Book 1. Miss Butterworth‘s Window
Book 1. Miss Butterworth‘s Window - Chapter 1. A Discovery
_ BOOK I. MISS BUTTERWORTH‘S WINDOW
CHAPTER I. A DISCOVERY
I am not an inquisitive woman, but when, in the middle of a certain warm night in September, I heard a carriage draw up at the adjoining house and stop, I could not resist the temptation of leaving my bed and taking a peep through the curtains of my window.
First: because the house was empty, or supposed to be so, the family still being, as I had every reason to believe, in Europe； and secondly: because, not being inquisitive, I often miss in my lonely and single life much that it would be both interesting and profitable for me to know.
Luckily I made no such mistake this evening. I rose and looked out, and though I was far from realizing it at the time, took, by so doing, my first step in a course of inquiry which has ended----
But it is too soon to speak of the end. Rather let me tell you what I saw when I parted the

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