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BLANCHE found her lover as attentive as usual to her slightest wish, but not in his customary good spirits. He pleaded fatigue, after his long watch at the cross-roads, as an excuse for his depression...
SIR PATRICK made a bad breakfast. Blanche's absence fretted him, and Anne Silvester's letter puzzled him.
He read it, short as it was, a second time, and a third. If it meant any thing, it meant t...
SIR PATRICK found his sister-in-law immersed in domestic business. Her ladyship's correspondence and visiting list, her ladyship's household bills and ledgers; her ladyship's Diary and Memorandum-book...
IT is the nature of Truth to struggle to the light. In more than one direction, the truth strove to pierce the overlying darkness, and to reveal itself to view, during the interval between the date of...
《Man and Wife 》Chapter 29 - Anne Among The Lawyers
Wilkie Collins Man and Wife deterctive story
2008/7/6
ON the day when Sir Patrick received the second of the two telegrams sent to him from Edinburgh, four respectable inhabitants of the City of Glasgow were startled by the appearance of an object of int...
BUT two persons were now left in the summer-house--Arnold Brinkworth and Sir Patrick Lundie.
"Mr. Brinkworth," said the old gentleman, "I have had no opportunity of speaking to you before this; an...
《Man and Wife 》Chapter 30 - Anne In The Newspapers
Wilkie Collins Man and Wife deterctive story
2008/7/6
MRS. KARNEGIE was a woman of feeble intelligence and violent temper; prompt to take offense, and not, for the most part, easy to appease. But Mrs. Karnegie being--as we all are in our various degrees-...
《Man and Wife 》Chapter 31 - Seeds Of The Future (First Sowing)
Wilkie Collins Man and Wife deterctive story
2008/7/6
"NOT SO large as Windygates. But--shall we say snug, Jones?"
"And comfortable, Smith. I quite agree with you."
Such was the judgment pronounced by the two choral gentlemen on Julius Delamayn's...
《Man and Wife 》Chapter 32 - Seeds Of The Future (Second Sowing)
Wilkie Collins Man and Wife deterctive story
2008/7/6
AND what did the visitors say of the Swans?
They said, "Oh, what a number of them!"--which was all that was to be said by persons ignorant of the natural history of aquatic birds.
And what did...
《Man and Wife 》Chapter 33 - Seeds Of The Future (Third Sowing)
Wilkie Collins Man and Wife deterctive story
2008/7/6
AFTER a new and attentive reading of Anne's letter to Geoffrey, and of Geoffrey's letter to Anne, Bishopriggs laid down comfortably under a tree, and set himself the task of seeing his position plainl...
THE time was the night before the marriage. The place was Sir Patrick's house in Kent.
The lawyers had kept their word. The settlements had been forwarded, and had been signed two days since.
...
THE promise of the weather-glass was fulfilled. The sun shone on Blanche's marriage.
At nine in the morning the first of the proceedings of the day began. It was essentially of a clandestine natur...
Two days after the marriage--on Wednesday, the ninth of September a packet of letters, received at Windygates, was forwarded by Lady Lundie's steward to Ham Farm.
With one exception, the letters w...
BREAKFAST was just over. Blanche, seeing a pleasantly-idle morning before her, proposed to Arnold to take a stroll in the grounds.
The garden was blight with sunshine, and the bride was bright wit...
《Man and Wife 》Chapter 38 - The News From Glasgow
Wilkie Collins Man and Wife deterctive story
2008/7/6
THE letters to Lady Lundie and to Mr. Crum having been dispatched on Monday, the return of the post might be looked for on Wednesday afternoon at Ham Farm.
Sir Patrick and Arnold held more than on...