![]() ![]() Pursuing the couple on board a ship, Allan locked Fergus in a cabin and left him to drown when the ship was wrecked. In 1832, Allan Armadale confesses on his deathbed to murder: his clerk, Fergus Ingleby, stole his name and married Jane Blanchard, the woman Allan loved. ![]() I do not know if that was the first use of that phrase (I doubt it) but it is striking that Collins would use it for a chapter heading. One interesting note: the heading of Chapter VII is "The Plot Thickens". Armadale, Wilkie Collins’s longest novel and like another of his popular novels, The Moonstone, the narrative comprises a series of testimonies and accounts (such as from characters’ diaries and letters) which gradually shed light on the mystery. ![]()
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