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      "We cannot be certain of the next phase. But I incline to believe that there was a fairy tale, after all, in that little wood, horrible as was its occasion. Whether the young lady named Hedwig had any previous knowledge of the soldier she saved and eventually married, or whether she came accidentally upon the accident and their intimacy began that night, we shall probably never know. But we can know, I fancy, that this Hedwig was a heroine, and deserved to marry a man who became something of a hero. She did the bold and the wise thing. She persuaded the sentry to go back to his post, in which place there was nothing to connect him with the disaster; he was but one of the most loyal and orderly of fifty such sentries within call. She remained by the body and gave the alarm; and there was nothing to connect her with the disaster either, since she had not got, and could not have, any firearms.

      "Well," said Father Brown rising cheerfully "I hope they're happy."

      "Where are you going?" asked his friend.

      "I'm going to have another look at that portrait of the Chamberlain, the Arnhold who betrayed his brethren," answered the priest. "I wonder what part—I wonder if a man is less a traitor when he is twice a traitor?"

      And he ruminated long before the portrait of a white-haired man with black eyebrows and a pink, painted sort of smile that seemed to contradict the black warning in his eyes.

      Table des matières

       The Moonstone Wilkie Collins

       PROLOGUE: THE STORMING OF SERINGAPATAM (1799)

       Part 1 First Period, THE LOSS OF THE DIAMOND (1848), The events related by GABRIEL BETTEREDGE, house-steward in the service of JULIA, LADY VERINDER.

       Chapter 1

       Chapter 2

       Chapter 3

       Chapter 4

       Chapter 5

       Chapter 6

       Chapter 7

       Chapter 8

       Chapter 9

       Chapter 10

       Chapter 11

       Chapter 12

       Chapter 13

       Chapter 14

       Chapter 15

       Chapter 16

       Chapter 17

       Chapter 18

       Chapter 19

       Chapter 20

       Chapter 21

       Chapter 22

       Chapter 23

       Part 2 Second Period, THE DISCOVERY OF THE TRUTH (1848-1849), First Narrative, Contributed by MISS CLACK; niece of the late SIR JOHN VERINDER

       Chapter 1

       Chapter 2

       Chapter 3

       Chapter 4

       Chapter 5

       Chapter 6

       Chapter 7

       Chapter 8

       Part 3 Second Narrative, Contributed by MATHEW BRUFF, Solicitor, of Gray's Inn Square

       Chapter 1

       Chapter 2

       Chapter 3

       Part 4 Third Narrative, Contributed by FRANKLIN BLAKE

       Chapter 1

       Chapter 2

       Chapter 3

      

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