Penny Dreadfuls, 1865 · page 7 of 204
Rose Mortimer; Or, The Ballet-Girl's Revenge — page 7: what you’re looking at
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# Contents Page from a Victorian Penny Dreadful This is a **contents page** listing the forty-six chapters of a serialized Victorian melodrama. The visible text itemizes chapter titles with corresponding page numbers, revealing a sensational narrative involving crime, villainy, and mystery. Key plot elements mentioned include: a ruffian and rescue, attempted murder, a duel, abduction, a mysterious "lonely house," counterfeiting, flogging, a theatre, coiners' den, a fatal duel in the wood, a character named Rose in captivity and peril, a danger mine, and various pursuits and narrow escapes. The accumulation of violent and dramatic chapter headings—murder, explosion, poisoning, death—exemplifies penny dreadful conventions of lurid sensation fiction designed to entertain working-class readers with serialized melodrama.
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CONTENTS. CHAPTER : PAGE I.—The Ruffian and his Victim—The Rescue - - ~ - - - 1 IY.—A Poor Girl’s Trials—The Midnight Assignation—The Attempted Murder—The Noble Forger - - - - E x - - - = ~ 3 i11.—Mysteries behind the Curtain—An awful Night—A Run for Life - 2 - -, «4 IV.—Glittering Vice—The Duel—Horsewhipped—The Profligate’s Vow —- - 8 V.—The Ballet-Girl’s Career—The First Sho as Abduction—The lonely HoiiveTH3 Ruffian —In the Lion’s Den - ~ - - ~ - - - 12 VI.—The Struggle in the Dark—The Fearful Leap—The EscipeThe Disguise - - VII.—The New Dress—The Dark Suspicion—The Abduction—The Villain and his Companions— The Appeal - = é 3 = e: i “ - 2 © 18 VILI.—Edgar Deville—The Mysteries of the Lonely House—The Punishment of Curiosity - 20 IX.—The Escape over the Roof—The Perjured Villain—Again a Prisoner - - = 22 X.—The Inner Chamber—The Gang—The First Crime—The Counterfeit Half-Crown - 26 XI.—The Apparition—Homeless, Penniless, and Friendless—Aaron Heine the Jew—Miriam—The Flogging in the Attic - - - - - ~ - me 28 XII.—The Mysterious Departure—Miriam Flogged to Death =k Moment of Terror - - ol XIII.—More Mysteries—Adventures in the Old Jew’s House—The Dead brought back to Life = 84 XIV.—The Low Theatre—The Toilet—The Signora—A Dead Woman’s Clothes—The Outrage - oT XV.—The Rabble—‘ Fire! Fire!”—The Mysterious Conversation—The First Glimpse of a Dark Plot =—39 XVI.—A Strangé Scene in the Green-room—The Murdered Beauty - - = - - 42 XVII.—More of the Coiners’ Den—Deville meditates Escape—The Mysterious Disappearance—A Moment of Danger o aamele - - - - - 2 a 44 XVIII.—Edgar and the Coiners—The Doomed Traitor—The Fearful Death - - - = -46 XIX.—The Fatal Duel in the Wood - - = = - - 49 XX.—Clara and the Count—The “ Beautiful Fiend "The Hor rible Doom - - - - 61 XXI.—The Mysteries Explained - - - - - - - - 55 XXITI.—The Count Goes a Useless Journey—The Fire—The Expedition of the Police - 5-56 XXITI.—The Attack on the Coiners’ Den—The Struggle—The Explosion - = = - 58 XXTV.—Rose a Captive—The Attempted Escape—Again a Prisoner = - - - - - 60 XXV.—In the “ Black Country ’’—Another Struggle for Liberty - - - = = 63 XXVI.—Flight Interrupted—The Sleeping Chambermaid—Robbery—The Alarm Bell - - - 64 XXVIT.—Flight—Pursuit—A Compact of Blood—Deville’s Doom—Rose Escapes—The Lone House on the Moor - - - - - - - - - 66 XXVIII.—A Nest of Ruftians—The Quar Reo Murder—Rose Accused—* Death to Her!” - = 68 XXIX.—Clara’s Victim—The Ship on Fire—On the Rocks—The Meditated Murder - - 69 XXX.—Rose’s Peril—Her Fate Discussed—The Doom—The River—The Splash = - Se 71 XXXI.—The Tree by the River—A Bold Swimmer—A Rescue—Failure_ - - - - 72 XXXII.—Rose Borne Away—A Strange Hiding-place—Rose Disappeared—The Danger Mine - se 74 XXXIII.—Rose Recovets—‘t Where am [ ?”—A Fearful Position—Blind—The Miner—The Fatal Pit 75 XXXIV.—Penryth—A Fearful Strife—The Danger Mine Earns its Title - - - - Pe ey i | XXXV.—A Glimpse at Prevailing Sensation—Mermet the Arab—A Necromancer’s Séances - 79 XXXVI.—The Fall of the Mine—Excavation—Three Bodies Found—One Lives—The Whartons—Death -—Flight—Liberty = - - - - - 84 XXXVII.—Mermet Again—The Perfumed Bouquet Tig Spell—The ‘Pr cof —The Test - 87 XXXVIII.—The Flight—Exhaustion and Suffering—True Charity—The Drama Again—The Gar rae The ° Mask—*“ Let’s Follow !” = ~ a = 3 - * - = 5-91 XXXIX.—Two Masks—The Assassin—Horrors—Nearly Discovered - = - - - ~ 94 XL.—The Mask Ageine=-Mar row Bevapex The Mask Unmasked—The Watcher’s Watched—Chowler’s Love - = = - 96 XLI.—Three Masks—The Ladder—F light —Chowler’ S Resolve—The Abauction—Cho#ler’ 8 Fears 99 XLII.—Ten o’clock Rehearsal—Miss Mortimer Wanting—A Sane Story—The Opening Perform- ance—A Private Box - - = = = = - 101 XLIII.—The Card Table—High Stakes—A Good Shot—The Dich: on Hampstead Heath - - 104 XLIV.—Mermet—The Poison Traftic—A Dark Secret—The Veiled Visitors—The Old Story - 108 XLV.—Mermet’s Plans—The Ganden=-Digeme the Grave—A Mother’s Woe—A Fatal Strategem— Poisoned - - - 3 "111 XLVI,—Clara St. John—After the Wreck—T Kg jonele—Temptation= The Shipwrecked Mariner—A Struggle for Life - ~ - - - - - - - .