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POSTSCRIPT MR. DAVID GLENNEY RETURNS TO FRANKFORT, AND CLOSES THE STORY I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX JEZEBEL'S DAUGHTER by Wilkie Collins TO ALBERTO CACCIA Let me begin by informing you,…
In the matter of Jezebel's Daughter, my recollections begin with the deaths of two foreign gentlemen, in two different countries, on the same day of the same year. They were both men of some im…
At the end of the week we found the widow waiting to receive us. To describe her personally, she was a little lady, with a remarkably pretty figure, a clear pale complexion, a broad low forehead, an…
"My husband was connected with many charitable institutions," the widow began. "Am I right in believing that he was one of the governors of Bethlehem Hospital?" At this reference…
On the appointed Monday we were ready to accompany my aunt to the madhouse. Whether she distrusted her own unaided judgment, or whether she wished to have as many witnesses as possible to the rash a…
The superintendent opened the cell door with his own hand. We found ourselves in a narrow, lofty prison, like an apartment in a tower. High up, in one corner, the grim stone walls were pierced by a …
On our return to home, I found Fritz Keller smoking his pipe in the walled garden at the back of the house. In those days, it may not be amiss to remark that merchants of the old-fashioned sort stil…
Fritz kept the letter from Wurzburg unopened in his hand. "It's not from Minna," he said; "the handwriting is strange to me. Perhaps my father knows something about it." He …
"I will lay any wager you like," said Fritz, when we had come to the end of the letter, "that the wretch who has written this is a woman." "What makes you think so?" &…
I had just given a porter the necessary directions for taking my portmanteau to Mr. Keller's house, when I heard a woman's voice behind me asking the way to the Poste Restante—or, in our ro…
