No. 61.] SATURDAY,
JUNE 23, 1860 [PRICE 2d.
THE WOMAN IN WHITE.
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PART THE SECOND. HARTRIGHT'S NARRATIVE.
Thus
far, the information which I had received from Mrs. Clements—though it
established facts of which I had not previously been aware—was of a
preliminary character only. It was clear that the series of deceptions which
had removed Anne Catherick to London and separated her from Mrs. Clements,
had been accomplished solely by Count Fosco and the Countess; and the
question whether any part of the conduct of husband or wife had been of a
kind to place either of them within reach of the law, might be well worthy
of future consideration. But the purpose I had now in view led me in another
direction than this. The immediate object of my visit to Mrs. Clements was
to make some approach at least to the discovery of Sir Percival’s secret;
and she had said nothing, as yet, which advanced me on my way to that
important end. I felt the necessity of trying to awaken her recollections of
other times, persons, and events, than those on which her memory had
hitherto been employed; and, when I next spoke, I spoke with that object
indirectly in view.
“I wish I could be of any help to you in this sad
calamity,” I said. “All I can do is to feel heartily for your distress. If
Anne had been your own child, Mrs. Clements, you could have shown her no
truer kindness—you could have made no readier sacrifices for her sake.”
“There’s no great merit in that, sir,” said Mrs.
Clements, simply. “The poor thing was as good as my own child to me. I
nursed her from a baby, sir; bringing her up by hand—and a hard job it was
to rear her. It wouldn’t go to my heart so to lose her, if I hadn’t made her
first short-clothes, and taught her to walk. I always said she was sent to
console me for never having chick or child of my own. And now she’s lost,
the old times keep coming back to my mind; and, even at my age, I can’t help
crying about her—I can’t indeed, sir!”
I waited a little to give Mrs. Clements time to compose
herself. Was the light that I had been looking for so long, now glimmering
on me—far off, as yet—in the good woman’s recollections of Anne’s early
life?
“Did you know Mrs. Catherick before Anne was born?” I
asked.
“Not very long, sir—not above four months. We saw a
great deal of each other in that time, but we were never very friendly
together.”
Her voice was steadier as she made that reply. Painful
as many of her recollections might be, I observed that it was,
unconsciously, a relief to her mind to revert to the dimly-seen troubles of
the past, after dwelling so long on the vivid sorrows of the present.
“Were you and Mrs. Catherick neighbours?” I inquired,
leading her memory on, as encouragingly as I could.
“Yes, sir—neighbours at Old Welmingham.”
“Old
Welmingham? There are two places of that name, then, in Hampshire?”
“Well, sir, there used to be in those days—better than
three-and-twenty years ago. They built a new town about two miles off,
convenient to the river—and Old Welmingham, which was never much more than a
village, got in time to be deserted. The new town is the place they call
Welmingham, now—but the old parish church is the parish church still. It
stands by itself, with the houses pulled down, or gone to ruin, all round
it. I’ve lived to see sad changes. It was a pleasant, pretty place in my
time.”
“Did you live there before your marriage, Mrs.
Clements?”
“No, sir—I’m a Norfolk woman. It wasn’t the place my
husband belonged to, either. He was from Grimsby, as I told you; and he
served his apprenticeship there. But having friends down south, and hearing
of an opening, he got into business at Southampton. It was in a small way,
but he made enough for a plain man to retire on, and settled at Old
Welmingham. I went there with him, when he married me. We were neither of us
young; but we lived very happy together—happier than our neighbour, Mr.
Catherick, lived along with his wife, when they came to Old Welmingham, a
year or two afterwards.”
“Was your husband acquainted with them before that?”
