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WILKIE COLLINS (STORY DATE AUGUST-SEPTEMBER 1875)

SOURCE: Collins, Wilkie. "Miss Jéromette and the Clergyman." In Great Ghost Stories: 34 Classic Tales of the Supernatural, compiled by Robin Brockman, pp. 351-74. New York: Gramercy Books, 2002.

The following excerpt is from a short story originally published as "The Clergyman's Confession" in the 1875 August-September issue of The Canadian Monthly; it was retitled "Miss Jéromette and the Clergyman" and collected in Little Novels in 1887.

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I had sent the housekeeper out of my study. I was alone, with the photograph of the Frenchwoman on my desk.

There could surely be little doubt about the discovery that had burst upon me. The man who had stolen his way into my house, driven by the terror of a temptation that he dared not reveal, and the man who had been my unknown rival in the by-gone time, were one and the same!

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1. Introduction
2. Principal Works
3. Primary Sources
   1. Wilkie Collins (Story Date August-September 1875)
4. General Commentary
   1. Tamar Heller (Essay Date 1992)
5. Title Commentary
   1. The Woman in White
   2. Fred Botting (Essay Date 1996)
6. Further Reading