Category: Humour
Her father was a poor Norman labourer. Her mother died while she was a child. From an early age Marie had learnt to get her own living by going out to service. Three different mistresses tried her while she was a very young girl, and found every reason to be satisfied with her...
One resource was left her, by employing which it was possible, at the last moment, to avert for a few months the frightful prospect of the torture and the stake. The unfortunate...
3. CHAPTER III. THE EVIDENCE.Thus far, the case is one of suspicion only. Waiting until the end of the trial before we decide on whom that suspicion ought to rest, let us now hear the evidence by which the...
4. CHAPTER IV. THE SENTENCE.While the inquiry was in course of progress, various details connected with it found their way out of doors. The natural sense of justice among the people which had survived the...
2. CHAPTER II. THE ARSENIC.On returning to the kitchen to go on with her work, the exhaustion against which Marie had hitherto fought successfully, overpowered her the moment she sat down; her heavy head...
1. CHAPTER I. THE POCKETS.Her father was a poor Norman labourer. Her mother died while she was a child. From an early age Marie had learnt to get her own living by going out to service. Three different m...