“With Catherick, sir—not with his wife. She was a
stranger to both of us. Some gentlemen had made interest for Catherick; and
he got the situation of clerk at Welmingham church, which was the reason of
his coming to settle in our neighbourhood. He brought his newly-married wife
along with him; and we heard, in course of time, she had been lady’s maid in
a great family that lived at Varneck Hall, near Southampton. Catherick had
found it a hard matter to get her to marry him—in consequence of her holding
herself uncommonly high. He had asked and asked, and given the thing up at
last, seeing she was so contrary about it. When he
had given it up, she turned
contrary, just the other way, and came to him of her own accord, without
rhyme or reason seemingly. My poor husband always said that was the time to
have given her a lesson. But Catherick was too fond of her to do anything of
the sort; he never checked her, either before they were married or after. He
was a quick man in his feelings, letting them carry him a deal too far, now
in one way, and now in another; and he would have spoilt a better wife than
Mrs. Catherick, if a better had married him. I don’t like to speak ill of
any one, sir—but she was a heartless woman, with a terrible will of her own;
fond of foolish admiration and fine clothes, and not caring to show so much
as decent outward respect to Catherick, kindly as he always treated her. My
husband said he thought things would turn out badly, when they first came to
live near us; and his words proved true. Before they had been quite four
months in our neighbourhood, there was a dreadful scandal and a miserable
break-up in their household. Both of them were in fault—I am afraid both of
them were equally in fault.”
“You mean both husband and wife?”
“Oh, no, sir! I don’t mean Catherick—he was only to be
pitied. I meant his wife, and the person——”
“And the person who caused the scandal?”
“Yes, sir. A gentleman born and brought up, who ought
to have set a better example. You know him, sir—and my poor, dear Anne knew
him, only too well.”
“Sir Percival Glyde?”
“Yes, Sir Percival Glyde.”
My heart beat fast—I thought I had my hand on the clue.
How little I knew, then, of the windings of the labyrinth which were still
to mislead me!
“Did Sir Percival live in your neighbourhood at that
time?” I asked.
“No, sir. He came among us as a stranger. His father
had died, not long before, in foreign parts. I remember he was in mourning.
He put up at the little inn on the river (they have pulled it down since
that time), where gentlemen used to go to fish. He wasn’t much noticed when
he first came—it was a common thing enough for gentlemen to travel, from all
parts of England, to fish in our river.”
“Did he make his appearance in the village before Anne
was born?”
“Yes, sir. Anne was born in the June month of eighteen
hundred and twenty-seven—and I think he came at the end of April, or the
beginning of May.”
“Came as a stranger to all of you? A stranger to Mrs.
Catherick, as well as to the rest of the neighbours?”
“So we thought at first, sir. But when the scandal
broke out, nobody believed they were strangers. I remember how it happened,
as well as if it was yesterday. Catherick came into our garden one night,
and woke us with throwing up a handful of gravel from the walk, at our
window. I heard him beg my husband, for the Lord’s sake, to come down and
speak to him. They were a long time together talking in the porch. When my
husband came back up-stairs, he was all of a tremble. He sat down on the
side of the bed, and he says to me, ‘Lizzie! I always told you that woman
was a bad one; I always said she would end ill—and I’m afraid, in my own
mind, that the end has come already. Catherick has found a lot of lace
handkerchiefs, and two fine rings, and a new gold watch and chain, hid away
in his wife’s drawer—things that nobody but a born lady ought ever to
have—and his wife won’t say how she came by them.’ ‘Does he think she stole
them?’ says I. ‘No,’ says he, ‘stealing would be bad enough. But it’s worse
than that—she’s had no chance of stealing such things as those, and she’s
not a woman to take them, if she had. They’re gifts, Lizzie—there’s her own
initials engraved inside the watch—and Catherick has seen her, talking
privately, and carrying on as no married woman should, with that gentleman
in mourning—Sir Percival Glyde. Don’t you say anything about it—I’ve quieted
Catherick for to-night. I’ve told him to keep his tongue to himself, and his
eyes and his ears open, and to wait a day or two, till he can be quite
certain.’ ‘I believe you are both of you wrong,’ says I. ‘It’s not in
nature, comfortable and respectable as she is here, that Mrs. Catherick
should take up with a chance stranger like Sir Percival Glyde.’ ‘Ay, but is
he a stranger to her?’ says my husband. ‘You forget how Catherick’s wife
came to marry him. She went to him of her own accord, after saying No, over
and over again, when he asked her. There have been wicked women, before her
time, Lizzie, who have used honest men who loved them as a means of saving
their characters—and I’m sorely afraid this Mrs. Catherick is as wicked as
the worst of them. We shall see,’ says my husband, ‘we shall soon see.’ And
only two days afterwards, we did see.”
Mrs. Clements waited for a moment, before she went on.
Even in that moment, I began to doubt whether the clue that I thought I had
found was really leading me to the central mystery of the labyrinth, after
all. Was this common, too common, story of a man’s treachery and a woman’s
frailty the key to a secret which had been the life-long terror of Sir
Percival Glyde?
