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The Moonstone

The Moonstone

Collins, Wilkie

Hardcover

HorrorMystery & ThrillerRomance

ISBN10: 1731700792
ISBN13: 9781731700797
Publisher: Simon & Brown
Published: Oct 25 2018
Pages: 558
Weight: 2.17
Height: 1.38 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In the first part of ROBINSON CRUSOE, at page one hundred and twenty-nine, you will find it thus written: Now I saw, though too late, the Folly of beginning a Work before we count the Cost, and before we judge rightly of our own Strength to go through with it.Only yesterday, I opened my ROBINSON CRUSOE at that place. Only this morning (May twenty-first, Eighteen hundred and fifty), came my lady's nephew, Mr. Franklin Blake, and held a short conversation with me, as follows: -Betteredge, says Mr. Franklin, I have been to the lawyer's about some family matters; and, among other things, we have been talking of the loss of the Indian Diamond, in my aunt's house in Yorkshire, two years since. Mr. Bruff thinks as I think, that the whole story ought, in the interests of truth, to be placed on record in writing-and the sooner the better.Not perceiving his drift yet, and thinking it always desirable for the sake of peace and quietness to be on the lawyer's side, I said I thought so too. Mr. Franklin went on.In this matter of the Diamond, he said, the characters of innocent people have suffered under suspicion already-as you know. The memories of innocent people may suffer, hereafter, for want of a record of the facts to which those who come after us can appeal. There can be no doubt that this strange family story of ours ought to be told. And I think, Betteredge, Mr. Bruff and I together have hit on the right way of telling it.Very satisfactory to both of them, no doubt. But I failed to see what I myself had to do with it, so fa

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