The Woman in White - 40

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The third day's post brought me a most impertinent letter from a person with whom I was totally unacquainted. He described himself as the acting partner of our man of business—our dear, pig-headed old Gilmore—and he informed me that he had lately received, by the post, a letter addressed to him in Miss Halcombe's handwriting. On opening the envelope, he had discovered, to his astonishment, that it contained nothing but a blank sheet of note-paper. This circumstance appeared to him so suspicious (as suggesting to his restless legal mind that the letter had been tampered with) that he had at once written to Miss Halcombe, and had received no answer by return of post. In this difficulty, instead of acting like a sensible man and letting things take their proper course, his next absurd proceeding, on his own showing, was to pester me by writing to inquire if I knew anything about it. What the deuce should I know about it? Why alarm me as well as himself? I wrote back to that effect. It was one of my keenest letters. I have produced nothing with a sharper epistolary edge to it since I tendered his dismissal in writing to that extremely troublesome person, Mr. Walter Hartright.

My letter produced its effect. I heard nothing more from the lawyer.

This perhaps was not altogether surprising. But it was certainly a remarkable circumstance that no second letter reached me from Marian, and that no warning signs appeared of her arrival. Her unexpected absence did me amazing good. It was so very soothing and pleasant to infer (as I did of course) that my married connections had made it up again. Five days of undisturbed tranquillity, of delicious single blessedness, quite restored me. On the sixth day I felt strong enough to send for my photographer, and to set him at work again on the presentation copies of my art-treasures, with a view, as I have already mentioned, to the improvement of taste in this barbarous neighbourhood. I had just dismissed him to his workshop, and had just begun coquetting with my coins, when Louis suddenly made his appearance with a card in his hand.

"Another Young Person?" I said. "I won't see her. In my state of health Young Persons disagree with me. Not at home."

"It is a gentleman this time, sir."

A gentleman of course made a difference. I looked at the card.

Gracious Heaven! my tiresome sister's foreign husband, Count Fosco.



Is it necessary to say what my first impression was when I looked at my visitor's card? Surely not! My sister having married a foreigner, there was but one impression that any man in his senses could possibly feel. Of course the Count had come to borrow money of me.

"Louis," I said, "do you think he would go away if you gave him five shillings?"

Louis looked quite shocked. He surprised me inexpressibly by declaring that my sister's foreign husband was dressed superbly, and looked the picture of prosperity. Under these circumstances my first impression altered to a certain extent. I now took it for granted that the Count had matrimonial difficulties of his own to contend with, and that he had come, like the rest of the family, to cast them all on my shoulders.

"Did he mention his business?" I asked.

"Count Fosco said he had come here, sir, because Miss Halcombe was unable to leave Blackwater Park."

Fresh troubles, apparently. Not exactly his own, as I had supposed, but dear Marian's. Troubles, anyway. Oh dear!

"Show him in," I said resignedly.

The Count's first appearance really startled me. He was such an alarmingly large person that I quite trembled. I felt certain that he would shake the floor and knock down my art-treasures. He did neither the one nor the other. He was refreshingly dressed in summer costume—his manner was delightfully self-possessed and quiet—he had a charming smile. My first impression of him was highly favourable. It is not creditable to my penetration—as the sequel will show—to acknowledge this, but I am a naturally candid man, and I do acknowledge it notwithstanding.

"Allow me to present myself, Mr. Fairlie," he said. "I come from Blackwater Park, and I have the honour and the happiness of being Madame Fosco's husband. Let me take my first and last advantage of that circumstance by entreating you not to make a stranger of me. I beg you will not disturb yourself—I beg you will not move."

"You are very good," I replied. "I wish I was strong enough to get up. Charmed to see you at Limmeridge. Please take a chair."

"I am afraid you are suffering to-day," said the Count.

"As usual," I said. "I am nothing but a bundle of nerves dressed up to look like a man."

"I have studied many subjects in my time," remarked this sympathetic person. "Among others the inexhaustible subject of nerves. May I make a suggestion, at once the simplest and the most profound? Will you let me alter the light in your room?"

