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An [[Affectionate Parody]] of overwrought Gothic romances by Bret Harte, ''[[Selina Sedilia]]'' is the story of the titular Lady Selina, her rakish lover Edgardo, and so many cliches and tropes crammed into nine short chapters that an ancient, ghost-ridden Gothic mansion can barely contain all of them.
It can be found on Wikisource [https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Selina_Sedilia here].
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* [[Bit Part Badguys]]: Burke the Slogger, who is introduced in this immortal manner in Chapter III: ''"I be's here, measter," said the villain, with a disgracefully low accent and complete disregard of grammatical rules.''
* [[Dark and Troubled Past]]: Selina is planning to marry Edgardo bigamously while keeping him ignorant of her living husband, her two legitimate and three natural children she's hidden under the western tower, and the fact that she poisoned her sister at the age of seven, threw her cousin from a swing, and drowned her lady's maid in the horse-pond. If only she knew Edgardo's history is at least as dark and troubled as her own...
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