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The Black Tulip

by Alexandre Dumas

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Table of Contents
1. A Grateful People 2. The Two Brothers 3. The Pupil of John de Witt 4. The Murderers 5. The Tulip-fancier and his Neighbour 6. The Hatred of a Tulip-fancier 7. The Happy Man makes Acquaintance with Misfortune 8. An Invasion 9. The Family Cell 10. The Jailer's Daughter 11. Cornelius van Baerle's Will 12. The Execution 13. What was going on all this Time in the Mind of one of the Spectators 14. The Pigeons of Dort 15. The Little Grated Window 16. Master and Pupil 17. The First Bulb 18. Rosa's Lover 19. The Maid and the Flower 20. The Events which took place during those Eight Days 21. The Second Bulb 22. The Opening of the Flower 23. The Rival 24. The Black Tulip changes Masters 25. The President van Systens 26. A Member of the Horticultural Society 27. The Third Bulb 28. The Hymn of the Flowers 29. In which Van Baerle, before leaving Loewestein, settles Accounts with Gryphus 30. Wherein the Reader begins to guess the Kind of Execution that was awaiting Van Baerle 31. Haarlem 32. A Last Request 33. Conclusion

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