[Italics are indicatedby underscores
James Rusk, jrusk@cyberramp.net.]





THE NEW MAGDALEN

by Wilkie Collins




TO THE MEMORY OF CHARLES ALLSTON COLLINS. (9th April, 1873.)




FIRST SCENE.

The Cottage on the Frontier.


PREAMBLE.

THE place is France.

The time is autumn, in the year eighteen hundred and seventy--the
year of the war between France and Germany.