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The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins.

First Epic.

The story begun by Walter Hartwright of Clemens Inn, Teacher of Drawing.

This is the story of what a woman's patience can endure and what a man's resolution

can achieve.

If the machinery of the law could be depended on to fathom every case of suspicion and

to conduct every process of inquiry with moderate assistance only from the lubricating influences

of oil of gold, the events which fill these pages might have claimed their share of the

public attention in accord of justice.

But the law is still in certain inevitable cases, the pre-engaged servant of the long

purse, and the story is left to be told for the first time in this place.

As the judge might once have heard it, so the reader shall hear it now.

No circumstance of importance from the beginning to the end of the disclosure shall be related

on hearsay evidence.

When the writer of these introductory lines, Walter Hartwright by name, happens to be more

closely connected than others with the incidents to be recorded, he will describe them in his

own person.

When his experience fails, he will retire from the position of narrator, and his task

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