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Madame Midas
The opening of "Madame Midas" presents a dramatic and atmospheric setting, introducing the characters in two parallel narrative arcs.
"Madame Midas" by Fergus Hume is a novel. The opening of "Madame Midas" presents a dramatic and atmospheric setting, introducing the characters in two parallel narrative arcs.
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In the early days of Australia, when the gold fever was at its height, and the marvellous Melbourne of to-day was more like an enlarged camp than anything else, there was a man called Robert Curtis, who arrived in the new land of Ophir with many others to seek his fortune. Mr Curtis was of good family, but having been expelled from Oxford for holding certain unorthodox opinions quite at variance with the accepted theological tenets of the University, he had added to his crime by marrying a pretty girl, whose face was her fortune, and who was born, as the story books say, of poor but honest parents. Poverty and honesty, however, were not sufficient recommendations in the eyes of Mr Curtis, senior, to excuse such a match; so he promptly followed the precedent set by Oxford, and expelled his son from the family circle. That young gentleman and his wife came out to Australia filled with ambitious dreams of acquiring a fortune, and then of returning to heap coals of fire on the heads of those who had turned them out.
Contents
- 01Prologue — Cast Up by the Sea
- 02Part I.
- 03Chapter I. — the Pactolus Claim
- 04Chapter II. — Slivers
- 05Chapter III. — Madame Midas at Home
- 06Chapter IV. — the Good Samaritan
- 07Chapter V. — Mammon’s Treasure House
- 08Chapter VI. — Kitty
- 09Chapter VII. — Mr Villiers Pays a Visit
- 10Chapter VIII. — Madame Midas Strikes ‘Ile’
- 11Chapter IX. — Love’s Young Dream
- 12Chapter X. — Friends in Council
- 13Chapter XI. — Theodore Wopples, Actor
- 14Chapter XII. — Highway Robbery
- 15Chapter XIII. — a Glimpse of Bohemia
- 16Chapter XIV. — a Mysterious Disappearance
- 17Chapter XV. — Slivers in Search of Evidence
- 18Chapter XVI. — Mcintosh Speaks His Mind
- 19Chapter XVII. — the Best of Friends Must Part
- 20Chapter XVIII. — M. Vandeloup Is Unjustly Suspected
- 21Chapter XIX. — the Devil’s Lead
- 22Part II.
- 23Chapter I. — Tempus Fugit
- 24Chapter II. — Disenchantment
- 25Chapter III. — M. Vandeloup Hears Something to His Advantage
- 26Chapter IV. — the Case of Adele Blondet
- 27Chapter V. — the Key of the Street
- 28Chapter VI. — on Change
- 29Chapter VII. — the Opulence of Madame Midas
- 30Chapter VIII. — M. Vandeloup Is Surprised
- 31Chapter IX. — a Professional Philanthropist
- 32Chapter X. — in the Fernery
- 33Chapter XI. — the Vision of Miss Kitty Marchurst
- 34Chapter XII. — a Startling Discovery
- 35Chapter XIII. — Diamond Cut Diamond
- 36Chapter XIV. — Circumstantial Evidence
- 37Chapter XV. — Kismet
- 38Chapter XVI. — Be Sure Thy Sin Will Find Thee Out
- 39Epilogue -- the Wages of Sin
- 40Finis
About this edition
- Author
- Fergus Hume
- Language
- English
- Era
- Modern (c. 1800–1945)
- Reading level
- Intermediate: some philosophy helps
- Formats
- EPUB, PDF
- Length
- 325 pages
- This edition
- Modern Philosophers
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