A slatternly woman was standing at the entrance of a narrow court in one of the worst parts of Chelsea. She was talking to a neighbour belonging to the next court, who had paused for a moment for a gossip in her passage towards a public-house. 'Your Sal is certainly an owdacious...
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Dorothy's Double: The Story Of A Great Deception is a novel written by George Alfred Henty in 1896. The book is set in the late 19th century and follows the story of Dorothy, a young woman who is forced to take on the identity of her deceased cousin in order to inherit her wealth...