Collected Stories by Mary E. Braddon is about a handsome and beloved young German suitor with unrequited love, a giant mansion in which only 3 elderly people live, and many more strange and wonderful tales. Excerpt: "He was an artist--such things as happened to him happen sometimes to artists. He was a German--such things as happened to him happen sometimes to Germans. He was young, handsome, studious, enthusiastic, metaphysical, reckless, unbelieving, and heartless. And being young, handsome, and eloquent, he was beloved. He was an orphan, under the guardianship of his dead father's brother, his uncle Wilhelm…"
