The Martyrdom of Madeline
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In this story I have touched, very feebly and inadequately, on one of the greatest and saddest of human problems—as great and sad, certainly, as the problem which forms the central purpose of my ‘Shadow of the Sword.’ What the creed of Peace is to the state, the creed of Purity is to the social community. So long as carnal indulgence is recognised as a masculine prerogative, so long as personal chastity is a supreme factor in the fate of women, but a mere accident in the lives of men, so long as the diabolic ingenuity of a strong sex is tortured to devise legal means for sacrificing a weaker s...
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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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