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I HAD intended to have gone into a family history of the Ravenshoes, from the time of Canute to that of her present Majesty, following it down through every change and revolution, both secular and religious; which would have been deeply interesting, but which would have taken more hard reading than one cares to undertake for nothing.

Ravenshoe Preface

The language used in telling the following story is not (as I hope the reader will soon perceive) the Author's, but Mr. William Marston's.

The Author's intention was, while telling the story, to develop, in the person of an imaginary narrator, the character of a thoroughly good-hearted and tolerably clever man, who has his fingers (as he would say himself) in every one's pie, and who, for the life of him, cannot keep his own counsel - that is to say, the only person who, by any possibility, could have collected the mass of family gossip which makes up the tale.

Had the Author told it in his own person, it would have been told with less familiarity, and, as he thinks, you would not have laughed quite so often.

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I stood at my mother’s open grave in the freezing rain, my heels sinking into the mud. The space beside me was empty. My husband, Hilliard Holloway, had promised to cherish me in bad times, but apparently, burying my mother didn't fit into his busy schedule. While the priest’s voice droned on, a news alert lit up my phone. It was a livestream of the Metropolitan Charity Gala. There was Hilliard, looking impeccable in a custom tuxedo, with his ex-girlfriend Charla English draped over his arm. The headline read: "Holloway & English: A Power Couple Reunited?" When he finally returned to our penthouse at 2 AM, he didn't come alone—he brought Charla with him. He claimed she’d had a "medical emergency" at the gala and couldn't be left alone. I found a Tiffany diamond necklace on our coffee table meant for her birthday, and a smudge of her signature red lipstick on his collar. When I confronted him, he simply told me to stop being "hysterical" and "acting like a child." He had no idea I was seven months pregnant with his child. He thought so little of my grief that he didn't even bother to craft a convincing lie, laughing with his mistress in our home while I sat in the dark with a shattered heart and a secret life growing inside me. "He doesn't deserve us," I whispered to the darkness. I didn't scream or beg. I simply left a folder on his desk containing signed divorce papers and a forged medical report for a terminated pregnancy. I disappeared into the night, letting him believe he had successfully killed his own legacy through his neglect. Five years later, Hilliard walked into "The Vault," the city's most exclusive underground auction, looking for a broker to manage his estate. He didn't recognize me behind my Venetian mask, but he couldn't ignore the neon pink graffiti on his armored Maybach that read "DEADBEAT." He had no clue that the three brilliant triplets currently hacking his security system were the very children he thought had been erased years ago. This time, I wasn't just a wife in the way; I was the one holding all the cards.

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“I HAD intended to have gone into a family history of the Ravenshoes, from the time of Canute to that of her present Majesty, following it down through every change and revolution, both secular and religious; which would have been deeply interesting, but which would have taken more hard reading than one cares to undertake for nothing.”
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Preface

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Chapter 1. An Account of the Family of Ravenshoe

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Chapter 2. Supplementary to the Foregoing

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Chapter 3. In which Our Hero's Troubles Begin

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Chapter 4. Father Mackworth

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Chapter 5. Ranford

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Chapter 6. The Warren Hastings

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Chapter 7. In which Charles and Lord Welter Distinguish Themselves at the University

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Chapter 8. John Marston

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Chapter 9. Adelaide

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Chapter 10. Lady Ascot's Little Nap

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Chapter 11

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Chapter 12

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Chapter 13. The Black Hare

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Chapter 14. Lord Saltire's Visit, and Some of His Opinions

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Chapter 15. Charles's "Liddell and Scott."

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Chapter 16. Marston's Arrival

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Chapter 17. In which There is Another Shipwreck

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Chapter 18. Marston's Disappointment

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Chapter 19. Ellen's Flight

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Chapter 20. Ranford Again

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Chapter 21. Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos

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Chapter 22. The Last Glimpse of Oxford

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Chapter 23 The Last Glimpse of the Old World

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Chapter 24. The First Glimpse of the New World

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Chapter 25

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Chapter 26. The Grand Crash

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Chapter 27 The Coup De Grace

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Chapter 28. Flight

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Chapter 29. Charles's Retreat Upon London

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Chapter 30. Mr. Sloane

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Chapter 31. Lieutenant Hornby

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Chapter 32. Some of the Humours of a London Mews

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Chapter 33 A Glimpse of Some Old Friends

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Chapter 34. In which Fresh Mischief is Brewed

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Chapter 35

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Chapter 36. The Derby

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Chapter 37. Lord Welter's Menage

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Chapter 38. The House Full of Ghosts

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Chapter 39 Charles's Explanation with Lord Welter

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