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You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org - - -Title: The New Magdalen - -Author: Wilkie Collins - -Release Date: October 28, 2008 [EBook #1623] -Last Updated: September 11, 2016 - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE NEW MAGDALEN *** - - - - -Produced by James Rusk, and David Widger - - - - - -</pre> +<div style='text-align:center'>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 1623 ***</div> <p> - <br /><br /> + <br ><br > </p> <h1> THE NEW MAGDALEN </h1> <p> - <br /> + <br > </p> <h2> by Wilkie Collins </h2> <p> - <br /><br /> + <br ><br > </p> <h4> TO THE MEMORY OF CHARLES ALLSTON COLLINS. (9th April, 1873.) </h4> <p> - <br /> <br /> + <br > <br > </p> - <hr /> + <hr > <p> - <br /> <br /> + <br > <br > </p> <blockquote> <p class="toc"> - <big><b>CONTENTS</b></big> + <span style="font-size: larger"><b>CONTENTS</b></span> </p> <p> - <br /> + <br > </p> <p class="toc"> <a href="#link2H_4_0002"> <b>FIRST SCENE.—The Cottage on the @@ -119,7 +83,7 @@ Produced by James Rusk, and David Widger <a href="#link2HCH0005"> CHAPTER V. THE GERMAN SURGEON. </a> </p> <p> - <br /> + <br > </p> <p class="toc"> <a href="#link2H_4_0008"> <b>SECOND SCENE.—Mablethorpe House.</b> @@ -206,11 +170,11 @@ Produced by James Rusk, and David Widger </p> </blockquote> <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0002" id="link2H_4_0002"> + <a id="link2H_4_0002"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> FIRST SCENE.—The Cottage on the Frontier. @@ -232,11 +196,11 @@ Produced by James Rusk, and David Widger traveling lady on her way to England. </p> <p> - <a name="link2HCH0001" id="link2HCH0001"> + <a id="link2HCH0001"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> CHAPTER I. THE TWO WOMEN. @@ -636,11 +600,11 @@ Produced by James Rusk, and David Widger darkness fell on the two women the nurse spoke. </p> <p> - <a name="link2HCH0002" id="link2HCH0002"> + <a id="link2HCH0002"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> CHAPTER II. MAGDALEN—IN MODERN TIMES. @@ -941,11 +905,11 @@ Produced by James Rusk, and David Widger intently for the next sound. </p> <p> - <a name="link2HCH0003" id="link2HCH0003"> + <a id="link2HCH0003"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> CHAPTER III. THE GERMAN SHELL. @@ -1283,11 +1247,11 @@ Produced by James Rusk, and David Widger That trifling action decided the whole future course of her life. </p> <p> - <a name="link2HCH0004" id="link2HCH0004"> + <a id="link2HCH0004"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> CHAPTER IV. THE TEMPTATION. @@ -1547,11 +1511,11 @@ Produced by James Rusk, and David Widger the other side, and three men confronted her in the open doorway. </p> <p> - <a name="link2HCH0005" id="link2HCH0005"> + <a id="link2HCH0005"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> CHAPTER V. THE GERMAN SURGEON. @@ -2057,11 +2021,11 @@ Produced by James Rusk, and David Widger “Pass the English lady!” </p> <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0008" id="link2H_4_0008"> + <a id="link2H_4_0008"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> SECOND SCENE.—Mablethorpe House. @@ -2080,11 +2044,11 @@ Produced by James Rusk, and David Widger Roseberry, and Mercy Merrick. </p> <p> - <a name="link2HCH0006" id="link2HCH0006"> + <a id="link2HCH0006"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> CHAPTER VI. LADY JANET’S COMPANION. @@ -2494,11 +2458,11 @@ Produced by James Rusk, and David Widger companion by her side. </p> <p> - <a name="link2HCH0007" id="link2HCH0007"> + <a id="link2HCH0007"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> CHAPTER VII. THE MAN IS COMING. @@ -3151,11 +3115,11 @@ Produced by James Rusk, and David Widger dreamless sleep. </p> <p> - <a name="link2HCH0008" id="link2HCH0008"> + <a id="link2HCH0008"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> CHAPTER VIII. THE MAN APPEARS. @@ -3526,11 +3490,11 @@ Produced by James Rusk, and David Widger Roseberry is in the room.” </p> <p> - <a name="link2HCH0009" id="link2HCH0009"> + <a id="link2HCH0009"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> CHAPTER IX. NEWS FROM MANNHEIM. @@ -3916,7 +3880,7 @@ Produced by James Rusk, and David Widger a nurse in the French ambulance.” “What has she done?” “I have lost my papers; I have lost my own clothes; Mercy Merrick has taken them.” “How do you know that Mercy Merrick has taken them?” “Nobody else could have taken - them—that’s how I know it. Do you believe me or not?” She as + them—that’s