Robert Helmont: Diary of a Recluse, 1870-1871

by Alphonse Daudet

This ebook was transcribed by Les Bowler

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ALPHONSE DAUDET

Robert Helmont
DIARY OF A RECLUSE

1870–1871

TRANSLATED BY

LAURA ENSOR

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY PICARD AND MONTÉGUT

LONDON
GEORGE ROUTLEDGE AND SONS, Limited
Broadway, Ludgate Hill
MANCHESTER AND NEW YORK
1892

LIST OF PLATES

	PAGE
“Read that, Mr. Robert, said the good man”	[18]
“Seeing me so thoroughly determined, the Keeper pressed my hand”	[35]
“Colaquet managed to take us tolerably straight”	[56]
“Old Guillard brought out a large jug of sparkling wine”	[68]
“They began drinking out of their caps”	[74]
“He lay sprawling at full length on the stone bench”	[79]
“At that instant a man rushed across the moonlit orchard”	[111]
The Watch	[128]
“It was a balloon”	[140]
“I found a pigeon”	[148]
“We crossed a heavy punt”	[160]
“I seized hold of the chain with both hands and lowered myself into the river”	[171]
“They blew out his brains with a revolver”	[186]
“I heard the clinking of glasses, the uncorking of bottles”	[191]
“Forgetful of the lost harvest in preparing for that of the future”	[199]