CHAPTER I.
Towards the close of the last century the Baron de
Beaurepaire lived in the chateau of that name in Brittany.
His family was of prodigious antiquity; seven successive
barons had alrea...
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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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White Lies
Charles Reade