 31 Haarlem.. 155

Chapter 32 A Last Request 159

Chapter 33 Conclusion. 163