"Certainly—if you will be so very kind as not to let any of it in on me."

He walked to the window. Such a contrast to dear Marian! so extremely considerate in all his movements!

"Light," he said, in that delightfully confidential tone which is so soothing to an invalid, "is the first essential. Light stimulates, nourishes, preserves. You can no more do without it, Mr. Fairlie, than if you were a flower. Observe. Here, where you sit, I close the shutters to compose you. There, where you do not sit, I draw up the blind and let in the invigorating sun. Admit the light into your room if you cannot bear it on yourself. Light, sir, is the grand decree of Providence. You accept Providence with your own restrictions. Accept light on the same terms."

I thought this very convincing and attentive. He had taken me in up to that point about the light, he had certainly taken me in.

"You see me confused," he said, returning to his place—"on my word of honour, Mr. Fairlie, you see me confused in your presence."

"Shocked to hear it, I am sure. May I inquire why?"

"Sir, can I enter this room (where you sit a sufferer), and see you surrounded by these admirable objects of Art, without discovering that you are a man whose feelings are acutely impressionable, whose sympathies are perpetually alive? Tell me, can I do this?"

If I had been strong enough to sit up in my chair I should, of course, have bowed. Not being strong enough, I smiled my acknowledgments instead. It did just as well, we both understood one another.

"Pray follow my train of thought," continued the Count. "I sit here, a man of refined sympathies myself, in the presence of another man of refined sympathies also. I am conscious of a terrible necessity for lacerating those sympathies by referring to domestic events of a very melancholy kind. What is the inevitable consequence? I have done myself the honour of pointing it out to you already. I sit confused."

Was it at this point that I began to suspect he was going to bore me? I rather think it was.

"Is it absolutely necessary to refer to these unpleasant matters?" I inquired. "In our homely English phrase, Count Fosco, won't they keep?"

The Count, with the most alarming solemnity, sighed and shook his head.

"Must I really hear them?"

He shrugged his shoulders (it was the first foreign thing he had done since he had been in the room), and looked at me in an unpleasantly penetrating manner. My instincts told me that I had better close my eyes. I obeyed my instincts.

"Please break it gently," I pleaded. "Anybody dead?"

"Dead!" cried the Count, with unnecessary foreign fierceness. "Mr. Fairlie, your national composure terrifies me. In the name of Heaven, what have I said or done to make you think me the messenger of death?"

"Pray accept my apologies," I answered. "You have said and done nothing. I make it a rule in these distressing cases always to anticipate the worst. It breaks the blow by meeting it half-way, and so on. Inexpressibly relieved, I am sure, to hear that nobody is dead. Anybody ill?"

I opened my eyes and looked at him. Was he very yellow when he came in, or had he turned very yellow in the last minute or two? I really can't say, and I can't ask Louis, because he was not in the room at the time.

"Anybody ill?" I repeated, observing that my national composure still appeared to affect him.

"That is part of my bad news, Mr. Fairlie. Yes. Somebody is ill."

"Grieved, I am sure. Which of them is it?"

"To my profound sorrow, Miss Halcombe. Perhaps you were in some degree prepared to hear this? Perhaps when you found that Miss Halcombe did not come here by herself, as you proposed, and did not write a second time, your affectionate anxiety may have made you fear that she was ill?"

I have no doubt my affectionate anxiety had led to that melancholy apprehension at some time or other, but at the moment my wretched memory entirely failed to remind me of the circumstance. However, I said yes, in justice to myself. I was much shocked. It was so very uncharacteristic of such a robust person as dear Marian to be ill, that I could only suppose she had met with an accident. A horse, or a false step on the stairs, or something of that sort.

"Is it serious?" I asked.

"Serious—beyond a doubt," he replied. "Dangerous—I hope and trust not. Miss Halcombe unhappily exposed herself to be wetted through by a heavy rain. The cold that followed was of an aggravated kind, and it has now brought with it the worst consequence—fever."

When I heard the word fever, and when I remembered at the same moment that the unscrupulous person who was now addressing me had just come from Blackwater Park, I thought I should have fainted on the spot.

