The Woman in White - 31

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My suspicion of everybody and everything in this house inclines me to think that the second plan may be the best. The Count is safe in the breakfast-room. I heard him, through the door, as I ran upstairs ten minutes since, exercising his canary-birds at their tricks:—"Come out on my little finger, my pret-pret-pretties! Come out, and hop upstairs! One, two, three—and up! Three, two, one—and down! One, two, three—twit-twit-twit-tweet!" The birds burst into their usual ecstasy of singing, and the Count chirruped and whistled at them in return, as if he was a bird himself. My room door is open, and I can hear the shrill singing and whistling at this very moment. If I am really to slip out without being observed, now is my time.

 

Four o'clock. The three hours that have passed since I made my last entry have turned the whole march of events at Blackwater Park in a new direction. Whether for good or for evil, I cannot and dare not decide.

Let me get back first to the place at which I left off, or I shall lose myself in the confusion of my own thoughts.

I went out, as I had proposed, to meet the messenger with my letter from London at the lodge gate. On the stairs I saw no one. In the hall I heard the Count still exercising his birds. But on crossing the quadrangle outside, I passed Madame Fosco, walking by herself in her favourite circle, round and round the great fish-pond. I at once slackened my pace, so as to avoid all appearance of being in a hurry, and even went the length, for caution's sake, of inquiring if she thought of going out before lunch. She smiled at me in the friendliest manner—said she preferred remaining near the house, nodded pleasantly, and re-entered the hall. I looked back, and saw that she had closed the door before I had opened the wicket by the side of the carriage gates.

In less than a quarter of an hour I reached the lodge.

The lane outside took a sudden turn to the left, ran on straight for a hundred yards or so, and then took another sharp turn to the right to join the high-road. Between these two turns, hidden from the lodge on one side, and from the way to the station on the other, I waited, walking backwards and forwards. High hedges were on either side of me, and for twenty minutes, by my watch, I neither saw nor heard anything. At the end of that time the sound of a carriage caught my ear, and I was met, as I advanced towards the second turning, by a fly from the railway. I made a sign to the driver to stop. As he obeyed me a respectable-looking man put his head out of the window to see what was the matter.

"I beg your pardon," I said, "but am I right in supposing that you are going to Blackwater Park?"

"Yes, ma'am."

"With a letter for any one?"

"With a letter for Miss Halcombe, ma'am."

"You may give me the letter. I am Miss Halcombe."

The man touched his hat, got out of the fly immediately, and gave me the letter.

I opened it at once and read these lines. I copy them here, thinking it best to destroy the original for caution's sake.



"DEAR MADAM,—Your letter received this morning has caused me very great anxiety. I will reply to it as briefly and plainly as possible.

"My careful consideration of the statement made by yourself, and my knowledge of Lady Glyde's position, as defined in the settlement, lead me, I regret to say, to the conclusion that a loan of the trust money to Sir Percival (or, in other words, a loan of some portion of the twenty thousand pounds of Lady Glyde's fortune) is in contemplation, and that she       is made a party to the deed, in order to secure her approval of a flagrant breach of trust, and to have her signature produced against her if she should complain hereafter. It is impossible, on any other supposition, to account, situated as she is, for her execution to a deed of any kind being wanted at all.

"In the event of Lady Glyde's signing such a document, as I am compelled to suppose the deed in question to be, her trustees would be at liberty to advance money to Sir Percival out of her twenty thousand pounds. If the amount so lent should not be paid back, and if Lady Glyde should have children, their fortune will then be diminished by the sum, large or small, so advanced. In plainer terms still, the transaction, for anything that Lady Glyde knows to the contrary, may be a fraud upon her unborn children.

"Under these serious circumstances, I would recommend Lady Glyde to assign as a reason for withholding her signature, that she wishes the deed to be first submitted to myself, as her family solicitor (in the absence of my partner, Mr. Gilmore). No reasonable objection can be made to taking this course—for, if the transaction is an honourable one, there will necessarily be no difficulty in my giving my approval.

