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    Miss Gwilt by Wilkie Collins - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)
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    Release dateJul 17, 2017
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    Wilkie Collins

    William Wilkie Collins (1824–1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and author of short stories. He wrote 30 novels, more than 60 short stories, 14 plays, and more than 100 essays. His best-known works are The Woman in White and The Moonstone.

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      Miss Gwilt by Wilkie Collins - Delphi Classics (Illustrated) - Wilkie Collins

      The Complete Works of

      WILKIE COLLINS

      VOLUME 37 OF 47

      Miss Gwilt

      Parts Edition

      By Delphi Classics, 2015

      Version 1

      COPYRIGHT

      ‘Miss Gwilt’

      Wilkie Collins: Parts Edition (in 47 parts)

      First published in the United Kingdom in 2017 by Delphi Classics.

      © Delphi Classics, 2017.

      All rights reserved.  No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of the publisher, nor be otherwise circulated in any form other than that in which it is published.

      ISBN: 978 1 78877 097 2

      Delphi Classics

      is an imprint of

      Delphi Publishing Ltd

      Hastings, East Sussex

      United Kingdom

      Contact: sales@delphiclassics.com

      www.delphiclassics.com

      Wilkie Collins: Parts Edition

      This eBook is Part 37 of the Delphi Classics edition of Wilkie Collins in 47 Parts. It features the unabridged text of Miss Gwilt from the bestselling edition of the author’s Complete Works. Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. Our Parts Editions feature original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of Wilkie Collins, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily.

      Visit here to buy the entire Parts Edition of Wilkie Collins or the Complete Works of Wilkie Collins in a single eBook.

      Learn more about our Parts Edition, with free downloads, via this link or browse our most popular Parts here.

      WILKIE COLLINS

      IN 47 VOLUMES

      Parts Edition Contents

      The Novels

      1, Antonina

      2, Basil

      3, Hide and Seek

      4, A Rogue’s Life

      5, The Dead Secret

      6, The Woman in White

      7, No Name

      8, Armadale

      9, The Moonstone

      10, Man and Wife

      11, Poor Miss Finch

      12, The New Magdalen

      13, The Law and the Lady

      14, The Two Destinies

      15, The Haunted Hotel

      16, The Fallen Leaves

      17, Jezebel’s Daughter

      18, The Black Robe

      19, Heart and Science

      20, I Say No

      21, The Evil Genius

      22, The Guilty River

      23, The Legacy of Cain

      24, Blind Love

      The Short Story Collections

      25, After Dark

      26, The Queen of Hearts

      27, Miss or Mrs.? and Other Stories in Outline

      28, The Frozen Deep and Other Stories

      29, Little Novels

      30, Miscellaneous Short Stories

      The Plays

      31, The Frozen Deep

      32, No Thoroughfare

      33, Black and White

      34, No Name- Play

      35, The Woman in White- Play

      36, The New Magdalen- Play

      37, Miss Gwilt

      38, The Moonstone- Play

      The Non-Fiction

      39, Memoirs of the Life of William Collins Esq, Ra

      40, Rambles Beyond Railways

      41, My Miscellanies

      42, Miscellaneous Essays and Articles

      The Biographies

      43, Wilkie Collins’ Charms by Olive Logan

      44, Men of Mark: W. Wilkie Collins by Edmund Yates

      45, Wilkie Collins by William Teignmouth Shore

      46, Extracts from ‘Memories of Half a Century’ by Rudolph Chambers Lehmann

      47, Extracts from ‘Life of Charles Dickens’ by John Forster

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      Miss Gwilt

      A DRAMA IN FIVE ACTS.

      CONTENTS

      PERSONS OF THE DRAMA.

      ACT I. — THE GOVERNESS.

      ACT III. — THE YACHT.

      ACT IV.

      ACT V.

      PERSONS OF THE DRAMA.

      ALAN ARMADALE.

      MIDWINTER.

      MAJOR MILROY.

      DOCTOR DOWNWARD.

      CAPTAIN MANUEL.

      MR. DARCH.

      ABRAHAM SAGE.

      FRANCIS.

      A TRADESMAN’S LAD.

      THE MAYOR AND CORPORATION OF THORPE-AMBROSE, SERVANTS, POLICEMEN IN PLAIN CLOTHES.

      MISS GWILT.

      MISS MILROY.

      LOUISA.

      ACT I. — THE GOVERNESS.

      SCENE. — The Park at Thorpe-Ambrose. On the actor’s right the paling and garden gate leading to MAJOR MILROY’S cottage. Entrances to the stage through the trees at the back and by a shrubbery path on the actor’s left. Garden seats placed here and there among the trees. MAJOR MILROY and MISS MILROY are discovered seated at a rustic table. MISS M. is making a nosegay. The MAJOR has a newspaper in his hand. He is absorbed over his reading, and is perpetually interrupted by questions from his daughter.

      MISS M.

      Papa! has anybody answered your advertisement for a governess for me?

      MAJOR M.

      My dear, I told you this morning that a governess had answered the advertisement.

