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The Dead Secret
The Dead Secret by Wilkie Collins, available in Auren as a public-domain ebook in the United States.
139,139words
6chapters
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OPENING · FIRST PAGE
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“Will she last out the night, I wonder?”
“Look at the clock, Mathew.”
“Ten minutes past twelve! She has lasted the night out. She has lived, Robert, to see ten minutes of the new day.”
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