Cut by the County; or, Grace Darnel

Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835 - 1915)

Darnel Park is situated in a county that thrives on gossip and secrets, and the Darnel family, as it turns out, has many of them. An attempt at Sir Allan Darnel’s life, after various misunderstandings and misdirections, reveals an estranged son and a mysterious fiancée, and the Darnel family scrambles to conceal these new developments from not only the county but the Scotland Yard detective called in to investigate. - Summary by Adrienne Prevost.

Genre(s): Literary Fiction, Detective Fiction

Language: English

Section Chapter Reader Time
Play 01 Under a cloud. Adrienne Prevost
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Play 02 The secret of her unhappiness. Adrienne Prevost
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Play 03 Grace's promise of marriage. Adrienne Prevost
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Play 04 ''Here's a pretty kettle of fish.'' Adrienne Prevost
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Play 05 ''Doubt not that I have counted well the cost.'' Adrienne Prevost
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Play 06 ''Life-stifling fear, soul-stifling shame.'' Adrienne Prevost
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Play 07 ''As from a dream of murder.'' Adrienne Prevost
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Play 08 ''All was silent, all was gloom.'' Adrienne Prevost
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Play 09 ''Love will have his way.'' Adrienne Prevost
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Play 10 ''Yet I must prove all truth to thee.'' Adrienne Prevost
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Play 11 ''I love, and he loves me again.'' Adrienne Prevost
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Play 12 ''A power of hell o'erclouds thy understanding.'' Adrienne Prevost
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Play 13 ''Love, see thy lover humbled at thy feet.'' Adrienne Prevost
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Play 14 ''Then be we, each and all, forgiven.'' Adrienne Prevost
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