"Sincerely assuring you of my readiness to afford any additional help or advice that may be wanted, I beg to remain, Madam, your faithful servant,

"WILLIAM KYRLE."

 

I read this kind and sensible letter very thankfully. It supplied Laura with a reason for objecting to the signature which was unanswerable, and which we could both of us understand. The messenger waited near me while I was reading to receive his directions when I had done.

"Will you be good enough to say that I understand the letter, and that I am very much obliged?" I said. "There is no other reply necessary at present."

Exactly at the moment when I was speaking those words, holding the letter open in my hand, Count Fosco turned the corner of the lane from the high-road, and stood before me as if he had sprung up out of the earth.

The suddenness of his appearance, in the very last place under heaven in which I should have expected to see him, took me completely by surprise. The messenger wished me good-morning, and got into the fly again. I could not say a word to him—I was not even able to return his bow. The conviction that I was discovered—and by that man, of all others—absolutely petrified me.

"Are you going back to the house, Miss Halcombe?" he inquired, without showing the least surprise on his side, and without even looking after the fly, which drove off while he was speaking to me.

I collected myself sufficiently to make a sign in the affirmative.

"I am going back too," he said. "Pray allow me the pleasure of accompanying you. Will you take my arm? You look surprised at seeing me!"

I took his arm. The first of my scattered senses that came back was the sense that warned me to sacrifice anything rather than make an enemy of him.

"You look surprised at seeing me!" he repeated in his quietly pertinacious way.

"I thought, Count, I heard you with your birds in the breakfast-room," I answered, as quietly and firmly as I could.

"Surely. But my little feathered children, dear lady, are only too like other children. They have their days of perversity, and this morning was one of them. My wife came in as I was putting them back in their cage, and said she had left you going out alone for a walk. You told her so, did you not?"

"Certainly."

"Well, Miss Halcombe, the pleasure of accompanying you was too great a temptation for me to resist. At my age there is no harm in confessing so much as that, is there? I seized my hat, and set off to offer myself as your escort. Even so fat an old man as Fosco is surely better than no escort at all? I took the wrong path—I came back in despair, and here I am, arrived (may I say it?) at the height of my wishes."

He talked on in this complimentary strain with a fluency which left me no exertion to make beyond the effort of maintaining my composure. He never referred in the most distant manner to what he had seen in the lane, or to the letter which I still had in my hand. This ominous discretion helped to convince me that he must have surprised, by the most dishonourable means, the secret of my application in Laura's interest to the lawyer; and that, having now assured himself of the private manner in which I had received the answer, he had discovered enough to suit his purposes, and was only bent on trying to quiet the suspicions which he knew he must have aroused in my mind. I was wise enough, under these circumstances, not to attempt to deceive him by plausible explanations, and woman enough, notwithstanding my dread of him, to feel as if my hand was tainted by resting on his arm.

On the drive in front of the house we met the dog-cart being taken round to the stables. Sir Percival had just returned. He came out to meet us at the house-door. Whatever other results his journey might have had, it had not ended in softening his savage temper.

"Oh! here are two of you come back," he said, with a lowering face. "What is the meaning of the house being deserted in this way? Where is Lady Glyde?"

I told him of the loss of the brooch, and said that Laura had gone into the plantation to look for it.

"Brooch or no brooch," he growled sulkily, "I recommend her not to forget her appointment in the library this afternoon. I shall expect to see her in half an hour."

I took my hand from the Count's arm, and slowly ascended the steps. He honoured me with one of his magnificent bows, and then addressed himself gaily to the scowling master of the house.

"Tell me, Percival," he said, "have you had a pleasant drive? And has your pretty shining Brown Molly come back at all tired?"

"Brown Molly be hanged—and the drive too! I want my lunch."

