William Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. His best-known works are The Woman in White (1859), No Name (1862), Armadale (1866) and The Moonstone (1868). Collins’s works were classified at the time as «sensation novels», a genre seen nowadays as the precursor to detective and suspense fiction.
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Уильям Уилки Коллинз. John Jago’s Ghost
Chapter I. The Sick Man
Chapter II. The New Faces
Chapter III. The Moonlight Meeting
Chapter IV. The Beechen Stick
Chapter V. The News from Narrabee
Chapter VI. The Lime-Kiln
Chapter VII. The Materials in the Defense
Chapter VIII. The Confession
Chapter IX. The Advertisement
Chapter X. The Sheriff and the Governor
Chapter XI. The Pebble and the Window
Chapter XII. The End of It
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Immediatly on my arrival, I was presented to Mr. Meadowcroft, the father.
The old man had become a confirmed invalid, confined by chronic rheumatism to his chair. He received me kindly, and a little wearily as well. His only unmarried daughter (he had long since been left a widower) was in the room, in attendance on her father. She was a melancholy, middle-aged woman, without visible attractions of any sort – one of those persons who appear to accept the obligation of living under protest, as a burden which they would never have consented to bear if they had only been consulted first. We three had a dreary little interview in a parlor of bare walls; and then I was permitted to go upstairs, and unpack my portmanteau in my own room.
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So, picking his words with painful deliberation, and pointing his reference to “the young gentlemen” with one sardonic side-look at them, Mr. John Jago performed the duties of hospitality on his side. I excused myself from accepting the cigar. With studied politeness, the man of the glittering brown eyes wished me a good night’s rest, and left the room.
Ambrose and Silas both approached me hospitably, with their open cigar-cases in their hands.
