[The New Magdalen by Wilkie Collins]@TWC D-Link bookThe New Magdalen CHAPTER X 1/10
CHAPTER X.A COUNCIL OF THREE. FOR a moment Horace stood thunderstruck, looking in blank astonishment at Lady Janet.
His first words, as soon as he had recovered himself, were addressed to Julian.
"Is this a joke ?" he asked, sternly.
"If it is, I for one don't see the humor of it." Julian pointed to the closely written pages of the consul's letter.
"A man writes in earnest," he said, "when he writes at such length as this. The woman seriously gave the name of Grace Roseberry, and when she left Mannheim she traveled to England for the express purpose of presenting herself to Lady Janet Roy." He turned to his aunt.
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