JOHN BLOUNDELLE-BURTON

"HOW DOTH THE CITY SIT SOLITARY THAT WAS
FULL OF PEOPLE! NOW IS SHE BECOME AS A
WIDOW! SHE THAT WAS GREAT AMONG THE
NATIONS AND PRINCESS AMONG THE PROVINCES."

METHUEN & CO.
36 ESSEX STREET W.C.
LONDON
1900

Dramatised and produced for copyright purposes in London, May 1st, 1900. Licensed for production by the Lord Chamberlain, and entered at Stationers' Hall as a Drama in IV. Acts.

TO

MY FRIEND

ERNEST FOSTER

CONTENTS

CHAP.
[I.]Monsieur le Duc.
[II.]Les Demoiselles Montjoie at Home.
[III.]The Romance of Monsieur Vandecque.
[IV.]A Sister of Mercy.
[V.]The Duke's Desire
[VI.]The Duke's Bride.
[VII.]Man And Wife.
[VIII.]The Street Of The Holy Apostles.
[IX.]Alone.
[X.]The Prison of St. Martin des Champs.
[XI.]The Condemned.
[XII.]Marseilles.
[XIII.]"My Wife! What Wife? I have no Wife."
[XIV.]Where is the Man?
[XV.]The Pest.
[XVI.]"I had not Lived till now, could sorrow kill."
[XVII.]An Aristocratic Resort.
[XVIII.]"The Abandoned Orphan"--Prologue
[XIX.]"The Abandoned Orphan"--Drama
[XX.]"The Way to Dusty Death"
[XXI.]A Night Ride.
[XXII.]The Stricken City.
[XXIII.]Within the Walls.
[XXIV.]A Discovery.
[XXV.]Face to Face.
[XXVI.]"Revenge--Bitter! Ere Long Back on Itself Recoils!"
[XXVII.]"I Love Her!--She is my Wife."
[XXVIII.]The Walled-up Doors.
[XXIX.]Asleep or Awake.
[XXX.]"If after Every Tempest come such Calms!"

SERVANTS OF SIN

[CHAPTER I]