Chapters (44)
- THE MALEFACTOR
- BOOK I
- A SOCIETY SCANDAL
- OUTSIDE THE PALE
- A STUDENT OF CHARACTER
- A DELICATE MISSION
- THE GOSPEL OF HATE
- “HAST THOU FOUND ME, O MINE ENEMY?”
- LORD OF THE MANOR
- THE HEART OF A CHILD
- THE SWORD OF DAMOCLES
- A FORLORN HOPE
- PROFESSOR SINCLAIR’S DANCING ACADEMY
- MEPHISTOPHELES ON A STEAMER
- A COCKNEY CONSPIRATOR
- THE MOTH AND THE CANDLE
- “Tomorrow morning,” Aynesworth remarked, “we shall land.”
- “DEVIL TAKE THE HINDMOST”
- THE HIDDEN HAND
- BOOK II
- “MR. WINGRAVE FROM AMERICA”
- THE SHADOW OF A FEAR
- JULIET ASKS QUESTIONS
- LADY RUTH’S LAST CARD
- GUARDIAN AND WARD
- GHOSTS OF DEAD THINGS
- SPREADING THE NETS
- “By the bye,” the Marchioness asked him, “have you a Christian name?”
- IN THE TOILS
- THE INDISCRETION OF THE MARCHIONESS
- “I AM MISANTHROPOS, AND HATE MANKIND”
- JULIET GAINS EXPERIENCE
- NEMESIS AT WORK
- RICHARDSON TRIES AGAIN
- “You saw—who that was?”
- “IT WAS AN ACCIDENT”
- AYNESWORTH PLANS A LOVE STORY
- A DEED OF GIFT
- FOR PITY’S SAKE
- A DREAM OF PARADISE
- THE AWAKENING
- REVENGE IS—BITTER
- THE WAY OF PEACE
- “LOVE SHALL MAKE ALL THINGS NEW”
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