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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...
"You look very pale this morning, my child."
Mercy sighed wearily. "I am not well," she answered. "The slightest noises startle me. I feel tired if I only walk across the room."
Lady Janet pat...
After an interval of rest Mercy was aroused by the shutting of a glass door at the far end of the conservatory. This door, leading into the garden, was used only by the inmates of the house, or by old...
LADY JANET'S curiosity was by this time thoroughly aroused. Summoned to explain who the nameless lady mentioned in his letter could possibly be, Julian had looked at her adopted daughter. Asked next t...
《An Old-Fashioned Girl》Chapter 1 - Polly Arrives
Louisa May Alcott An Old-Fashioned Girl river novel
2008/7/14
"IT 'S time to go to the station, Tom."
"Come on, then."
"Oh, I 'm not going; it 's too wet. Should n't have a crimp left if I went out such a day as this; and I want to look nice when Polly com...
《An Old-Fashioned Girl》Chapter 10 - Needles And Tongues
Louisa May Alcott An Old-Fashioned Girl river novel
2008/7/14
DEAR POLLY, The Sewing Circle meets at our house this P. M. This is in your line, so do come and help me through. I shall depend on you.
Yours ever, FAN.
"Bad news, my dear?" asked Miss Mills, w...
《An Old-Fashioned Girl》Chapter 11 - Forbidden Fruit
Louisa May Alcott An Old-Fashioned Girl river novel
2008/7/14
"I 'M perfectly aching for some fun," said Polly to herself as she opened her window one morning and the sunshine and frosty air set her blood dancing and her eyes sparkling with youth, health, and ov...
《An Old-Fashioned Girl》Chapter 12 - The Sunny Side
Louisa May Alcott An Old-Fashioned Girl river novel
2008/7/14
"I 'VE won the wager, Tom."
"Did n't know there was one."
"Don't you remember you said Polly would be tired of her teaching and give it up in three months, and I said she would n't?"
"Well, i...