#400 pages later: dead by her own hand or drowned under mysterious circumstances

[rosepompadour]

She was dreadfully romantic. She read too many novels and carried her ideal world wherever she went.

- Mary Elizabeth Braddon, The Doctor’s Wife (1864)

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