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: ]

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FIRST SCENE.—The Cottage on the Frontier.

PREAMBLE.