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《The New Magdalen》Chapter 18 - The Search In The Grounds
Wilkie Collins The New Magdalen whodunit
2008/7/15
GRACE ROSEBERRY, still listening in the conservatory, saw the door open, and recognized the mistress of the house. She softly drew back, and placed herself in safer hiding, beyond the range of view fr...
《The New Magdalen》Chapter 17 - The Guardian Angel
Wilkie Collins The New Magdalen whodunit
2008/7/15
"You were here when I fainted, were you not?" Mercy began. "You must think me a sad coward, even for a woman."
He shook his head. "I am far from thinking that, "he replied. "No courage could have ...
ABSORBED in herself, Mercy failed to notice the opening door or to hear the murmur of voices in the conservatory.
The one terrible necessity which had been present to her mind at intervals for a w...
HAVING warmed his feet to his own entire satisfaction, Horace turned round from the fireplace, and discovered that he and Lady Janet were alone.
"Can I see Grace?" he asked.
The easy tone in w...
《The New Magdalen》Chapter 14 - Coming Events Cast Their Shadows Before
Wilkie Collins The New Magdalen whodunit
2008/7/15
"I WENT first to Mannheim, Lady Janet, as I told you I should in my letter, and I heard all that the consul and the hospital doctors could tell me. No new fact of the slightest importance turned up. I...
A WEEK has passed. The scene opens again in the dining-room at Mablethorpe House.
The hospitable table bears once more its burden of good things for lunch. But on this occasion Lady Janet sits alo...
JULIAN happened to be standing nearest to Mercy. He was the first at her side when she fell.
In the cry of alarm which burst from him, as he raised her for a moment in his arms, in the expression ...
JUST inside the door there appeared the figure of a small woman dressed in plain and poor black garments. She silently lifted her black net veil and disclosed a dull, pale, worn, weary face. The foreh...
《The New Magdalen》Chapter 10 - A Council Of Three
Wilkie Collins The New Magdalen whodunit
2008/7/15
FOR a moment Horace stood thunderstruck, looking in blank astonishment at Lady Janet. His first words, as soon as he had recovered himself, were addressed to Julian. "Is this a joke?" he asked, sternl...
IT was a dark night. The rain was pouring in torrents.
Late in the evening a skirmishing party of the French and a skirmishing party of the Germans had met, by accident, near the little village of...
《The New Magdalen》Chapter 2 - Magdalen--In Modern Times
Wilkie Collins The New Magdalen whodunit
2008/7/14
"WHEN your mother was alive were you ever out with her after nightfall in the streets of a great city?"
In those extraordinary terms Mercy Merrick opened the confidential interview which Grace Ros...
A THIRD rifle-shot rang through the night air, close to the cottage. Grace started and approached the window in alarm.
"What does that firing mean?" she asked.
"Signals from the outposts," the...
Some letters, tied together with a ribbon, attracted Mercy's attention first. The ink in which the addresses were written had faded with age. The letters, directed alternately to Colonel Roseberry and...
THE youngest of the three strangers--judging by features, complexion, and manner--was apparently an Englishman. He wore a military cap and military boots, but was otherwise dressed as a civilian. Next...
《The New Magdalen》Chapter 6 - Lady Janet's Companion
Wilkie Collins The New Magdalen whodunit
2008/7/14
IT is a glorious winter's day. The sky is clear, the frost is hard, the ice bears for skating.
The dining-room of the ancient mansion called Mablethorpe House, situated in the London suburb of Ken...