"Good God!" I said. "Is it infectious?"

"Not at present," he answered, with detestable composure. "It may turn to infection—but no such deplorable complication had taken place when I left Blackwater Park. I have felt the deepest interest in the case, Mr. Fairlie—I have endeavoured to assist the regular medical attendant in watching it—accept my personal assurances of the uninfectious nature of the fever when I last saw it."

Accept his assurances! I never was farther from accepting anything in my life. I would not have believed him on his oath. He was too yellow to be believed. He looked like a walking-West-Indian-epidemic. He was big enough to carry typhus by the ton, and to dye the very carpet he walked on with scarlet fever. In certain emergencies my mind is remarkably soon made up. I instantly determined to get rid of him.

"You will kindly excuse an invalid," I said—"but long conferences of any kind invariably upset me. May I beg to know exactly what the object is to which I am indebted for the honour of your visit?"

I fervently hoped that this remarkably broad hint would throw him off his balance—confuse him—reduce him to polite apologies—in short, get him out of the room. On the contrary, it only settled him in his chair. He became additionally solemn, and dignified, and confidential. He held up two of his horrid fingers and gave me another of his unpleasantly penetrating looks. What was I to do? I was not strong enough to quarrel with him. Conceive my situation, if you please. Is language adequate to describe it? I think not.

"The objects of my visit," he went on, quite irrepressibly, "are numbered on my fingers. They are two. First, I come to bear my testimony, with profound sorrow, to the lamentable disagreements between Sir Percival and Lady Glyde. I am Sir Percival's oldest friend—I am related to Lady Glyde by marriage—I am an eye-witness of all that has happened at Blackwater Park. In those three capacities I speak with authority, with confidence, with honourable regret. Sir, I inform you, as the head of Lady Glyde's family, that Miss Halcombe has exaggerated nothing in the letter which she wrote to your address. I affirm that the remedy which that admirable lady has proposed is the only remedy that will spare you the horrors of public scandal. A temporary separation between husband and wife is the one peaceable solution of this difficulty. Part them for the present, and when all causes of irritation are removed, I, who have now the honour of addressing you—I will undertake to bring Sir Percival to reason. Lady Glyde is innocent, Lady Glyde is injured, but—follow my thought here!—she is, on that very account (I say it with shame), the cause of irritation while she remains under her husband's roof. No other house can receive her with propriety but yours. I invite you to open it."

Cool. Here was a matrimonial hailstorm pouring in the South of England, and I was invited, by a man with fever in every fold of his coat, to come out from the North of England and take my share of the pelting. I tried to put the point forcibly, just as I have put it here. The Count deliberately lowered one of his horrid fingers, kept the other up, and went on—rode over me, as it were, without even the common coach-manlike attention of crying "Hi!" before he knocked me down.

"Follow my thought once more, if you please," he resumed. "My first object you have heard. My second object in coming to this house is to do what Miss Halcombe's illness has prevented her from doing for herself. My large experience is consulted on all difficult matters at Blackwater Park, and my friendly advice was requested on the interesting subject of your letter to Miss Halcombe. I understood at once—for my sympathies are your sympathies—why you wished to see her here before you pledged yourself to inviting Lady Glyde. You are most right, sir, in hesitating to receive the wife until you are quite certain that the husband will not exert his authority to reclaim her. I agree to that. I also agree that such delicate explanations as this difficulty involves are not explanations which can be properly disposed of by writing only. My presence here (to my own great inconvenience) is the proof that I speak sincerely. As for the explanations themselves, I—Fosco—I, who know Sir Percival much better than Miss Halcombe knows him, affirm to you, on my honour and my word, that he will not come near this house, or attempt to communicate with this house, while his wife is living in it. His affairs are embarrassed. Offer him his freedom by means of the absence of Lady Glyde. I promise you he will take his freedom, and go back to the Continent at the earliest moment when he can get away. Is this clear to you as crystal? Yes, it is. Have you questions to address to me? Be it so, I am here to answer. Ask, Mr. Fairlie—oblige me by asking to your heart's content."