how I know it. Do you believe me or not?” She was beginning to excite herself again; I assured her that I would at once send to make inquiries after Mercy Merrick. She turned round contented on the pillow. “There’s a good man!” she said. “Come back and tell me when you @@ -4023,11 +3987,11 @@ Produced by James Rusk, and David Widger Julian told him. </p> <p> - “GRACE ROSEBERRY.” <a name="link2HCH0010" id="link2HCH0010"> + “GRACE ROSEBERRY.” <a id="link2HCH0010"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> CHAPTER X. A COUNCIL OF THREE. @@ -4193,7 +4157,7 @@ Produced by James Rusk, and David Widger without making some inquiry first.” </p> <p> - Lady Janet’s inbred sense of justice admitted not over willingly—the + Lady Janet’s inbred sense of justice admitted not over-willingly—the reasonableness as well as the humanity of the view expressed in those words. “There is some truth in that, Julian,” she said, shifting her position uneasily in her chair, and looking at Horace. “Don’t you think @@ -4261,11 +4225,11 @@ Produced by James Rusk, and David Widger from which the sounds had come. </p> <p> - <a name="link2HCH0011" id="link2HCH0011"> + <a id="link2HCH0011"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> CHAPTER XI. THE DEAD ALIVE. @@ -4740,11 +4704,11 @@ Produced by James Rusk, and David Widger fierce eyes that had found her—she dropped senseless on the floor. </p> <p> - <a name="link2HCH0012" id="link2HCH0012"> + <a id="link2HCH0012"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> CHAPTER XII. EXIT JULIAN. @@ -5029,7 +4993,7 @@ Produced by James Rusk, and David Widger Julian himself, if it had been put to him at the moment, could not have answered the question. </p> - <hr /> + <hr > <p> Lady Janet’s anxiety was far from being relieved when Mercy had been restored to her senses and conducted to her own room. @@ -5187,11 +5151,11 @@ Produced by James Rusk, and David Widger could guess; and Mercy refused to say. </p> <p> - <a name="link2HCH0013" id="link2HCH0013"> + <a id="link2HCH0013"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> CHAPTER XIII. ENTER JULIAN. @@ -5262,7 +5226,7 @@ Produced by James Rusk, and David Widger “I took her to the sea-side a week since by medical advice.” </p> <p> - “Has the change of air don e her no good?” + “Has the change of air done her no good?” </p> <p> “None whatever. If anything, the change of air has made her worse. @@ -5563,11 +5527,11 @@ Produced by James Rusk, and David Widger Patient Julian began. </p> <p> - <a name="link2HCH0014" id="link2HCH0014"> + <a id="link2HCH0014"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> CHAPTER XIV. COMING EVENTS CAST THEIR SHADOWS BEFORE. @@ -5900,11 +5864,11 @@ Produced by James Rusk, and David Widger With those words he left the room. </p> <p> - <a name="link2HCH0015" id="link2HCH0015"> + <a id="link2HCH0015"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> CHAPTER XV. A WOMAN’S REMORSE. @@ -6390,7 +6354,7 @@ Produced by James Rusk, and David Widger she asked. </p> <p> - “True as t he heaven above us!” + “True as the heaven above us!” </p> <p> She drank in those few commonplace words with a greedy delight. She forced @@ -6485,11 +6449,11 @@ Produced by James Rusk, and David Widger Grace Roseberry waited the event. </p> <p> - <a name="link2HCH0016" id="link2HCH0016"> + <a id="link2HCH0016"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> CHAPTER XVI. THEY MEET AGAIN. @@ -6550,7 +6514,7 @@ Produced by James Rusk, and David Widger marriage the affection which she had given to the woman who had pretended to be her relative? No! All the right in the world would not put the true Grace into the false Grace’s vacant place. The qualities by which Mercy - had won Lady Janet’s love were the qualities which were Mercy’s won. Lady + had won Lady Janet’s love were the qualities which were Mercy’s own. Lady Janet could do rigid justice—but hers was not the heart to give itself to a stranger (and to give itself unreservedly) a second time. Grace Roseberry would be formally acknowledged—and there it would @@ -6785,11 +6749,11 @@ Produced by James Rusk, and David Widger little into betraying his suspicions, if he did indeed suspect the truth. </p> <p> - <a name="link2HCH0017" id="link2HCH0017"> + <a id="link2HCH0017"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> CHAPTER XVII. THE GUARDIAN ANGEL. @@ -7283,11 +7247,11 @@ Produced by James Rusk, and David Widger Lady Janet Roy entered the room. </p> <p> - <a name="link2HCH0018" id="link2HCH0018"> + <a