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Title: Milly Darrell and Other Tales

Author: M. E. Braddon

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*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MILLY DARRELL AND OTHER TALES ***

Produced by Daniel Fromont

Mary Elizabeth Braddon (4 October 1835 - 4 February1915), Milly Darrel
(serialised in Belgravia November 1870 - January 1871), here taken
from Milly Darrel and other stories Asher's Collection Emile Galette
Paris 1873

Produced by Daniel FROMONT

ASHER'S COLLECTION

OF

ENGLISH AUTHORS.

BRITISH AND AMERICAN.

_COPYRIGHT EDITION_.

VOL. 72.

MILLY DARRELL AND OTHER STORIES

BY M. E. BRADDON.

IN ONE VOLUME.

PARIS

EMILE GALETTE, 12, RUE BONAPARTE.

1873.

_This Edition

is Copyright for Foreign Circulation only_.

ASHER'S COLLECTION

OF

ENGLISH AUTHORS

BRITISH AND AMERICAN.

_COPYRIGHT EDITION_.

VOL. 72.

MILLY DARRELL AND OTHER TALES

BY M.E. BRADDON.

IN ONE VOLUME.

ASHER'S EDITION

BY THE SAME AUTHOR:

ROBERT AINSLEIGH -- 3 VOL.

TO THE BITTER END -- 3 VOL.

MILLY DARRELL

AND OTHER TALES.

BY

M. E. BRADDON

AUTHOR OF "LADY AUDLEY'S SECRET," "ROBERT AINSLEIGH," ETC.

_COPYRIGHT EDITION_.

BERLIN

A. ASHER & CO., PUBLISHERS,

1873.

TO

DR. AND MRS. BEAMAN,

THE AUTHOR'S OLD AND VALUED FRIENDS,

THIS BOOK

IS AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED.

CONTENTS.

MILLY DARRELL -- PAGE 1

OLD RUDDERFORD HALL -- PAGE 179

THE SPLENDID STRANGER -- PAGE 235

MILLY DARRELL

CHAPTER I.

I BEGIN LIFE.

I was just nineteen years of age when I began my career as articled
pupil with the Miss Bagshots of Albury Lodge, Fendale, Yorkshire. My
father was a country curate, with a delicate wife and four children,
of whom I was the eldest; and I had known from my childhood that the
day must come in which I should have to get my own living in almost
the only vocation open to a poor gentleman's daughter. I had been
fairly educated near home, and the first opportunity that arose for
placing me out in t