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Updated: June 22, 2025
But to the population of Aberalva in general, the coming event is one of awful jubilation.
Headley; it will kill you! All that horrible fever and cholera!" "And what possible harm can it do me, if it does kill me, Miss St. Just!" "Mr. Headley, this is madness! I we cannot allow you to throw away your life thus so young, and and such prospects before you! And there is nothing that my brother would not do for you, were it only for your heroism at Aberalva.
Her mother had hidden it in a cave on the shore, and Grace, following her there, came upon the hiding-place. The shock of detection brought out the disease against which Mrs. Harvey had taken so many precautions, and within two days the unhappy woman was dead. Grace sold all her mother's effects, paid off all creditors, and with a few pounds left, vanished from Aberalva.
But that brown Tannus far away, or that brown Hundsruck opposite, with its deep-wooded gorges barred with level gleams of light across black gulfs of shade, might well be Dartmoor, or Carcarrow moor itself, high over Aberalva town, which he will see no more.
Longing to know more of Elsley, if possible, to guide and help him, he tried to be intimate with him, as he had tried at Aberalva; paid him court, asked his opinion, talked to him on all subjects which he thought would interest him. His conclusion was more favourable to Elsley's head than to his heart.
And there sprang up in him at once the intensest yearning after his father and the haunts of his boyhood, and the wildest dread that he should never see them. II. The Wreck Half the village of Aberalva is collected on the long sloping point of a cliff.
That Aberalva curate, Headley, had; and so had Briggs, in his own way. I thought him once only a poor discontented devil, who quarrelled with his bread and butter because he hadn't teeth to eat it with: but there was more in the fellow, coxcomb as he was.
She had heard that day, with some sorrow, his announcement that he wished to be gone; but as he did not refer to it again, she left the thought alone, and all but forgot it. The subject, however, was renewed about a week afterwards. "When you return to Aberalva," she had said, in reference to some commission. "I shall never return to Aberalva." "Not return?"
I trust nothing unpleasant has brought them here." "Mrs. Vavasour is very ill. We had thoughts of sending for you, as the family physician was out of town: but she was out of danger, thank God, in a few hours. Now let me ask in turn after you. I hope no unpleasant business brings you up three hundred miles from your practice?" "Nothing, I assure you. Only I have given up my Aberalva practice.
But he was come at last, with appetite more fierce than ever, and had darted aside to seize on Aberalva, and not to let it go till he had sucked his fill.
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