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The Hand of Ethelberta

Thomas Hardy

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1876
Pages
Pages 450

At a Mayfair dinner the butler goes quietly round with the dishes, and the celebrated young writer among the guests is his daughter. Nobody at the table knows it, and she has arranged it that way.

Young Mrs. Petherwin stepped from the door of an old and well-appointed inn in a Wessex town to take a country walk.
The Hand of Ethelberta, Thomas Hardy

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