SERVANTS OF SIN
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A ROMANCE
BY
JOHN BLOUNDELLE-BURTON
"HOW DOTH THE CITY SIT SOLITARY THAT WAS FULL OF PEOPLE! NOW IS SHE BECOME AS A WIDOW! SHE THAT WAS GREAT AMONG THE NATIONS AND PRINCESS AMONG THE PROVINCES."
METHUEN & CO. 36 ESSEX STREET W.C. LONDON 1900
Dramatised and produced for copyright purposes in London, May 1st, 1900. Licensed for production by the Lord Chamberlain, and entered at Stationers' Hall as a Drama in IV. Acts.
TO
MY FRIEND
ERNEST FOSTER
CONTENTS
CHAP.
I. Monsieur le Duc.
II. Les Demoiselles Montjoie at Home.
III. The Romance of Monsieur Vandecque.
IV. A Sister of Mercy.
V. The Duke's Desire
VI. The Duke's Bride.
VII. Man And Wife.
VIII. The Street Of The Holy Apostles.
IX. Alone.
X. The Prison of St. Martin des Champs.
XI. The Condemned.
XII. Marseilles.
XIII. "My Wife! What Wife? I have no Wife."
XIV. Where is the Man?
XV. The Pest.
XVI. "I had not Lived till now, could sorrow kill."
XVII. An Aristocratic Resort.
XVIII. "The Abandoned Orphan"--Prologue
XIX. "The Abandoned Orphan"--Drama
XX. "The Way to Dusty Death"
XXI. A Night Ride.
XXII. The Stricken City.
XXIII. Within the Walls.
XXIV. A Discovery.
XXV. Face to Face.
XXVI. "Revenge--Bitter! Ere Long Back on Itself Recoils!"
XXVII. "I Love Her!--She is my Wife."
XXVIII. The Walled-up Doors.
XXIX. Asleep or Awake.
XXX. "If after Every Tempest come such Calms!"