id="link2HCH0018"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> CHAPTER XVIII. THE SEARCH IN THE GROUNDS. @@ -7859,11 +7823,11 @@ Produced by James Rusk, and David Widger Grace Roseberry, in sinister silence, waiting for her. </p> <p> - <a name="link2HCH0019" id="link2HCH0019"> + <a id="link2HCH0019"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> CHAPTER XIX. THE EVIL GENIUS. @@ -8245,11 +8209,11 @@ Produced by James Rusk, and David Widger Horace Holmcroft with his mother’s wedding present to Mercy in his hand. </p> <p> - <a name="link2HCH0020" id="link2HCH0020"> + <a id="link2HCH0020"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> CHAPTER XX. THE POLICEMAN IN PLAIN CLOTHES. @@ -8605,7 +8569,7 @@ Produced by James Rusk, and David Widger she could <i>not</i> sustain? Her pride was in arms. Her lovely eyes lighted up as only a woman’s eyes <i>can</i> light up when they see jewelry. Her grand head bent gracefully to receive the necklace. Her face - w armed into color; her beauty rallied its charms. Her triumph over Grace + warmed into color; her beauty rallied its charms. Her triumph over Grace Roseberry was complete! Julian’s head sank. For one sad moment he secretly asked himself the question: “Have I been mistaken in her?” </p> @@ -9008,11 +8972,11 @@ Produced by James Rusk, and David Widger him before he had shut the door again. </p> <p> - <a name="link2HCH0021" id="link2HCH0021"> + <a id="link2HCH0021"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> CHAPTER XXI. THE FOOTSTEP IN THE CORRIDOR. @@ -9539,11 +9503,11 @@ Produced by James Rusk, and David Widger With that thought she went downstairs to meet him in the library. </p> <p> - <a name="link2HCH0022" id="link2HCH0022"> + <a id="link2HCH0022"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> CHAPTER XXII. THE MAN IN THE DINING-ROOM. @@ -10141,11 +10105,11 @@ Produced by James Rusk, and David Widger eyes on the library door. </p> <p> - <a name="link2HCH0023" id="link2HCH0023"> + <a id="link2HCH0023"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> CHAPTER XXIII. LADY JANET AT BAY. @@ -10678,7 +10642,7 @@ Produced by James Rusk, and David Widger sterling with a stroke of her pen. </p> <p> - Lady Janet wrote t he check in a few seconds, and pushed it across the + Lady Janet wrote the check in a few seconds, and pushed it across the table. </p> <p> @@ -10933,11 +10897,11 @@ Produced by James Rusk, and David Widger chair in silence. </p> <p> - <a name="link2HCH0024" id="link2HCH0024"> + <a id="link2HCH0024"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> CHAPTER XXIV. LADY JANET’S LETTER. @@ -11235,7 +11199,7 @@ Produced by James Rusk, and David Widger Mercy stopped him. “Impossible!” she cried, warmly. “Impossible!” </p> <p> - “Look again at her letter,” Julian rejoined. “It tells, you plainly that + “Look again at her letter,” Julian rejoined. “It tells you plainly that you need fear no embarrassment when you next meet Horace. If words mean anything, those words mean that he will not claim from you the confidence which you have promised to repose in him. On what condition is it possible @@ -11315,11 +11279,11 @@ Produced by James Rusk, and David Widger the man himself. Horace opened the library door. </p> <p> - <a name="link2HCH0025" id="link2HCH0025"> + <a id="link2HCH0025"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> CHAPTER XXV. THE CONFESSION @@ -11775,11 +11739,11 @@ Produced by James Rusk, and David Widger Holmcroft, I am Mercy Merrick.” </p> <p> - <a name="link2HCH0026" id="link2HCH0026"> + <a id="link2HCH0026"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> CHAPTER XXVI. GREAT HEART AND LITTLE HEART. @@ -12118,11 +12082,11 @@ Produced by James Rusk, and David Widger and told her sad story simply and truly in these words. </p> <p> - <a name="link2HCH0027" id="link2HCH0027"> + <a id="link2HCH0027"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> CHAPTER XXVII. MAGDALEN’S APPRENTICESHIP. @@ -12552,7 +12516,7 @@ Produced by James Rusk, and David Widger The purpose of public charities, and the way to discover and apply to them, ought to be posted at the corner of every street. What do we know of public dinners and eloquent sermons and neatly printed circulars? Every - now and then the ease of some forlorn creature (generally of a woman) who + now and then the case of some forlorn creature (generally of a woman) who has committed suicide, within five minutes’ walk, perhaps, of an institution which would have opened its doors to her, appears in the newspapers, shocks you dreadfully, and is then forgotten again. Take