      MISS M.

      Has she given you a good reference?

      MAJOR M.

      An excellent reference.

      MISS M.

      What is her name?

      MAJOR M.

      Miss Gwilt.

      MISS M.

      I don’t like her name, to begin with. Is she an old woman?

      MAJOR M.

      No.

      MISS M.

      Is she a young woman?

      MAJOR M.

      Yes.

      MISS M.

      Where did she live last?

      MAJOR M.

      Bless my soul! what a number of questions! Are you to manage this matter? or am I?

      MISS M.

      I had rather we neither of us managed it. The fact is, papa, I don’t want a governess at all.

      MAJOR M.

      Then you must go to school.

      MISS M.

      I don’t want to go to school either.

      MAJOR M.

      My dear! pray be reasonable, if it is only for a minute! You know that I am not a rich man. The one thing I can give you is a good education. Choose for yourself, between an education at home and an education at school.

      MISS M.

      Choose? Do you suppose that I could be happy for a moment out of my own dear little room at the cottage?

      MAJOR M.

      In other words, you choose the governess — and there is an end of the matter. As for your little room at the cottage, my dear, I only hope it may not be some other young lady’s little room before long.

      MISS M.

      What do you mean?

      MAJOR M.

      Our cottage belongs to the owner of the Thorpe-Ambrose estate, and our lease expires next month.

      MISS M.

      Well?

      MAJOR M.

      Well, the death of our old landlord, Mr. Blanchard, has transferred the Thorpe-Ambrose estates into the hands of a stranger. (MR. DARCH appears at the back.) And that stranger may not choose to renew our lease.

      MR. D. (advancing).

      Make your mind easy, Major. I answer for his renewing your lease.

      MAJOR M.

      You, Mr. Darch! Why, I thought you were entirely unacquainted with our new landlord, like all the rest of us?

      MR. D.

      I have been in correspondence with him, Major. It was my business to inform the new heir, Mr. Allan Armadale, of the inheritance to which he has succeeded. He has appointed me his lawyer, and, take my word for it, he will renew your lease.

      MISS M.

      Is our new landlord a young man, Mr. Darch?

      MR. D.

      A very young man, Miss Milroy.

      MISS M.

      Handsome and agreeable, Mr. Darch?

      MR. D.

      I must leave you to judge for yourself, Miss Milroy. I have not seen him.

      MAJOR M. (to MR. DARCH)

      One word on the subject of our late landlord. All we have heard here is that Mr. Blanchard died unexpectedly in London. Do you know how it happened?

      MR. D.

      It happened in this way. Mr. Blanchard was in London on business, and was a passenger on board on of the river steamers ——

      MAJOR M. (interrupting him).

      Drowned?

      MR. D.

      On the contrary, he was the means of saving a person who might have been drowned but for him. A woman among the passengers threw herself overboard. (MAJOR MILROY and MISS MILROY both start.) Mr. Blanchard jumped into the river and rescued her. They were both brought on shore safely to the nearest police station. The woman soon recovered her senses, thanks to the readiness of a young man who witnessed the accident and who ran for the nearest doctor.

      MISS M.

      Was the young man Mr. Armadale?

      MR. D.

      Certainly not. The young man’s name was reported to be Midwinter.

      MISS M.

      Midwinter? What an extraordinary name!

      MAJOR M. (interposing)

      My dear! we have still to hear about Mr. Blanchard’s death.

      MR. D.

      Mr. Blanchard might have been alive at this moment if he had been wise enough to get into a warm bath and send for dry clothes. The medical man who had been called in — a certain Dr. Downward — gave him that advice. Mr. Blanchard laughed at Dr. Downward — and went home in a cab. The next day he was too ill to attend the examination before the magistrates. A fortnight afterwards he was a dead man.

      MAJOR M.

      Is it known who the woman was?

      MR. D.

      Nobody knows who she was. The name she gave at the examination was evidently assumed.

      MAJOR M.

      And this attempted suicide, on the part of a perfect stranger —— ?

      MR. D.

      Has made Mr. Armadale (through his mother) possessor of the Thorpe-Ambrose estates.

      Enter DR. DOWNWARD. His grey hair is parted in the middle, and falls to his shoulders. He wears a large turn-down collar, a long, black frock-coat, and a broad-brimmed hat. His whole exterior announces an assumption of patriarchal simplicity. His manner is smoothly benevolent. He looks at everybody with the same bland smile.

      DR. D. (addressing a servant who accompanies him).

      Is that Major Milroy’s residence?

      THE SERVANT.

      There is the Major himself, Sir.

      (The servant goes out. DR. DOWNWARD advances to the MAJOR. MR. DARCH, after a glance at the DOCTOR, withdraws to the back.)

      DR. D.

      I think, sir, I have the honour of addressing the gentleman who advertised, under the initial M., for a governess in the Times?

      MAJOR M.

      I am that person, sir.

      DR. D.

      I am that other person whom you applied to when the governess had answered your advertisement. Miss Gwilt

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