# Basil

Author: Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889

Genre: Category: Novels

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4605

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Basil+Collins&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Perhaps, because I think that my narrative may do good; because I hope that, one day, it may be put to some warning use. I am now about to relate the story of an error, innocent in its beginning, guilty in its progress, fatal in its results; and I would fain hope that my plain and true record will show that this error was not committed altogether without excuse. When these pages are found after my death, they will perhaps be calmly read and gently judged, as relics solemnized by the atoning shadows of the grave. Then, the hard sentence against me may be repented of; the children of the next generation of our house may be taught to speak charitably of my memory, and may often, of their own...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/basil-4605/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/basil-4605/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/basil-4605/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/basil-4605/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/basil-4605/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/basil-4605/chapters/4/index.md)