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Updated: June 24, 2025
Corbet's marriage was over, she seemed to pass into a greater peace than she had known for years; the last faint hope of happiness was gone; it would, perhaps, be more accurate to say, of the bright happiness she had planned for herself in her early youth. Unconsciously, she was being weaned from self-seeking in any shape, and her daily life became, if possible, more innocent and pure and holy.
The priest kept his eyes steadily on the staircase, but was placed in such a position that he could see without being visible himself. At length Corbet's long scraggy neck was seen projecting like that of an ostrich across the banisters, which commanded a view of the shop through the glass door. Seeing the coast, as he thought, clear, he ventured to speak.
"Can't come it no how; cos why, I'm hove to, with the anchor hard and fast, ony they can't see that we're anchored." Suddenly a cry came over the water from a man on the quarter-deck. "Ship aho-o-o-o-o-oy!" "Hel-lo-o-o-o-o!" Such was the informal reply of Captain Corbet. "Heave to-o-o-o, till I send a boat aboard." "Hoo-r-a-a-a-a-ay!" Such was again Captain Corbet's cheerful and informal answer.
Corbet's daughter then came forward, and laying her hand on the baronet's shoulder, said, "Do you know me, Thomas Gourlay?" "No," replied the other, looking at her with fury; "you are a spectre; I have seen you before; you appeared to me once, and your words were false. Begone, you are a spectre a spirit of evil."
He is already aware that Corbet's present wife was his second, and that she had a daughter by her first marriage, who had gone abroad to the East Indies, many years ago, with her husband. This woman was no other than Mrs.
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