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A Stuga On the Cusp of the Orust Riviera, tucked away next to a hobbit hole in the woods.

The Dead Alive - Wilkie Collins Read It HereLaura rated it 4*1874 - "John Jago's Ghost; or The Dead Alive"First lines - "HEART all right," said the doctor. "Lungs all right. No organic disease that I can discover. Philip Lefrank, don't alarm yourself. You are not going to die yet. The disease you are suffering from is--overwork. The remedy in your case is--rest."The uneasiness mounts:Page 6: By way of making my first evening at the farm all the more embarrassing to me as a stranger, I discovered before long that the father and sons were talking indirectly _at_ each other, through Mr. Jago and through me.