Orakel Classics
The Woman in White
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins, prepared as a public-domain Orakel edition with 14 chapter-aware companion links.
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THE STORY BEGUN BY WALTER HARTRIGHT
THE STORY BEGUN BY WALTER HARTRIGHT from The Woman in White. This is the story of what a Woman’s patience can endure, and what a Man’s resolution can
Open2THE STORY CONTINUED BY VINCENT GILMORE
THE STORY CONTINUED BY VINCENT GILMORE from The Woman in White. I write these lines at the request of my friend, Mr. Walter Hartright. They are intended to convey a description of certain events which seriously affected Miss Fairlie’s interests, and which took place after the period of Mr. Hartright’s departure from Limmeridge
Open3THE STORY CONTINUED BY MARIAN HALCOMBE
THE STORY CONTINUED BY MARIAN HALCOMBE from The Woman in White. [1] The passages omitted, here and elsewhere, in Miss Halcombe’s Diary are only those which bear no reference to Miss Fairlie or to any of the persons with whom she is associated in these
Open4THE SECOND EPOCH
THE SECOND EPOCH from The Woman in White. This section is available as a chapter-aware Orakel companion.
Open5THE STORY CONTINUED BY MARIAN HALCOMBE.
THE STORY CONTINUED BY MARIAN HALCOMBE. from The Woman in White. June 11th, 1850.—Six months to look back on—six long, lonely months since Laura and I last saw each
Open6THE STORY CONTINUED BY FREDERICK FAIRLIE, ESQ., OF LIMMERIDGE HOUSE[2
THE STORY CONTINUED BY FREDERICK FAIRLIE, ESQ., OF LIMMERIDGE HOUSE[2 from The Woman in White. [2] The manner in which Mr. Fairlie’s Narrative, and other Narratives that are shortly to follow it, were originally obtained, forms the subject of an explanation which will appear at a later
Open7THE STORY CONTINUED BY ELIZA MICHELSON
THE STORY CONTINUED BY ELIZA MICHELSON from The Woman in White. I am asked to state plainly what I know of the progress of Miss Halcombe’s illness and of the circumstances under which Lady Glyde left Blackwater Park for
Open8THE STORY CONTINUED IN SEVERAL NARRATIVES
THE STORY CONTINUED IN SEVERAL NARRATIVES from The Woman in White. I am sorry to say that I have never learnt to read or write. I have been a hard-working woman all my life, and have kept a good character. I know that it is a sin and wickedness to say the thing which is not, and I will truly beware of doing so on this occasion. All that I know I will tell, and I humbly beg the gentleman who takes this down to put my language right as he goes on, and to make allowances for my being
Open9THE THIRD EPOCH
THE THIRD EPOCH from The Woman in White. This section is available as a chapter-aware Orakel companion.
Open10THE STORY CONTINUED BY WALTER HARTRIGHT.
THE STORY CONTINUED BY WALTER HARTRIGHT. from The Woman in White. The history of the interval which I thus pass over must remain unrecorded. My heart turns faint, my mind sinks in darkness and confusion when I think of it. This must not be, if I who write am to guide, as I ought, you who read. This must not be, if the clue that leads through the windings of the story is to remain from end to end untangled in my
Open11THE STORY CONTINUED BY MRS. CATHERICK
THE STORY CONTINUED BY MRS. CATHERICK from The Woman in White. SIR,—You have not come back, as you said you would. No matter—I know the news, and I write to tell you so. Did you see anything particular in my face when you left me? I was wondering, in my own mind, whether the day of his downfall had come at last, and whether you were the chosen instrument for working it. You were, and you HAVE worked
Open12THE STORY CONTINUED BY WALTER HARTRIGHT
THE STORY CONTINUED BY WALTER HARTRIGHT from The Woman in White. My first impulse, after reading Mrs. Catherick’s extraordinary narrative, was to destroy it. The hardened shameless depravity of the whole composition, from beginning to end—the atrocious perversity of mind which persistently associated me with a calamity for which I was in no sense answerable, and with a death which I had risked my life in trying to avert—so disgusted me, that I was on the point of tearing the
Open13THE STORY CONTINUED BY ISIDOR, OTTAVIO, BALDASSARE FOSCO
THE STORY CONTINUED BY ISIDOR, OTTAVIO, BALDASSARE FOSCO from The Woman in White. (Count of the Holy Roman Empire, Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Brazen Crown, Perpetual Arch-Master of the Rosicrucian Masons of Mesopotamia; Attached (in Honorary Capacities) to Societies Musical, Societies Medical, Societies Philosophical, and Societies General Benevolent, throughout Europe; etc. etc.
Open14THE STORY CONCLUDED BY WALTER HARTRIGHT
THE STORY CONCLUDED BY WALTER HARTRIGHT from The Woman in White. When I closed the last leaf of the Count’s manuscript the half-hour during which I had engaged to remain at Forest Road had expired. Monsieur Rubelle looked at his watch and bowed. I rose immediately, and left the agent in possession of the empty house. I never saw him again—I never heard more of him or of his wife. Out of the dark byways of villainy and deceit they had crawled across our path—into the same byways
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