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The Dead Secret
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Author : Wilkie Collins
language : en
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2018-09-20
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Author : Wilkie Collins
language : en
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Release Date : 1893
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Author : Wilkie Collins
language : en
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Release Date : 1800
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Author : Wilkie Collins
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 1857
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The secret of the title is the parentage of the heroine, Rosamund Treverton, who has been passed off as the daughter of the wealthy former actress Mrs Treverton of Porthgenna Tower, but is in fact the illegitimate child of her servant Sarah Leeson by a local miner (Mrs Treverton's motive was to provide her husband with a child, being apparently unable to bear children herself). Sarah writes down the details of the secret from the words of the dying Mrs Treverton, and hides the paper bearing the message in an unused room at Porthgenna. The novel then jumps forward some twenty years. Rosamund has married the blind Leonard Frankland, who now owns Porthgenna Tower. Sarah, under an assumed name, obtains a post as servant to the family, and gives Rosamund a cryptic warning to avoid the room in which the Secret is hidden. On a visit to Porthgenna, Rosamund finds the paper detailing the Secret and reveals it to Leonard. Leonard, who was originally deceived into thinking Rosamund was a wealthy heiress, accepts that his wife is illegitimate, but refuses to accept her inheritance. In the course of things, this would now pass to Mrs Treverton's miserly brother Andrew (whose introduction, together with his villainous servant, provides some comic relief in the novel). But Andrew Treverton, somewhat out of character, refuses to accept the windfall and Rosamund remains the heiress of the Trevertons in the expected happy ending.
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Author : Wilkie Collins
language : en
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Release Date : 1876
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Author : Wilkie Collins
language : en
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Release Date : 2011
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Author : Wilkie Collins
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-03-21
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What shock had stricken her hair, in the very maturity of its luxuriance, with the hue of an unnatural old age? Was it a serious illness, or a dreadful grief, that had turned her gray in the prime of her womanhood? That question had often been agitated among her fellow-servants, who were all struck by the peculiarities of her personal appearance, and rendered a little suspicious of her, as well, by an inveterate habit that she had of talking to herself. Inquire as they might, however, their curiosity was always baffled. Nothing more could be discovered than that Sarah Leeson was, in the common phrase, touchy on the subject of her gray hair and her habit of talking to herself, and that Sarah Leeson's mistress had long since forbidden every one, from her husband downward, to ruffle her maid's tranquillity by inquisitive questions.
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Author : Wilkie Collins
language : en
Publisher: Salzwasser-Verlag
Release Date : 2023-06-11
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Author : Wilkie Collins
language : en
Publisher: Nabu Press
Release Date : 2014-03
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Author : Wilkie Collins
language : en
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Release Date : 2020-06-02
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"Will she last out the night, I wonder?""Look at the clock, Mathew.""Ten minutes past twelve! She HAS lasted the night out. She has lived, Robert, to see ten minutes of the new day."These words were spoken in the kitchen of a large country-house situated on the west coast of Cornwall. The speakers were two of the men-servants composing the establishment of Captain Treverton, an officer in the navy, and the eldest male representative of an old Cornish family. Both the servants communicated with each other restrainedly, in whispers-sitting close together, and looking round expectantly toward the door whenever the talk flagged between them."It's an awful thing," said the elder of the men, "for us two to be alone here, at this dark time, counting out the minutes that our mistress has left to live!""Robert," said the other, "you have been in the service here since you were a boy-did you ever hear that our mistress was a play-actress when our master married her?"