Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Works of Wilkie Collins, Vol. 8
While the band played, while the children danced, while the buzz of many talkers deep ened, while the strong young nurses of. The coming cripples knitted impenetrably, a wo man's insatiable curiosity about other women asserted itself in the mayor's wife. 'she drew the landlady aside, and whispered a question to her on the spot.
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