Lady Audley's Secret — M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon
Topics: класика
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LADY AUDLEY'S SECRET
By Mary Elizabeth Braddon
CHAPTER I.
LUCY.
It lay down in a hollow, rich with fine old timber and luxuriant pastures; and you came upon it through an avenue of limes, bordered on either side by meadows, over the high hedges of which the cattle looked inquisitively at you as you passed, wondering, perhaps, what you wanted; for there was no thorough-fare, and unless you were going to the Court you had no business there at all.
At the end of this avenue there was an old arch and a clock tower, with a stupid, bewildering clock, which had only one handand which jumped straight from one hour to the nextand was therefore always in extremes. Through this arch you walked straight…
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