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Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-Haugh
Young heiress Maud Ruthyn finds herself orphaned and placed under the guardianship of her mysterious uncle Silas, whose reputation was darkened by a suspicious death at his isolated mansion, Bartram-Haugh.
"Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-Haugh" by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu is a Victorian Gothic mystery-thriller novel. Young heiress Maud Ruthyn finds herself orphaned and placed under the guardianship of her mysterious uncle Silas, whose reputation was darkened by a suspicious death at his isolated mansion, Bartram-Haugh.
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It was winter—that is, about the second week in November—and great gusts were rattling at the windows, and wailing and thundering among our tall trees and ivied chimneys—a very dark night, and a very cheerful fire blazing, a pleasant mixture of good round coal and spluttering dry wood, in a genuine old fireplace, in a sombre old room. Black wainscoting glimmered up to the ceiling, in small ebony panels; a cheerful clump of wax candles on the tea-table; many old portraits, some grim and pale, others pretty, and some very graceful and charming, hanging from the walls. Few pictures, except portraits long and short, were there. On the whole, I think you would have taken the room for our parlour. It was not like our modern notion of a drawing-room. It was a long room too, and every way capacious, but irregularly shaped.
A girl, of a little more than seventeen, looking, I believe, younger still; slight and rather tall, with a great deal of golden hair, dark grey-eyed, and with a countenance rather sensitive and melancholy, was sitting at the tea-table, in a reverie. I was that girl.
Contents
- 01Chapter I
- 02Austin Ruthyn, of Knowl, and His Daughter
- 03Chapter II
- 04Uncle Silas
- 05Chapter III
- 06A New Face
- 07Chapter IV
- 08Madame De La Rougierre
- 09Chapter V
- 10Sights and Noises
- 11Chapter VI
- 12A Walk in the Wood
- 13Chapter VII
- 14Church Scarsdale
- 15Chapter VIII
- 16The Smoker
- 17Chapter IX
- 18Monica Knollys
- 19Chapter X
- 20Lady Knollys Removes a Coverlet
- 21Chapter XI
- 22Lady Knollys Sees the Features
- 23Chapter XII
- 24A Curious Conversation
- 25Chapter XIII
- 26Before and After Breakfast
- 27Chapter XIV
- 28Angry Words
- 29Chapter XV
- 30A Warning
- 31Chapter XVI
- 32Doctor Bryerly Looks in
- 33Chapter XVII
- 34An Adventure
- 35Chapter XVIII
- 36A Midnight Visitor
- 37Chapter XIX
- 38Au Revoir
- 39Chapter XX
- 40Austin Ruthyn Sets Out on His Journey
- 41Chapter XXI
- 42Arrivals
- 43Chapter XXII
- 44Somebody in the Room with the Coffin
- 45Chapter XXIII
- 46I Talk with Doctor Bryerly
- 47Chapter XXIV
- 48The Opening of the Will
- 49Chapter XXV
- 50I Hear from Uncle Silas
- 51Chapter XXVI
- 52The Story of Uncle Silas
- 53Chapter XXVII
- 54More About Tom Charke's Suicide
- 55Chapter XXVIII
- 56I Am Persuaded
- 57Chapter XXIX
- 58How the Ambassador Fared
- 59Chapter XXX
- 60On the Road
About this edition
- Author
- Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
- Language
- English
- Era
- Modern (c. 1800–1945)
- Reading level
- Intermediate: some philosophy helps
- Formats
- EPUB, PDF
- Length
- 623 pages
- This edition
- Modern Philosophers
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