"And I want five minutes' talk with you, Percival, first," returned the Count. "Five minutes' talk, my friend, here on the grass."

"What about?"

"About business that very much concerns you."

I lingered long enough in passing through the hall-door to hear this question and answer, and to see Sir Percival thrust his hands into his pockets in sullen hesitation.

"If you want to badger me with any more of your infernal scruples," he said, "I for one won't hear them. I want my lunch."

"Come out here and speak to me," repeated the Count, still perfectly uninfluenced by the rudest speech that his friend could make to him.

Sir Percival descended the steps. The Count took him by the arm, and walked him away gently. The "business," I was sure, referred to the question of the signature. They were speaking of Laura and of me beyond a doubt. I felt heart-sick and faint with anxiety. It might be of the last importance to both of us to know what they were saying to each other at that moment, and not one word of it could by any possibility reach my ears.

I walked about the house, from room to room, with the lawyer's letter in my bosom (I was afraid by this time even to trust it under lock and key), till the oppression of my suspense half maddened me. There were no signs of Laura's return, and I thought of going out to look for her. But my strength was so exhausted by the trials and anxieties of the morning that the heat of the day quite overpowered me, and after an attempt to get to the door I was obliged to return to the drawing-room and lie down on the nearest sofa to recover.

I was just composing myself when the door opened softly and the Count looked in.

"A thousand pardons, Miss Halcombe," he said; "I only venture to disturb you because I am the bearer of good news. Percival—who is capricious in everything, as you know—has seen fit to alter his mind at the last moment, and the business of the signature is put off for the present. A great relief to all of us, Miss Halcombe, as I see with pleasure in your face. Pray present my best respects and felicitations, when you mention this pleasant change of circumstances to Lady Glyde."

He left me before I had recovered my astonishment. There could be no doubt that this extraordinary alteration of purpose in the matter of the signature was due to his influence, and that his discovery of my application to London yesterday, and of my having received an answer to it to-day, had offered him the means of interfering with certain success.

I felt these impressions, but my mind seemed to share the exhaustion of my body, and I was in no condition to dwell on them with any useful reference to the doubtful present or the threatening future. I tried a second time to run out and find Laura, but my head was giddy and my knees trembled under me. There was no choice but to give it up again and return to the sofa, sorely against my will.

The quiet in the house, and the low murmuring hum of summer insects outside the open window, soothed me. My eyes closed of themselves, and I passed gradually into a strange condition, which was not waking—for I knew nothing of what was going on about me, and not sleeping—for I was conscious of my own repose. In this state my fevered mind broke loose from me, while my weary body was at rest, and in a trance, or day-dream of my fancy—I know not what to call it—I saw Walter Hartright. I had not thought of him since I rose that morning—Laura had not said one word to me either directly or indirectly referring to him—and yet I saw him now as plainly as if the past time had returned, and we were both together again at Limmeridge House.

He appeared to me as one among many other men, none of whose faces I could plainly discern. They were all lying on the steps of an immense ruined temple. Colossal tropical trees—with rank creepers twining endlessly about their trunks, and hideous stone idols glimmering and grinning at intervals behind leaves and stalks and branches—surrounded the temple and shut out the sky, and threw a dismal shadow over the forlorn band of men on the steps. White exhalations twisted and curled up stealthily from the ground, approached the men in wreaths like smoke, touched them, and stretched them out dead, one by one, in the places where they lay. An agony of pity and fear for Walter loosened my tongue, and I implored him to escape. "Come back, come back!" I said. "Remember your promise to her and to me. Come back to us before the Pestilence reaches you and lays you dead like the rest!"

He looked at me with an unearthly quiet in his face. "Wait," he said, "I shall come back. The night when I met the lost Woman on the highway was the night which set my life apart to be the instrument of a Design that is yet unseen. Here, lost in the wilderness, or there, welcomed back in the land of my birth, I am still walking on the dark road which leads me, and you, and the sister of your love and mine, to the unknown Retribution and the inevitable End. Wait and look. The Pestilence which touches the rest will pass me."

