The West Wing Chamber
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What shameful secrets lie hidden in the Deverneys' past and the beautiful, mysterious chamber in the West Wing which still exerts such an irresistible allure?
Poor lovely, feted Lady Seraphine, the lost heiress of the Deverneys, found at last and returned home to Merleton Court. But perhaps it had always been too late to escape her fate...
MIREILLE PAVANE
Mireille Pavane cannot recall exactly when she began messing about with books and literature but since then (brainwashed at a young age by the French and Russian writers and E.M. Forster) it has remained an abiding love. Mireille continues to scribble away in secret when not otherwise distracted by a professional career or gardening duties in her alternate life. She also has an unhealthy curiosity and fondness for footnotes which she attempts to curtail from time to time. Mireille is a member of the international and local chapters of the Village Idiots’ Guild.
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The West Wing Chamber - MIREILLE PAVANE
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Copyright © 2018 Mireille Pavane
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This is a work of fiction. Apart from the well-known actual people, events, and locales that figure in the narrative, all names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to current events or locales, or to living persons, is entirely coincidental.
ISBN (e-book): 9788835861515
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THE WEST WING CHAMBER
Something is not quite right about Merleton Court. Beneath the veneer of warm welcome from the society ladies and the flattering attentions of the charming young gentlemen, beneath the uneasy whispers of the servants and the gossiping tongues of the villagers, something dark lurks about the forbidding ancestral home of the Deverneys and prowls its lonely grounds and passageways.
What shameful secrets lie hidden in the Deverneys’ past and the beautiful, mysterious chamber in the West Wing which still exerts such an irresistible allure?
Poor lovely, feted Lady Seraphine, the lost heiress of the Deverneys, found at last and returned home to Merleton Court. But perhaps it had always been too late to escape her fate...
DEDICATION
To the teachers who introduced me to literature, history and Greek mythology—thank you.
EPIGRAPH
By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes.
—Macbeth (Act 4, Scene 1), William Shakespeare
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Copyright Page
Synopsis
Dedication
Epigraph
Table of Contents
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Author’s Note
Thank You for Reading
Also by Mireille Pavane
About the Author
CHAPTER ONE
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I saw the avenue of alders through the carriage window. Merleton Court, the driver told me. The park and grounds, I saw as the landscape rolled past the carriage window, were extensive and had about them a wintry verdure, spangled with the frail outlines of shivering, emaciated trees, and beyond this spectral boundary spread an endless expanse of ashen blue.
The carriage juddered to a stop before a mansion of heavy grey stone and menacing gloom, towering above the trees like a medieval warrior prince. Its spirit was ancient and forbidding and scornful of anyone who dared to come near.
I sat in the carriage, caught in a dread of indecision. Mr Newberry, of the estate’s solicitors, had said that I need not have concerned myself with this remote country