A plot in private life E-Book

Wilkie Collins

• Herausgeber: FV Éditions
• Kategorie: Krimi
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2017

Beschreibung

A rich widow...A disappearance....and Mr. Dark, a detective lawyer’s clerk.

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Table of Contents

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A Plot

Chapter I

Chapter II

Chapter III

Chapter IV

Chapter V

Chapter VI

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A Plotin Private Life

by

WILKIE COLLINS

(1824-1889)

Picture by Napoléon Sarony (1821-1896)

Chapter I

THE first place I got when I began going out to service was not a very profitable one. I certainly gained the advantage of learning my business thoroughly, but I never had my due in the matter of wages. My master was made a bankrupt, and his servants suffered with the rest of his creditors.

My second situation, however, amply compensated me for my want of luck in the first. I had the good fortune to enter the service of Mr. and Mrs. Norcross. My master was a very rich gentleman. He had the Darrock house and lands in Cumberland, an estate also in Yorkshire, and a very large property in Jamaica, which produced, at that time and for some years afterward, a great income. Out in the West Indies he met with a pretty young lady, a governess in an English family, and, taking a violent fancy to her, married her, though she was a good five-and-twenty years younger than himself. After the wedding they came to England, and it was at this time that I was lucky enough to be engaged by them as a servant.