Wylder's Hand
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu · English
Sheridan Le Fanu's 1864 mystery novel of an inheritance and a disappearance, which opens as the narrator returns to the village of Gylingden with a…
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Sheridan Le Fanu's 1864 mystery novel of an inheritance and a disappearance, which opens as the narrator returns to the village of Gylingden with a letter from Mark Wylder. Read the full English text here.
Wylder's Hand
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu · English
Sheridan Le Fanu's 1864 mystery novel of an inheritance and a disappearance, which opens as the narrator returns to the village of Gylingden with a…
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CHAPTER I. RELATING HOW I DROVE THROUGH THE VILLAGE OF GYLINGDEN WITH MARK WYLDER'S LETTER IN MY VALISE. It was late in the autumn, and I was skimming along, through a rich English county, in a postchaise, among tall hedgerows gilded, like all the landscape, with the slanting beams of sunset. The road makes a long and easy descent into the little town of Gylingden, and down this we were going at an exhilarating pace, and the jingle of the vehicle sounded like sledge-bells in my ears,
Pagera Editor's Note
Sheridan Le Fanu's 1864 mystery novel of an inheritance and a disappearance, which opens as the narrator returns to the village of Gylingden with a letter from Mark Wylder. Read the full English text here.
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