Good Lady Ducayne
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
A young woman takes a well-paid job as companion to a wealthy old lady on the Riviera and wakes each morning paler, with strange marks on her arm. Braddon's 1896 story, with the original illustrations from The Strand Magazine.
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