as @@ -12722,11 +12686,11 @@ Produced by James Rusk, and David Widger man whom I have wronged.” </p> <p> - <a name="link2HCH0028" id="link2HCH0028"> + <a id="link2HCH0028"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> CHAPTER XXVIII. SENTENCE IS PRONOUNCED ON HER. @@ -12772,7 +12736,7 @@ Produced by James Rusk, and David Widger </p> <p> She advanced a step toward him; it was not possible, even yet, to - completely forgot the past. She held out her hand. + completely forget the past. She held out her hand. </p> <p> He rose on his side—without looking at her. @@ -12983,7 +12947,7 @@ Produced by James Rusk, and David Widger insolence in the hour of her triumph—the woman who, without once flinching, had faced every other consequence of her resolution to ignore Mercy’s true position in the house—quailed for the first time when - she found herself face to face with the very person for who m she had + she found herself face to face with the very person for whom she had suffered and sacrificed so much. She had shrunk from the meeting with Mercy, as Mercy had shrunk from the meeting with <i>her</i>. The splendor of her dress meant simply that, when other excuses for delaying the @@ -13395,11 +13359,11 @@ Produced by James Rusk, and David Widger dining-room door. </p> <p> - <a name="link2HCH0029" id="link2HCH0029"> + <a id="link2HCH0029"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> CHAPTER XXIX. THE LAST TRIAL. @@ -13656,7 +13620,7 @@ Produced by James Rusk, and David Widger </p> <p> He had never moved. His head was down; his face was hidden. She went back - to hi m a few steps. + to him a few steps. </p> <p> “The others have gone from me without one kind word. Can <i>you</i> @@ -13722,11 +13686,11 @@ Produced by James Rusk, and David Widger Julian entered the dining-room. </p> <p> - <a name="link2H_EPIL" id="link2H_EPIL"> + <a id="link2H_EPIL"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> EPILOGUE: @@ -14039,7 +14003,7 @@ Produced by James Rusk, and David Widger “In the elegant and improving companionship which I now enjoy I should feel quite happy but for one drawback. The climate of Canada is not favorable to my kind patroness, and her medical advisers recommend her to - winter in London. In this event, I am to have t he privilege of + winter in London. In this event, I am to have the privilege of accompanying her. Is it necessary to add that my first visit will be paid at your house? I feel already united by sympathy to your mother and your sisters. There is a sort of freemasonry among gentlewomen, is there not? @@ -14204,7 +14168,7 @@ Produced by James Rusk, and David Widger As long as I was parted from him I could control my own weakness, I could accept my hard lot. But how can I resist him after having watched for weeks at his bedside; after having seen his first smile, and heard his - first grateful words t o me while I was slowly helping him back to life?’ + first grateful words to me while I was slowly helping him back to life?’ </p> <p> “There is the tone which she takes through four closely written pages of @@ -14368,7 +14332,7 @@ Produced by James Rusk, and David Widger <p> “I thought my aunt was joking. The event of to-day has shown me that she is terribly in earnest. Lady Janet has issued invitations for one of her - grand balls at Mablethorpe House; and sh e has caused the report to be + grand balls at Mablethorpe House; and she has caused the report to be circulated everywhere that the object of the festival is ‘to celebrate the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Julian Gray!’ </p> @@ -14530,378 +14494,7 @@ Produced by James Rusk, and David Widger number of social failures produced by England in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and seventy-one—Julian Gray and Mercy Merrick.” </p> - <p> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> - </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The New Magdalen, by Wilkie Collins - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE NEW MAGDALEN *** - -***** This file should be named 1623-h.htm or 1623-h.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/2/1623/ - -Produced by James Rusk, and David Widger - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions -will be renamed. - -Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no -one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation -(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without -permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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