I saw him again. He was still in the forest, and the numbers of his lost companions had dwindled to very few. The temple was gone, and the idols were gone—and in their place the figures of dark, dwarfish men lurked murderously among the trees, with bows in their hands, and arrows fitted to the string. Once more I feared for Walter, and cried out to warn him. Once more he turned to me, with the immovable quiet in his face.

"Another step," he said, "on the dark road. Wait and look. The arrows that strike the rest will spare me."

I saw him for the third time in a wrecked ship, stranded on a wild, sandy shore. The overloaded boats were making away from him for the land, and he alone was left to sink with the ship. I cried to him to hail the hindmost boat, and to make a last effort for his life. The quiet face looked at me in return, and the unmoved voice gave me back the changeless reply. "Another step on the journey. Wait and look. The Sea which drowns the rest will spare me."

I saw him for the last time. He was kneeling by a tomb of white marble, and the shadow of a veiled woman rose out of the grave beneath and waited by his side. The unearthly quiet of his face had changed to an unearthly sorrow. But the terrible certainty of his words remained the same. "Darker and darker," he said; "farther and farther yet. Death takes the good, the beautiful, and the young—and spares me. The Pestilence that wastes, the Arrow that strikes, the Sea that drowns, the Grave that closes over Love and Hope, are steps of my journey, and take me nearer and nearer to the End."

My heart sank under a dread beyond words, under a grief beyond tears. The darkness closed round the pilgrim at the marble tomb—closed round the veiled woman from the grave—closed round the dreamer who looked on them. I saw and heard no more.

I was aroused by a hand laid on my shoulder. It was Laura's.

She had dropped on her knees by the side of the sofa. Her face was flushed and agitated, and her eyes met mine in a wild bewildered manner. I started the instant I saw her.

"What has happened?" I asked. "What has frightened you?"

She looked round at the half-open door, put her lips close to my ear, and answered in a whisper—

"Marian!—the figure at the lake—the footsteps last night—I've just seen her! I've just spoken to her!"

"Who, for Heaven's sake?"

"Anne Catherick."

I was so startled by the disturbance in Laura's face and manner, and so dismayed by the first waking impressions of my dream, that I was not fit to bear the revelation which burst upon me when that name passed her lips. I could only stand rooted to the floor, looking at her in breathless silence.

She was too much absorbed by what had happened to notice the effect which her reply had produced on me. "I have seen Anne Catherick! I have spoken to Anne Catherick!" she repeated as if I had not heard her. "Oh, Marian, I have such things to tell you! Come away—we may be interrupted here—come at once into my room."

With those eager words she caught me by the hand, and led me through the library, to the end room on the ground floor, which had been fitted up for her own especial use. No third person, except her maid, could have any excuse for surprising us here. She pushed me in before her, locked the door, and drew the chintz curtains that hung over the inside.

The strange, stunned feeling which had taken possession of me still remained. But a growing conviction that the complications which had long threatened to gather about her, and to gather about me, had suddenly closed fast round us both, was now beginning to penetrate my mind. I could not express it in words—I could hardly even realise it dimly in my own thoughts. "Anne Catherick!" I whispered to myself, with useless, helpless reiteration—"Anne Catherick!"

Laura drew me to the nearest seat, an ottoman in the middle of the room. "Look!" she said, "look here!"—and pointed to the bosom of her dress.

I saw, for the first time, that the lost brooch was pinned in its place again. There was something real in the sight of it, something real in the touching of it afterwards, which seemed to steady the whirl and confusion in my thoughts, and to help me to compose myself.

"Where did you find your brooch?" The first words I could say to her were the words which put that trivial question at that important moment.

"She found it, Marian."

"Where?"

"On the floor of the boat-house. Oh, how shall I begin—how shall I tell you about it! She talked to me so strangely—she looked so fearfully ill—she left me so suddenly!"

