Cut by the County; or, Grace Darnel

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon 1885
English
  • Under a cloud.
  • The secret of her unhappiness.
  • Grace's promise of marriage.
  • ''Here's a pretty kettle of fish.''
  • ''Doubt not that I have counted well the cost.''
  • ''Life-stifling fear, soul-stifling shame.''
  • ''As from a dream of murder.''
  • ''All was silent, all was gloom.''
  • ''Love will have his way.''
  • ''Yet I must prove all truth to thee.''
  • ''I love, and he loves me again.''
  • ''A power of hell o'erclouds thy understanding.''
  • ''Love, see thy lover humbled at thy feet.''
  • ''Then be we, each and all, forgiven.''
Darnel Park is situated in a county that thrives on gossip and secrets, and the Darnel family, as it turns out, has many of them. An attempt at Sir Allan Darnel’s life, after various misunderstandings and misdirections, reveals an estranged son and a mysterious fiancée, and the Darnel family scrambles to conceal these new developments from not only the county but the Scotland Yard detective called in to investigate. - Summary by Adrienne Prevost.

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