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The Elizabeth Gaskell Library · September 19 · 11 min

A Dark Night's Work Chapter 2

In which the gentleman Edward Wilkins, mindful of his humble professional origins and ambitious for social refinement, unites in marriage with the graceful and sensitive Lettice Lamotte, whose delicate position and family history temper her social aspirations with melancholy. Together they inhabit a home of cultivated elegance and quiet affection, yet beneath the surface stir the tender vulnerabilities of love and loss that soon cast their gentle shadow over their family circle.

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In which the gentleman Edward Wilkins, mindful of his humble professional origins and ambitious for social refinement, unites in marriage with the graceful and sensitive Lettice Lamotte, whose delicate position and family history temper her social aspirations with melancholy. Together they inhabit a home of cultivated elegance and quiet affection, yet beneath the surface stir the tender vulnerabilities of love and loss that soon cast their gentle shadow over their family circle.

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