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Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Aurora Floyd & Lady Audley's Secret
(Victorian Mysteries)
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- Advanced Digital Solutions & High-Quality eBook Formatting -
2019 OK Publishing
EAN 4057664560100
Table of Contents
Lady Audley's Secret
Chapter 2. On Board the Argus.
Chapter 4. In the First Page of “The Times.”
Chapter 5. The Headstone at Ventnor.
Chapter 6. Anywhere, Anywhere Out of the World.
Chapter 11. The Mark Upon My Lady’s Wrist.
Chapter 16. Robert Audley Gets His Conge.
Chapter 17. At the Castle Inn.
Chapter 18. Robert Receives a Visitor Whom he had Scarcely Expected.
Chapter 19. The Writing in the Book.
Chapter 21. Little Georgey Leaves His Old Home.
Chapter 22. Coming to a Standstill.
Chapter 25. Retrograde Investigation.
Chapter 26. So Far and No Farther.
Chapter 27. Beginning at the Other End.
Chapter 28. Hidden in the Grave.
Chapter 30. Preparing the Ground.
Chapter 31. Phoebe’s Petition.
Chapter 32. The Red Light in the Sky.
Chapter 33. The Bearer of the Tidings.
Chapter 34. My Lady Tells the Truth.
Chapter 35. The Hush that Succeeds the Tempest.
Chapter 36. Dr. Mosgrave’s Advice.
Chapter 1
Lucy.
It lay down in a hollow, rich with fine old timber and luxuriant pastures; and you came upon it through an avenue of limes, bordered on either side by meadows, over the high hedges of which the cattle looked inquisitively at you as you passed, wondering, perhaps, what you wanted; for there was no thorough-fare, and unless you were going to the Court you had no business there at all.
At the end of this avenue there was an old arch and a clock tower, with a stupid, bewildering clock, which had only one hand — and which jumped straight from one hour to the next — and was therefore always in extremes. Through this arch