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Updated: May 26, 2025
Corfield's house at Valparaiso. Coast-road to Coquimbo. Great loads carried by the miners. Coquimbo. Earthquake. Step-formed terraces. Absence of recent deposits. Contemporaneousness of the Tertiary formations. Excursion up the valley. Road to Guasco. Deserts. Valley of Copiapo. Rain and Earthquakes. Hydrophobia. The Despoblado. Indian ruins. Probable change of climate.
So now it was supposed that the last link connecting Leam with North Aston was broken, and that she was indeed blotted out and for ever. True love is faithful, and Alick Corfield's love was true.
They were not passages of abstract thought and impersonal sentiment, like the penciled notes in Alick Corfield's literary loans, but scenes of passion or of pathos, going straight to the heart of youth, which feels rather than reflects, or descriptions of places which were equal to pictures of human life.
If only you had been an Andalusian woman!" she sighed, as, in obedience to Mrs. Corfield's signal, she got up to prepare for dinner, and then home for her father and madame to-morrow.
Corfield's first outburst of indignation at her flight indignation not because she was really angry with Leam, but because Alick was unhappy. After Alick's stern rejoinder, "Mother, the next time you speak ill of Leam Dundas I will leave your house for ever," the subject dropped by mutual consent, but it was none the less a living barrier between them because raised and maintained in silence.
Corfield's philosopher, are like the ideal angels of loving fancy. If mamma saw and knew what was going on here at this present moment and Mrs. Birkett was not the bold questioner to doubt this continuance of interest she felt as she would have felt when alive, and she would be angry, jealous, weeping, unhappy. Mrs.
"Well, anyhow, you can read Aspasia Corfield's letter," she said, holding it out to him. "You know, really, that house isn't bad. They took over the Dryburghs' chef, and Aspasia knows how to pick her people." "Aspasia!" The tone of patronising intimacy! George blushed, if his mother did not. Yet he took the letter.
Members of the party near at hand were equally astonished, and called loudly to the others to "come and look at Corfield's twig." They, thinking it was due to the twig alone, soon ruined it, but I felt that I was possessed of some power, which previously I did not know I possessed, as I knew I was not turning the stick myself.
It seemed almost an eternity during which these thoughts passed through her brain, while she stood looking at Mrs. Corfield so intently that the little woman was obliged to lower her eyes. Not that Leam saw her. She was thinking, listening, but not seeing, though her tragic eyes seemed searching Mrs. Corfield's very soul.
Of all those who lived through the fever, poor Alick Corfield's case had been the most desperate while it lasted. Mr.
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