The Black Robe

By Wilkie Collins. THE BLACK ROBE by Wilkie Collins BEFORE THE STORY. FIRST SCENE.--BOULOGNE-SUR-MER.--THE DUEL. I. THE doctors could do no more for the Dowager Lady Berrick. When the medical advisers of a lady who has reached seventy years of age recommend the mild climate of the South of France, they mean in plain language that they have arrived at the end of their resources. Her ladyship gave the mild climate a fair trial, and then decided (as she herself expressed it) to “die at home.” Traveling slowly, sh