IMAGE ACCOMPANYING "THE LAW AND THE LADY: A Novel" BY WILKIE COLLINS, CHAPTER XXIV, MISERRIMUS DEXTER, FIRST VIEW; "The instant she pronounced those last words, "Eustace Macallan's second wife," the man in the chair sprang out of it with a shrill cry of horror, as if she had shot him. For one moment we saw a head and body in the air, absolutely deprived of the lower limbs. The moment after, the terrible creature touched the floor as lightly as a monkey on his hands."
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IMAGE ACCOMPANYING "THE LAW AND THE LADY: A Novel" BY WILKIE COLLINS, CHAPTER XXIV, MISERRIMUS DEXTER, FIRST VIEW; "The instant she pronounced those last words, "Eustace Macallan's second wife," the man in the chair sprang out of it with a shrill cry of horror, as if she had shot him. For one moment we saw a head and body in the air, absolutely deprived of the lower limbs. The moment after, the terrible creature touched the floor as lightly as a monkey on his hands."

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1874

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