The Black Robe Book the First Chapter 12

from The Wilkie Collins Library · host Wilkie Collins

In which a young lady ventures bravely into a squalid London street to visit a French widow and her afflicted family, offering discreet aid on behalf of a distant friend and witnessing the gentle endurance and hidden sorrows of their lives. There she learns of a tragic duel’s haunting aftermath, contemplates the burdens of charity, and sets forth to communicate her experience with careful hope and guarded feelings.

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