The Old Countess

During fourteen years Hepworth Closs had been a wanderer over the earth. When he was carried out from the court-room after Mrs. Yates' confession of a crime which he had shrinkingly believed committed by another, he had fainted from the suddenness with which a terrible load had been lifted from his soul. In that old woman's guilt he had no share. It swept the blackness from the marriage he had protested against as hideously wicked. The wrong he had done was divested of the awful responsibilities which had seemed more than he could bear. The revelation had made him, comparatively, an innocent and free man. But a shock had been given to his whole being which unfitted him for the common uses of society.

Author: Ann Stephens

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Publication Date: Jun 28, 2018

Number of Pages: 234 pages

Language: English

Binding: Paperback

ISBN-10: 1717343252

ISBN-13: 9781717343253