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- THE MARTYRDOM OF MADELINE
- With A Frontispiece By A. W. Cooper
- London: Chatto & Windus, Piccadilly
- 1889
- PREFATORY NOTE.
- R. B.
- THE MARTYRDOM OF MADELINE.
- PROLOGUE IN THE NIGHT.
- CHAPTER I.—A DANCING LESSON UNDER DIFFICULTIES.
- CHAPTER II.—‘UNCLE’ LUKE AND ‘UNCLE’ MARK.
- CHAPTER III.—EASTER SOLEMNITIES OF THE BRETHREN.
- CHAPTER IV.—UNCLE MARK PARTS WITH THE OLD BARGE.
- CHAPTER V.—UNCLE MARK SAILS UP THE SHINING RIVER.
- CHAPTER VI.—MADELINE IS ABOUT TO REALISE HER DREAM.
- CHAPTER VII.—INTRODUCES A DISTINGUISHED LITERARY BOHEMIAN.
- CHAPTER VIII.—UNCLE LUKE IS BROKEN-HEARTED.
- CHAPTER IX.—MADELINE FINDS NEW FRIENDS.
- CHAPTER X.—A TELEGRAPHIC THUNDERBOLT.
- CHAPTER XI.—THE HAWK AND THE DOVE.
- CHAPTER XII.—CAGED.
- CHAPTER XIII.—MADELINE AWAKES FROM HER DREAM.
- CHAPTER XIV.—DARKER DAYS.
- CHAPTER XV.—BELLEISLE SPREADS HIS NET.
- CHAPTER XVI.—‘WHICH DO YOU PITY?’
- CHAPTER XVII.—THE BARS BROKEN.
- CHAPTER XVIII.—IMOGEN.
- CHAPTER XIX.—THE HARUM-SCARUMS.
- CHAPTER XX.—A PAINTER’S MODEL.
- CHAPTER XXI.—A WALK ACROSS HYDE PARK.
- CHAPTER XXII.—BLANCO SERENA.
- CHAPTER XXIII.—AT THE CLUB.
- CHAPTER XXIV.—WHITE BIDS A LAST FAREWELL TO BOHEMIA.
- CHAPTER XXV.—MADELINE CHANGES HER NAME.
- CHAPTER XXVI.—THE PUPIL OF THE IMPECCABLE.
- CHAPTER XXVII.—ADELE LAMBERT.
- CHAPTER XXVIII.—AT THE COUNTESS AURELIA’S.
- CHAPTER XXIX.—GAVROLLES.
- CHAPTER XXX.—IN THE TOILS.
- CHAPTER XXXI.—IN THE ROW.
- CHAPTER XXXII.—HUSBAND AND WIFE.
- CHAPTER XXXIII.—OLD JOURNALISM—AND NEW.
- CHAPTER XXXIV.—A SELF-CONSTITUTED CHAMPION.
- CHAPTER XXXV—MADELINE PREPARES FOR FLIGHT.
- CHAPTER XXXVI.—‘GOOD-BYE!’
- CHAPTER XXXVII.—THE SEARCH.
- CHAPTER XXXVIII.—‘ONE MORE UNFORTUNATE’
- FOUND DROWNED!
- CHAPTER XXXIX.—DUST TO DUST.
- CHAPTER XL.—‘RESURGAM.’
- CHAPTER XLI.—THE SISTERS OF MOUNT EDEN.
- CHAPTER XLII.—EXIT GAVROLLES.
- CHAPTER XLIII.—ON BOULOGNE SANDS.
- CHAPTER XLIV.—‘JANE PEARTREE.’
- CHAPTER XLV.—AN OLD PICTURE.
- CHAPTER XLVI.—HOW MADELINE ROSE AGAIN.
- EPILOGUE.
- THE END
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