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  • The Woman in White - 39
    Total number of words is 3271
    Total number of unique words is 927
    60.3 of words are in the 2000 most common words
    78.6 of words are in the 5000 most common words
    86.6 of words are in the 8000 most common words
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  • The Woman in White - 40
    Total number of words is 3421
    Total number of unique words is 992
    61.4 of words are in the 2000 most common words
    79.9 of words are in the 5000 most common words
    88.4 of words are in the 8000 most common words
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  • The Woman in White - 41
    Total number of words is 3415
    Total number of unique words is 1031
    58.7 of words are in the 2000 most common words
    78.5 of words are in the 5000 most common words
    86.4 of words are in the 8000 most common words
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  • The Woman in White - 42
    Total number of words is 3408
    Total number of unique words is 890
    66.3 of words are in the 2000 most common words
    85.5 of words are in the 5000 most common words
    91.5 of words are in the 8000 most common words
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  • The Woman in White - 43
    Total number of words is 3436
    Total number of unique words is 917
    61.1 of words are in the 2000 most common words
    81.6 of words are in the 5000 most common words
    88.2 of words are in the 8000 most common words
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  • The Woman in White - 44
    Total number of words is 3532
    Total number of unique words is 887
    69.0 of words are in the 2000 most common words
    85.2 of words are in the 5000 most common words
    91.2 of words are in the 8000 most common words
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  • The Woman in White - 45
    Total number of words is 3582
    Total number of unique words is 951
    62.8 of words are in the 2000 most common words
    81.1 of words are in the 5000 most common words
    88.2 of words are in the 8000 most common words
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  • The Woman in White - 46
    Total number of words is 3612
    Total number of unique words is 926
    68.2 of words are in the 2000 most common words
    84.4 of words are in the 5000 most common words
    88.7 of words are in the 8000 most common words
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  • The Woman in White - 47
    Total number of words is 3410
    Total number of unique words is 1024
    60.0 of words are in the 2000 most common words
    78.4 of words are in the 5000 most common words
    85.5 of words are in the 8000 most common words
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  • The Woman in White - 48
    Total number of words is 3365
    Total number of unique words is 962
    61.0 of words are in the 2000 most common words
    79.6 of words are in the 5000 most common words
    87.6 of words are in the 8000 most common words
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  • The Woman in White - 49
    Total number of words is 3404
    Total number of unique words is 999
    60.5 of words are in the 2000 most common words
    79.6 of words are in the 5000 most common words
    87.0 of words are in the 8000 most common words
    Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.
  • The Woman in White - 50
    Total number of words is 3494
    Total number of unique words is 978
    60.7 of words are in the 2000 most common words
    81.6 of words are in the 5000 most common words
    88.7 of words are in the 8000 most common words
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  • The Woman in White - 51
    Total number of words is 3477
    Total number of unique words is 942
    64.2 of words are in the 2000 most common words
    81.5 of words are in the 5000 most common words
    89.4 of words are in the 8000 most common words
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  • The Woman in White - 52
    Total number of words is 3477
    Total number of unique words is 967
    61.5 of words are in the 2000 most common words
    80.9 of words are in the 5000 most common words
    86.9 of words are in the 8000 most common words
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  • The Woman in White - 53
    Total number of words is 3639
    Total number of unique words is 890
    70.7 of words are in the 2000 most common words
    86.3 of words are in the 5000 most common words
    91.1 of words are in the 8000 most common words
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  • The Woman in White - 54
    Total number of words is 3501
    Total number of unique words is 871
    67.6 of words are in the 2000 most common words
    84.9 of words are in the 5000 most common words
    90.1 of words are in the 8000 most common words
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  • The Woman in White - 55
    Total number of words is 3370
    Total number of unique words is 984
    61.3 of words are in the 2000 most common words
    79.3 of words are in the 5000 most common words
    85.8 of words are in the 8000 most common words
