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WILKIE COLLINS
MAN AND WIFE
Москва, 2018
УДК 82
ББК 84
Wilkie Collins
Man and Wife / W. Collins. – М. : T8RUGRAM / Original,
2018. – 698 с.
ISBN 978-5-521-06808-1
William Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright,
and short story writer. His best-known works are The Woman
in White (1859), No Name (1862), Armadale (1866) and The
Moonstone (1868). Collins’s works were classifi ed at the time as
«sensation novels», a genre seen nowadays as the precursor to
detective and suspense fi ction.
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ББК 84
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© T8RUGRAM, оформление, 2018
ISBN 978-5-521-06808-1 © Original, 2018
CONTENTS
PROLOGUE. THE IRISH MARRIAGE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Part the First . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Part the Second . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
FIRST SCENE. THE SUMMER-HOUSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
CHAPTER THE FIRST . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
CHAPTER THE SECOND . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
CHAPTER THE THIRD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
CHAPTER THE FOURTH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
CHAPTER THE FIFTH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
CHAPTER THE SIXTH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
CHAPTER THE SEVENTH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
CHAPTER THE EIGHTH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
SECOND SCENE. THE INN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .115
CHAPTER THE NINTH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
CHAPTER THE TENTH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
CHAPTER THE ELEVENTH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
CHAPTER THE TWELFTH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
CHAPTER THE THIRTEENTH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
THIRD SCENE. LONDON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
CHAPTER THE FOURTEENTH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
CHAPTER THE FIFTEENTH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
CHAPTER THE SIXTEENTH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
FOURTH SCENE. WINDYGATES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
CHAPTER THE SEVENTEENTH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
CHAPTER THE EIGHTEENTH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
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CHAPTER THE NINETEENTH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
CHAPTER THE TWENTIETH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
CHAPTER THE TWENTY-FIRST . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246
CHAPTER THE TWENTY-SECOND . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264
CHAPTER THE TWENTY-THIRD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
CHAPTER THE TWENTY-FOURTH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294
CHAPTER THE TWENTY-FIFTH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302
CHAPTER THE TWENTY-SIXTH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310
CHAPTER THE TWENTY-SEVENTH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316
CHAPTER THE TWENTY-EIGHTH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327
FIFTH SCENE. GLASGOW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333
CHAPTER THE TWENTY-NINTH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335
CHAPTER THE THIRTIETH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342
SIXTH SCENE. SWANHAVEN LODGE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347
CHAPTER THE THIRTY-FIRST . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349
CHAPTER THE THIRTY-SECOND . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366
CHAPTER THE THIRTY-THIRD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379
SEVENTH SCENE. HAM FARM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387
CHAPTER THE THIRTY-FOURTH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389
CHAPTER THE THIRTY-FIFTH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397
CHAPTER THE THIRTY-SIXTH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400
CHAPTER THE THIRTY-SEVENTH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415
CHAPTER THE THIRTY-EIGHTH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427
EIGHTH SCENE. THE PANTRY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439
CHAPTER THE THIRTY-NINTHA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441
NINTH SCENE. THE MUSIC-ROOM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451
CHAPTER THE FORTIETHJULI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453
TENTH SCENE. THE BEDROOM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471
CHAPTER THE FORTY-FIRST . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473
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ELEVENTH SCENE. SIR PATRICK’S HOUSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491
CHAPTER THE FORTY-SECOND . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 493
CHAPTER THE FORTY-THIRD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 498
CHAPTER THE FORTY-FOURTH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 509
THIRTEENTH SCENE. FULHAM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 525
CHAPTER THE FORTY-FIFTH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527
FOURTEENTH SCENE. PORTLAND PLACE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 543
CHAPTER THE FORTY-SIXTH. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 545
FIFTEENTH SCENE. HOLCHESTER HOUSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 573
CHAPTER THE FORTY-SEVENTH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 575
SIXTEENTH SCENE. SALT PATCH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 583
CHAPTER THE FORTY-EIGHTH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 585
CHAPTER THE FORTY-NINTH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 589
CHAPTER THE FIFTIETH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 601
CHAPTER THE FIFTY-FIRST . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 610
CHAPTER THE FIFTY-SECOND . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 617
CHAPTER THE FIFTY THIRD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 626
CHAPTER THE FIFTY-FOURTH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 635
CHAPTER THE FIFTY-FIFTH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 661
CHAPTER THE FIFTY-SIXTH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 678
CHAPTER THE FIFTY-SEVENTH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 681
EPILOGUE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 693
PROLOGUE
THE IRISH MARRIAGE
PART THE FIRST
THE VILLA AT HAMPSTEAD
I
ON a summer’s morning, between thirty and forty years ago, two
girls were crying bitterly in the cabin of an East Indian passenger
ship, bound outward, from Gravesend to Bombay.
They were both of the same age – eighteen. They had both, from
childhood upward, been close and dear friends at the same school.
They were now parting for the fi rst time – and parting, it might be,
for life.
The name of one was Blanche. The name of the other was Anne.
Both were the children of poor parents, both had been pupilteachers at the school; and both were destined to earn their own
bread. Personally speaking, and socially speaking, these were the
only points of resemblance between them.
Blanche was passably attractive and passably intelligent, and no
more. Anne was rarely beautiful and rarely endowed. Blanche’s parents were worthy people, whose fi rst consideration was to secure,
at any sacrifi ce, the future well-being of their child. Anne’s parents
were heartless and depraved. Their one idea, in connection with
their daughter, was to speculate on her beauty, and to turn her abilities to profi table account.
The girls were starting in life under widely different conditions.
Blanche was going to India, to be governess in the household of a
Judge, under care of the Judge’s wife. Anne was to wait at home until
the fi rst opportunity offered of sending her cheaply to Milan. There,
among strangers, she was to be perfected in the actress’s and the
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singer’s art; then to return to England, and make the fortune of her
family on the lyric stage.
Such were the prospects of the two as they sat together in the
cabin of the Indiaman locked fast in each other’s arms, and crying
bitterly. The whispered farewell talk exchanged between them – exaggerated and impulsive as girls’ talk is apt to be – came honestly, in
each case, straight from the heart.
“Blanche! you may be married in India. Make your husband
bring you back to England.”
“Anne! you may take a dislike to the stage. Come out to India if
you do.”
“In England or out of England, married or not married, we will
meet, darling – if it’s years hence – with all the old love between
us; friends who help each other, sisters who trust each other, for life!
Vow it, Blanche!”
“I vow it, Anne!”
“With all your heart and soul?”
“With all my heart and soul!”
The sails were spread to the wind, and the ship began to move
in the water. It was necessary to appeal to the captain’s authority
before the girls could be parted. The captain interfered gently and
fi rmly. “Come, my dear,” he said, putting his arm round Anne; “you
won’t mind me! I have got a daughter of my own.” Anne’s head fell
on the sailor’s shoulder. He put her, with his own hands, into the
shore-boat alongside. In fi ve minutes more the ship had gathered
way; the boat was at the landing-stage – and the girls had seen the
last of each other for many a long year to come.
This was in the summer of eighteen hundred and thirty-one.
II
Twenty-four years later – in the summer of eighteen hundred
and fi fty-fi ve – there was a villa at Hampstead to be let, furnished.
The house was still occupied by the persons who desired to let
it. On the evening on which this scene opens a lady and two gentlemen were seated at the dinner-table. The lady had reached the ma-
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