The Moonstone - Wilkie Collins (ebook reader screen TXT) 📗

writers may express, whatever peculiarities of treatment may mark, and perhaps in a literary sense, disfigure the narratives which I am now collecting, not a line will be tampered with anywhere, from first to last. As genuine documents they are sent to me⁠—and as genuine documents I shall preserve them, endorsed by the attestations of witnesses who can speak to the facts. It only remains to be added that “the person chiefly concerned” in Miss Clack’s narrative, is happy enough at the present moment, not only to brave the smartest exercise of Miss Clack’s pen, but even to recognise its unquestionable value as an instrument for the exhibition of Miss Clack’s character. ↩

See Betteredge’s Narrative, Chapter VIII ↩

Note: by Franklin Blake.⁠—The writer is entirely mistaken, poor creature. I never noticed her. My intention was certainly to have taken a turn in the shrubbery. But, remembering at the same moment that my aunt might wish to see me, after my return from the railway, I altered my mind, and went into the house. ↩

Note.⁠—Wherever the Report touches on the events of the birthday, or of the three days that followed it, compare with Betteredge’s Narrative, Chapters VIII to XIII ↩

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The Moonstone
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