“Well, sir, Catherick took my husband’s advice, and
waited,” Mrs. Clements continued. “And, as I told you, he hadn’t long to
wait. On the second day, he found his wife and Sir Percival whispering
together, quite familiar, close under the vestry of the church. I suppose
they thought the neighbourhood of the vestry was the last place in the world
where anybody would think of looking after them—but, however that may be,
there they were. Sir Percival, being seemingly surprised and confounded,
defended himself in such a guilty way, that poor Catherick (whose quick
temper I have told you of already) fell into a kind of frenzy at his own
disgrace, and struck Sir Percival. He was no match (and I am sorry to say
it) for the man who had wronged him—and he was beaten in the cruelest
manner, before the neighbours, who had come to the place on hearing the
disturbance, could run in to part them. All this happened towards evening;
and, before nightfall, when my husband went to Catherick’s house, he was
gone, nobody knew where. No living soul in the village ever saw him again.
He knew too well, by that time, what his wife’s vile reason had been for
marrying him; and he felt his misery and disgrace—especially after what had
happened to him with Sir Percival—too keenly. The clergyman of the parish
put an advertisement in the paper, begging him to come back, and saying that
he should not lose his situation or his friends. But Catherick had too much
pride and spirit, as some people said—too much feeling, as I think, sir—to
face his neighbours again, and try to live down the memory of his disgrace.
My husband heard from him, when he had left England; and heard a second
time, when he was settled, and doing well, in America. He is alive there
now, as far as I know; but none of us in the old country—his wicked wife
least of all—are ever likely to set eyes on him again.”
“What became of Sir Percival?” I inquired. “Did he stay
in the neighbourhood?”
“Not he, sir. The place was too hot to hold him. He was
heard at high words with Mrs. Catherick, the same night when the scandal
broke out—and the next morning he took himself off.”
“And Mrs. Catherick? Surely she never remained in the
village, among the people who knew of her disgrace?”
“She did, sir. She was hard enough and heartless enough
to set the opinions of all her neighbours at flat defiance. She declared to
everybody, from the clergyman downwards, that she was the victim of a
dreadful mistake, and that all the scandal-mongers in the place should not
drive her out of it as if she was a guilty woman. All through my time, she
lived at Old Welmingham; and, after my time, when the new town was building,
and the respectable neighbours began moving to it, she moved too, as if she
was determined to live among them and scandalise them to the very last.
There she is now, and there she will stop, in defiance of the best of them,
to her dying day.”
“But how has she lived, through all these years?” I
asked. “Was her husband able and willing to help her?”
“Both able and willing, sir,” said Mrs. Clements. “In
the second letter he wrote to my good man, he said she had borne his name,
and lived in his home, and, wicked as she was, she must not starve like a
beggar in the street. He could afford to make her some small allowance, and
she might draw for it quarterly, at a place in London.”
“Did she accept the allowance?”
“Not a farthing of it, sir. She said she would never be
beholden to Catherick for bit or drop, if she lived to be a hundred. And she
has kept her word ever since. When my poor dear husband died, and left all
to me, Catherick’s letter was put in my possession with the other things—and
I told her to let me know if she was ever in want. ‘I’ll let all England
know I’m in want,’ she said, ‘before I tell Catherick, or any friend of
Catherick’s. Take that for your answer—and give it to
him for an answer, if he ever
writes again.’”
“Do you suppose that she had money of her own?”
“Very little, if any, sir. It was said, and said truly,
I am afraid, that her means of living came privately from Sir Percival Glyde.”
After that last reply, I waited a little, to reconsider
what I had heard. If I unreservedly accepted the story so far, it was now
plain that no approach, direct or indirect, to the Secret had yet been
revealed to me, and that the pursuit of my object had ended again in leaving
me face to face with the most palpable and the most disheartening failure.
But there was one point in the narrative which made me
doubt the propriety of accepting it unreservedly, and which suggested the
idea of something hidden below the surface.