He had said so much already in spite of me, and he looked so dreadfully capable of saying a great deal more also in spite of me, that I declined his amiable invitation in pure self-defence.

"Many thanks," I replied. "I am sinking fast. In my state of health I must take things for granted. Allow me to do so on this occasion. We quite understand each other. Yes. Much obliged, I am sure, for your kind interference. If I ever get better, and ever have a second opportunity of improving our acquaintance—"

He got up. I thought he was going. No. More talk, more time for the development of infectious influences—in my room, too—remember that, in my room!

"One moment yet," he said, "one moment before I take my leave. I ask permission at parting to impress on you an urgent necessity. It is this, sir. You must not think of waiting till Miss Halcombe recovers before you receive Lady Glyde. Miss Halcombe has the attendance of the doctor, of the housekeeper at Blackwater Park, and of an experienced nurse as well—three persons for whose capacity and devotion I answer with my life. I tell you that. I tell you, also, that the anxiety and alarm of her sister's illness has already affected the health and spirits of Lady Glyde, and has made her totally unfit to be of use in the sick-room. Her position with her husband grows more and more deplorable and dangerous every day. If you leave her any longer at Blackwater Park, you do nothing whatever to hasten her sister's recovery, and at the same time, you risk the public scandal, which you and I, and all of us, are bound in the sacred interests of the family to avoid. With all my soul, I advise you to remove the serious responsibility of delay from your own shoulders by writing to Lady Glyde to come here at once. Do your affectionate, your honourable, your inevitable duty, and whatever happens in the future, no one can lay the blame on you. I speak from my large experience—I offer my friendly advice. Is it accepted—Yes, or No?"

I looked at him—merely looked at him—with my sense of his amazing assurance, and my dawning resolution to ring for Louis and have him shown out of the room expressed in every line of my face. It is perfectly incredible, but quite true, that my face did not appear to produce the slightest impression on him. Born without nerves—evidently born without nerves.

"You hesitate?" he said. "Mr. Fairlie! I understand that hesitation. You object—see, sir, how my sympathies look straight down into your thoughts!—you object that Lady Glyde is not in health and not in spirits to take the long journey, from Hampshire to this place, by herself. Her own maid is removed from her, as you know, and of other servants fit to travel with her, from one end of England to another, there are none at Blackwater Park. You object, again, that she cannot comfortably stop and rest in London, on her way here, because she cannot comfortably go alone to a public hotel where she is a total stranger. In one breath, I grant both objections—in another breath, I remove them. Follow me, if you please, for the last time. It was my intention, when I returned to England with Sir Percival, to settle myself in the neighbourhood of London. That purpose has just been happily accomplished. I have taken, for six months, a little furnished house in the quarter called St. John's Wood. Be so obliging as to keep this fact in your mind, and observe the programme I now propose. Lady Glyde travels to London (a short journey)—I myself meet her at the station—I take her to rest and sleep at my house, which is also the house of her aunt—when she is restored I escort her to the station again—she travels to this place, and her own maid (who is now under your roof) receives her at the carriage-door. Here is comfort consulted—here are the interests of propriety consulted—here is your own duty—duty of hospitality, sympathy, protection, to an unhappy lady in need of all three—smoothed and made easy, from the beginning to the end. I cordially invite you, sir, to second my efforts in the sacred interests of the family. I seriously advise you to write, by my hands, offering the hospitality of your house (and heart), and the hospitality of my house (and heart), to that injured and unfortunate lady whose cause I plead to-day."

He waved his horrid hand at me—he struck his infectious breast—he addressed me oratorically, as if I was laid up in the House of Commons. It was high time to take a desperate course of some sort. It was also high time to send for Louis, and adopt the precaution of fumigating the room.

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    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
    Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.
  • 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
    Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.
  • 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
    Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.
  • 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
    Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.
  • 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
    Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.
  • 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
    Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.
  • 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
    Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.
  • 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
    Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.
  • 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
    Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.
  • 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
    Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.
  • 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
    Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.
  • 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
    Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.
  • 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
    Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.
  • 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
    Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.
  • 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
    Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.