CHAPTER I.
THE POOR MAN’S CHILD
Chapter II.
The rich man’s child
Chapter III.
The two fathers
Chapter IV.
An old servant
Chapter V.
Mary’s peril
Chapter VI.
S...
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By the time Charles Reade had reached the age of forty, he had written only two of his fourteen novels, Peg Woffington (1853) and Christie Johnstone (1853); but he had already written at least fifteen...
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A Perilous Secret
Charles Reade