I could not account to myself for the circumstance of
the clerk’s guilty wife voluntarily living out all her after-existence on
the scene of her disgrace. The woman’s own reported statement that she had
taken this strange course as a practical assertion of her innocence, did not
satisfy me. It seemed, to my mind, more natural and more probable to assume
that she was not so completely a free agent in this matter as she had
herself asserted. In that case, who was the likeliest person to possess the
power of compelling her to remain at Welmingham? The person unquestionably
from whom she derived the means of living. She had refused assistance from
her husband, she had no adequate resources of her own, she was a friendless,
disgraced woman: from what source should she derive help but from the source
at which report pointed—Sir Percival Glyde?
Reasoning on these assumptions, and always bearing in
mind the one certain fact to guide me, that Mrs. Catherick was in possession
of the Secret, I easily understood that it was Sir Percival’s interest to
keep her at Welmingham, because her character in that place was certain to
isolate her from all communication with female neighbours, and to allow her
no opportunities of talking incautiously, in moments of free intercourse
with inquisitive bosom friends. But what was the mystery to be concealed?
Not Sir Percival’s infamous connexion with Mrs. Catherick’s disgrace—for the
neighbours were the very people who knew of it. Not the suspicion that he
was Anne’s father—for Welmingham was the place in which that suspicion must
inevitably exist. If I accepted the guilty appearances described to me, as
unreservedly as others had accepted them; if I drew from them the same
superficial conclusion which Mr. Catherick and all his neighbours had
drawn—where was the suggestion, in all that I had heard, of a dangerous
secret between Sir Percival and Mrs. Catherick, which had been kept hidden
from that time to this?
And yet, in those stolen meetings, in those familiar
whisperings between the clerk’s wife and “the gentleman in mourning,” the
clue to discovery existed beyond a doubt.
Was it possible that appearances, in this case, had
pointed one way, while the truth lay, all the while, unsuspected, in another
direction? Could Mrs. Catherick’s assertion that she was the victim of a
dreadful mistake, by any possibility be true? Or, assuming it to be false,
could the conclusion which associated Sir Percival with her guilt have been
founded in some inconceivable error? Had Sir Percival, by any chance,
courted the suspicion that was wrong, for the sake of diverting from himself
some other suspicion that might be right? Here, if I could find it—here was
the approach to the Secret, hidden deep under the surface of the apparently
unpromising story which I had just heard.
My next questions were now directed to the one object
of ascertaining whether Mr. Catherick had, or had not, arrived truly at the
conviction of his wife’s misconduct. The answers I received from Mrs
Clements, left me in no doubt whatever on that point. Mrs. Catherick had, on
the clearest evidence, compromised her reputation, while a single woman,
with some person unknown; and had married to save her character. It had been
positively ascertained, by calculations of time and place into which I need
not enter particularly, that the daughter who bore her husband’s name was
not her husband’s child.
The next object of inquiry, whether it was equally
certain that Sir Percival must have been the father of Anne, was beset by
far greater difficulties. I was in no position to try the probabilities on
one side or on the other, in this instance, by any better test than the test
of personal resemblance.
“I suppose you often saw Sir Percival, when he was in
your village?” I said.
“Yes, sir—very often,” replied Mrs. Clements.
“Did you ever observe that Anne was like him?”
“She was not at all like him, sir.”
“Was she like her mother, then?”
“Not like her mother, either, sir. Mrs. Catherick was
dark, and full in the face.”
Not like her mother, and not like her (supposed)
father. I knew that the test by personal resemblance was not to be
implicitly trusted—but, on the other hand, it was not to be altogether
rejected on that account. Was it possible to strengthen the evidence, by
discovering any conclusive facts in relation to the lives of Mrs. Catherick
and Sir Percival, before they either of them appeared at Old Welmingham?
When I asked my next questions, I put them with this view.
“When Sir Percival first appeared in your
neighbourhood,” I said, “did you hear where he had come from last?”
“No, sir. Some said from Blackwater Park, and some said
from Scotland—but nobody knew.”
“Was Mrs. Catherick living in service at Varneck Hall,
immediately before her marriage?”
“Yes, sir.”
“And had she been long in her place?”
“Three or four years, sir; I am not quite certain
which.”
“Did you ever hear the name of the gentleman to whom
Varneck Hall belonged at that time?”
“Yes, sir. His name was Major Donthorne.”
“Did Mr. Catherick, or did any one else you knew, ever
hear that Sir Percival was a friend of Major Donthorne’s, or ever see Sir
Percival in the neighbourhood of Varneck Hall?”
