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Elizabeth was his only daughter, but he had a son who was much older than Elizabeth a handsome, gay young man about whom little was known in St. Penfer. That little was not altogether favourable. It was understood that he painted pictures and played very finely on the piano, and every one could see that he dressed in the most fashionable manner and that he was handsome and light-hearted.
"Yes, I be true Cornish, mother, and the money I have is honest money. Father can take it without a doubt. But I will see Lawyer Tremaine, and he shall put the sum I got in the St. Penfer News, and tell what I got it for, and none can say I did wrong to take my widow right." "I be so happy, Denas! I be so happy! My old dear will have his own boat! My old dear will have his own boat!"
She looked for no extraordinary thing, for no special favour to brighten their uniform occupations and simple pleasures. She had taken the first train she could, without considering the time of its arrival in St. Penfer. She told herself that there would be a certain amount of gossip about her return, and that it could not be avoided by either a public or private arrival.
Penfer? I am only twenty-nine, and the pleasures of life are necessities to me." "I am only nineteen, Roland." "But then you are a girl that is such a different thing." "Yes, it is a different thing," and Elizabeth laid down the piece of linen she was stitching and looked up at the handsome fellow who was leaning against the open window and puffing his cigar smoke out of it.
She might yet find it necessary to her happiness; for without some change she could not much longer endure the idleness and monotony of her life. Fortunately the change came. One morning a woman visited the cottage, and the sole burden of her conversation was the lack of a school in St. Penfer by the Sea to which the fisher-children might go in the morning.
I wonder what I have done?" To such futile questions and reflections, she walked back to St. Penfer. She had not yet found out that the sum of her offending lay in her ability to add the four letters which spelled the word fair to her name. If she had been strikingly ugly and dull, instead of strikingly pretty and bright, Elizabeth would have found it easier to be kind and generous to her.
I want to go among the trees and flowers." "Aw, my dear, you will be climbing and climbing up to St. Penfer; and you be weak yet and not able to." "I will not climb at all. I will walk near the shingle; and I will take a bit of bread with me and a drink of milk; then I can rest all day on the grass, mother." "God bless you, dear!
"And if Tris Penrose win her and she win him, a proper wedding it will be a wedding made by their guardian angel. I do think that." And the group of women present answered one and then another, "A proper wedding it will be, to be sure." In the evening there was a great praise-meeting at John's cottage; for in St. Penfer all rejoicing and all sorrow ended in a religious meeting.
As the weeks went by her school got a local fame; it was considered a great privilege to obtain a place in it. Good fortune seemed to have come to St. Penfer by the Sea when Denas came back to it. Never had there been a more abundant sea-harvest than that summer. The Darling Denas brought luck to the whole fleet.
She spoke them again, smiling with frank delight and love into his face. "Thank God! Now tell me about it! Joan, my old dear, come and tell me about it." Then they sat down together and told him all, and showed him the St. Penfer News containing Lawyer Tremaine's statement regarding the property which had come of right to Denas.
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