Madelon

A Novel

By

Mary E. Wilkins

Author of "A Humble Romance"
"Jane Field" etc.

New York
Harper & Brothers Publishers
1896




Love is the crown, and the crucifixion, of life,
and proves thereby its own divinity.




Chapter I


There was a new snow over the village. Indeed, it had ceased to fall
only at sunset, and it was now eight o'clock. It was heaped
apparently with the lightness of foam on the windward sides of the