Produced by Daniel Fromont Mary Elizabeth Braddon (4 October 1835 - 4 February 1915), Milly Darrel (serialised in Belgravia November 1870 - January 1871), here taken from Milly Darrel and other stories Asher's Collection Emile Galette Paris 1873 ASHER'S COLLECTION OF ENGLISH AUTHORS. BRITISH AND AMERICAN. _COPYRIGHT EDITION_. VOL. 72. MILLY DARRELL AND OTHER STORIES BY M. E. BRADDON. IN ONE VOLUME. PARIS EMILE GALETTE, 12, RUE BONAPARTE. 1873. _This Edition is Copyright for Foreign Circulation only_. ASHER'S COLLECTION OF ENGLISH AUTHORS BRITISH AND AMERICAN. _COPYRIGHT EDITION_. VOL. 72. MILLY DARRELL AND OTHER TALES BY M.E. BRADDON. IN ONE VOLUME. ASHER'S EDITION BY THE SAME AUTHOR: ROBERT AINSLEIGH -- 3 VOL. TO THE BITTER END -- 3 VOL. MILLY DARRELL AND OTHER TALES. BY M. E. BRADDON AUTHOR OF "LADY AUDLEY'S SECRET," "ROBERT AINSLEIGH," ETC. _COPYRIGHT EDITION_. BERLIN A. ASHER & CO., PUBLISHERS, 1873. TO DR. AND MRS. BEAMAN, THE AUTHOR'S OLD AND VALUED FRIENDS, THIS BOOK IS AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED. CONTENTS. MILLY DARRELL -- PAGE 1 OLD RUDDERFORD HALL -- PAGE 179 THE SPLENDID STRANGER -- PAGE 235 MILLY DARRELL CHAPTER I. I BEGIN LIFE. I was just nineteen years of age when I began my career as articled pupil with the Miss Bagshots of Albury Lodge, Fendale, Yorkshire. My father was a country curate, with a delicate wife and four children, of whom I was the eldest; and I had known from my childhood that the day must come in which I should have to get my own living in almost the only vocation open to a poor gentleman's daughter. I had been fairly educated near home, and the first opportunity that arose for placing me out in the world had been gladly seized upon by my poor father, who consented to pay the modest premium required by the Miss Bagshots, in order that I might be taught the duties of a governess, and essay my powers of tuition upon the younger pupils at Albury Lodge.