The Moonstone — Wilkie Collins
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Beginning
THE MOONSTONE
A Romance
by Wilkie Collins
PROLOGUE
THE STORMING OF SERINGAPATAM (1799):
(Extracted from a Family Paper.)
I
I address these lines—written in India—to my relatives in England.
My object is to explain the motive which has induced me to refuse the right hand of friendship to my cousin, John Herncastle. The reserve which I have hitherto maintained in this matter has been misinterpreted by members of my family whose good opinion I cannot consent to forfeit. I request them to suspend their decision until they have read my narrative. And I declare, on my word of honour, that what I am now about to write is, strictly and literally, the truth.
The private difference between my cousin and me…
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