“Catherick never did, sir, that I can remember—nor any
one else, either, that I know of.”
I noted down Major Donthorne’s name and address, on the
chance that he might still be alive, and that it might be useful, at some
future time, to apply to him. Meanwhile, the impression on my mind was now
decidedly adverse to the opinion that Sir Percival was Anne’s father, and
decidedly favourable to the conclusion that the secret of his stolen
interviews with Mrs. Catherick was entirely unconnected with the disgrace
which the woman had inflicted on her husband’s good name. I could think of
no further inquiries which I might make to strengthen this impression—I
could only encourage Mrs. Clements to speak next of Anne’s early days, and
watch for any chance-suggestion which might in this way offer itself to me.
“I have not heard yet,” I said, “how the poor child,
born in all this sin and misery, came to be trusted, Mrs. Clements, to your
care.”
“There was nobody else, sir, to take the little
helpless creature in hand,” replied Mrs. Clements. “The wicked mother seemed
to hate it—as if the poor baby was in fault!—from the day it was born. My
heart was heavy for the child; and I made the offer to bring it up as
tenderly as if it was my own.”
“Did Anne remain entirely under your care, from that
time?”
“Not quite entirely, sir. Mrs. Catherick had her whims
and fancies about it, at times; and used now and then to lay claim to the
child, as if she wanted to spite me for bringing it up. But these fits of
hers never lasted for long. Poor little Anne was always returned to me, and
was always glad to get back—though she led but a gloomy life in my house,
having no playmates, like other children, to brighten her up. Our longest
separation was when her mother took her to Limmeridge. Just at that time, I
lost my husband; and I felt it was as well, in that miserable affliction,
that Anne should not be in the house. She was between ten and eleven year
old, then; slow at her lessons, poor soul, and not so cheerful as other
children—but as pretty a little girl to look at as you would wish to see. I
waited at home till her mother brought her back; and then I made the offer
to take her with me to London—the truth being, sir, that I could not find it
in my heart to stop at Old Welmingham, after my husband’s death, the place
was so changed and so dismal to me.”
“And did Mrs. Catherick consent to your proposal?”
“No, sir. She came back from the north, harder and
bitterer than ever. Folks did say that she had been obliged to ask Sir
Percival’s leave to go, to begin with; and that she only went to nurse her
dying sister at Limmeridge because the poor woman was reported to have saved
money—the truth being that she hardly left enough to bury her. These things
may have soured Mrs. Catherick, likely enough—but, however that may be, she
wouldn’t hear of my taking the child away. She seemed to like distressing us
both by parting us. All I could do was to give Anne my direction, and to
tell her, privately, if she was ever in trouble, to come to me. But years
passed before she was free to come. I never saw her again, poor soul, till
the night she escaped from the mad-house.”
“You know, Mrs. Clements, why Sir Percival Glyde shut
her up?”
“I only know what Anne herself told me, sir. The poor
thing used to ramble and wander about it, sadly. She said her mother had got
some secret of Sir Percival’s to keep, and had let it out to her, long after
I left Hampshire—and when Sir Percival found she knew it, he shut her up.
But she never could say what it was, when I asked her. All she could tell me
was that her mother might be the ruin and destruction of Sir Percival, if
she chose. Mrs. Catherick may have let out just as much as that, and no
more. I’m next to certain I should have heard the whole truth from Anne, if
she had really known it, as she pretended to do—and as she very likely
fancied she did, poor soul.”
This idea had more than once occurred to my own mind. I
had already told Marian that I doubted whether Laura was really on the point
of making any important discovery when she and Anne Catherick were disturbed
by Count Fosco at the boat-house. It was perfectly in character with Anne’s
mental affliction that she should assume an absolute knowledge of the Secret
on no better grounds than vague suspicion, derived from hints which her
mother had incautiously let drop in her presence. Sir Percival’s guilty
distrust would, in that case, infallibly inspire him with the false idea
that Anne knew all from her mother, just as it had afterwards fixed in his
mind the equally false suspicion that his wife knew all from Anne.
The time was passing; the morning was wearing away. It
was doubtful, if I stayed longer, whether I should hear anything more from
Mrs. Clements that would be at all useful to my purpose. I had already
discovered those local and family particulars, in relation to Mrs. Catherick,
of which I had been in search; and I had arrived at certain conclusions,
entirely new to me, which might immensely assist in directing the course of
my future proceedings. I rose to take my leave, and to thank Mrs. Clements
for the friendly readiness she had shown in affording me information.
