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Title: The New Magdalen
Author: Wilkie Collins
Release Date: October 28, 2008 [EBook #1623]
Language: English
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Produced by James Rusk, and David Widger
THE NEW MAGDALEN
by Wilkie Collins
TO THE MEMORY OF CHARLES ALLSTON COLLINS. (9th April, 1873.)
Contents
FIRST SCENE.—The Cottage on the Frontier.
CHAPTER I. THE TWO WOMEN.
CHAPTER II. MAGDALEN—IN MODERN TIMES.
CHAPTER III. THE GERMAN SHELL.
CHAPTER IV. THE TEMPTATION.
CHAPTER V. THE GERMAN SURGEON.
SECOND SCENE.—Mablethorpe House.
CHAPTER VI. LADY JANET'S COMPANION.
CHAPTER VII. THE MAN IS COMING.
CHAPTER VIII. THE MAN APPEARS.
CHAPTER IX. NEWS FROM MANNHEIM.
CHAPTER X. A COUNCIL OF THREE.
CHAPTER XI. THE DEAD ALIVE.
CHAPTER XII. EXIT JULIAN.
CHAPTER XIII. ENTER JULIAN.
CHAPTER XIV. COMING EVENTS CAST THEIR SHADOWS BEFORE.
CHAPTER XV. A WOMAN'S REMORSE.
CHAPTER XVI. THEY MEET AGAIN.
CHAPTER XVII. THE GUARDIAN ANGEL.
CHAPTER XVIII. THE SEARCH IN THE GROUNDS.
CHAPTER XIX. THE EVIL GENIUS.
CHAPTER XX. THE POLICEMAN IN PLAIN CLOTHES.
CHAPTER XXI. THE FOOTSTEP IN THE CORRIDOR.
CHAPTER XXII. THE MAN IN THE DINING-ROOM.
CHAPTER XXIII. LADY JANET AT BAY.
CHAPTER XXIV. LADY JANET'S LETTER.
CHAPTER XXV. THE CONFESSION
CHAPTER XXVI. GREAT HEART AND LITTLE HEART.
CHAPTER XXVII. MAGDALEN'S APPRENTICESHIP.
CHAPTER XXVIII. SENTENCE IS PRONOUNCED ON HER.
CHAPTER XXIX. THE LAST TRIAL.
EPILOGUE:
FIRST SCENE.—The Cottage on the Frontier.
PREAMBLE.
THE place is France.
The time is autumn, in the year eighteen hundred and seventy—the year of the war between France and
