Henry's ill-timed addresses with favour, or even with patience: she plainly and positively refused ...
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and the only kind thing he could do was to provide for me in my widowhood, like the true nobleman h...
the child whom she least liked. Sensible and resolute woman as she was, Mrs. Norbury shuddered with...
as she paid the man his fare. The next moment she had knocked at the house-door. 'Is Miss Lockwood ...
The scene-painter appeared to be puzzled by the vehement energy of the language addressed to him. '...
'Nothing is easier than to understand her,' he replied contemptuously. 'She knows what has become o...
It was reported that her ladyship's English maid had left her, before the disappearance of Ferrari,...
proposed to remove the body to England, to be buried in the family vault at Vange Abbey. I had und...
their hands in their pockets and send you a thousand pounds. Who is it--eh? I see the post-mark on ...
THE HAUNTED HOTEL A Mystery of Modern Venice by Wilkie Collins THE FIRST PART CHAPTER I In the ...
been productive of such deplorable results, that I cannot and dare not stir any further in the case...
even for his happiness--the firmness of it, I say, left him no hope. He appealed to my compassion; ...
informed us of the facts that follow: 'Lord Montbarry had been out of order for some time past-- n...
his own little stock of scandal to the memoirs of the Countess. It was doubtful whether she was rea...
they know about Agnes Lockwood.' 'Well, but where is he going?' 'To Scotland.' 'Does she like that?...