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  • The Woman in White - 56
    Total number of words is 3510
    Total number of unique words is 985
    63.2 of words are in the 2000 most common words
    81.1 of words are in the 5000 most common words
    87.6 of words are in the 8000 most common words
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  • The Woman in White - 57
    Total number of words is 3447
    Total number of unique words is 955
    60.7 of words are in the 2000 most common words
    77.7 of words are in the 5000 most common words
    83.8 of words are in the 8000 most common words
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  • The Woman in White - 58
    Total number of words is 3569
    Total number of unique words is 1010
    60.2 of words are in the 2000 most common words
    78.4 of words are in the 5000 most common words
    85.5 of words are in the 8000 most common words
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  • The Woman in White - 59
    Total number of words is 3408
    Total number of unique words is 892
    59.6 of words are in the 2000 most common words
    76.9 of words are in the 5000 most common words
    84.3 of words are in the 8000 most common words
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  • The Woman in White - 60
    Total number of words is 3518
    Total number of unique words is 988
    60.7 of words are in the 2000 most common words
    79.1 of words are in the 5000 most common words
    85.7 of words are in the 8000 most common words
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  • The Woman in White - 61
    Total number of words is 3658
    Total number of unique words is 923
    66.2 of words are in the 2000 most common words
    82.4 of words are in the 5000 most common words
    88.7 of words are in the 8000 most common words
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  • The Woman in White - 62
    Total number of words is 3130
    Total number of unique words is 994
    61.3 of words are in the 2000 most common words
    79.8 of words are in the 5000 most common words
    87.7 of words are in the 8000 most common words
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  • The Woman in White - 63
    Total number of words is 3594
    Total number of unique words is 1018
    61.3 of words are in the 2000 most common words
    80.6 of words are in the 5000 most common words
    87.3 of words are in the 8000 most common words
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  • The Woman in White - 64
    Total number of words is 3499
    Total number of unique words is 1045
    59.9 of words are in the 2000 most common words
    79.0 of words are in the 5000 most common words
    85.8 of words are in the 8000 most common words
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  • The Woman in White - 65
    Total number of words is 3497
    Total number of unique words is 1074
    56.4 of words are in the 2000 most common words
    74.0 of words are in the 5000 most common words
    83.6 of words are in the 8000 most common words
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  • The Woman in White - 66
    Total number of words is 3548
    Total number of unique words is 925
    66.3 of words are in the 2000 most common words
    83.0 of words are in the 5000 most common words
    88.9 of words are in the 8000 most common words
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  • The Woman in White - 67
    Total number of words is 3481
    Total number of unique words is 930
    64.6 of words are in the 2000 most common words
    82.8 of words are in the 5000 most common words
    88.9 of words are in the 8000 most common words
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  • The Woman in White - 68
    Total number of words is 3398
    Total number of unique words is 1028
    57.6 of words are in the 2000 most common words
    76.6 of words are in the 5000 most common words
    84.1 of words are in the 8000 most common words
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  • The Woman in White - 69
    Total number of words is 3247
    Total number of unique words is 1087
    53.2 of words are in the 2000 most common words
    72.3 of words are in the 5000 most common words
    80.8 of words are in the 8000 most common words
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  • The Woman in White - 70
    Total number of words is 3422
    Total number of unique words is 1077
    55.1 of words are in the 2000 most common words
    75.5 of words are in the 5000 most common words
    83.7 of words are in the 8000 most common words
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  • The Woman in White - 71
    Total number of words is 3518
    Total number of unique words is 1048
    60.5 of words are in the 2000 most common words
    78.8 of words are in the 5000 most common words
    86.1 of words are in the 8000 most common words
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  • The Woman in White - 72
    Total number of words is 1680
    Total number of unique words is 653
    65.4 of words are in the 2000 most common words
    79.3 of words are in the 5000 most common words
    86.5 of words are in the 8000 most common words
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