“I am afraid you must have thought me very
inquisitive,” I said. “I have troubled you with more questions than many
people would have cared to answer.”
“You are heartily welcome, sir, to anything I can tell
you,” answered Mrs. Clements. She stopped, and looked at me wistfully. “But
I do wish,” said the poor woman, “you could have told me a little more about
Anne, sir. I thought I saw something in your face, when you came in, which
looked as if you could. You can’t think how hard it is not even to know
whether she is living or dead. I could bear it better, if I was only
certain. You said you never expected we should see her alive again. Do you
know, sir—do you know for truth—that it has pleased God to take her?”
I was not proof against this appeal: it would have been
unspeakably mean and cruel of me if I had resisted it.
“I am afraid there is no doubt of the truth,” I
answered, gently; “I have the certainty, in my own mind, that her troubles
in this world are over.”
The poor woman dropped into her chair, and hid her face
from me. “Oh, sir,” she said, “how do you know it? Who can have told you?”
“No one has told me, Mrs. Clements. But I have reasons
for feeling sure of it—reasons which I promise you shall know, as soon as I
can safely explain them. I am certain she was not neglected in her last
moments; I am certain the heart-complaint, from which she suffered so sadly,
was the true cause of her death. You shall feel as sure of this as I do,
soon—you shall know, before long, that she is buried in a quiet country
churchyard; in a pretty, peaceful place, which you might have chosen for her
yourself.”
“Dead!” said Mrs. Clements; “dead so young—and I am
left to hear it! I made her first short frocks. I taught her to walk. The
first time she ever said, Mother, she said it to
me—and, now, I am left, and Anne
is taken! Did you say, sir,” said the poor woman, removing the handkerchief
from her face, and looking up at me for the first time—”did you say that she
had been nicely buried? Was it the sort of funeral she might have had, if
she had really been my own child?”
I assured her that it was. She seemed to take an
inexplicable pride in my answer—to find a comfort in it, which no other and
higher considerations could afford. “It would have broken my heart,” she
said, simply, “if Anne had not been nicely buried—but, how do you know it,
sir? who told you?” I once more entreated her to wait until I could speak to
her more unreservedly. “You are sure to see me again,” I said; “for I have a
favour to ask, when you are a little more composed—perhaps in a day or two.”
“Don’t keep it waiting, sir, on my account,” said Mrs.
Clements. “Never mind my crying, if I can be of use. If you have anything on
your mind to say to me, sir—please to say it now.”
“I only wished to ask you one last question,” I said.
“I only wanted to know Mrs. Catherick’s address at Welmingham.”
My request so startled Mrs. Clements, that, for the
moment, even the tidings of Anne’s death seemed to be driven from her mind.
Her tears suddenly ceased to flow, and she sat looking at me in blank
amazement.
“For the Lord’s sake, sir!” she said, “what do you want
with Mrs. Catherick?”
“I want this, Mrs. Clements,” I replied: “I want to
know the secret of those private meetings of hers with Sir Percival Glyde.
There is something more, in what you have told me of that woman’s past
conduct and of that man’s past relations with her, than you, or any of your
neighbours, ever suspected. There is a Secret we none of us know of between
those two—and I am going to Mrs. Catherick, with the resolution to find it
out.”
“Think twice about it, sir!” said Mrs. Clements,
rising, in her earnestness, and laying her hand on my arm. “She’s an awful
woman—you don’t know her, as I do. Think twice about it.”
“I am sure your warning is kindly meant, Mrs. Clements.
But I am determined to see the woman, whatever comes of it.”
Mrs. Clements looked me anxiously in the face.
“I see your mind is made up, sir,” she said. “I will
give you the address.”
I wrote it down in my pocket-book; and then took the
good woman by the hand, to say farewell.
“You shall hear from me, soon,” I said; “you shall know
all that I have promised to tell you.”
Mrs. Clements sighed and shook her head doubtfully.
“An old woman’s advice is sometimes worth taking, sir,”
she said. “Think twice before you go to Welmingham.”
All The Year Round, 23 June 1860, Vol.III, No.61, pp.241-246
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