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Every day, and from morning to night, I happened on others, each slight enough, but all together bearing witness to a ministering intelligence as subtle as it was untiring. "I am a light sleeper, as you know, with an uncomfortable knack of waking with the sun and roaming early. No matter how early I rose at Tresillack, Mrs. Carkeek seemed to have prevented me.
Carkeek as we embraced: and this was as close to familiarity as she allowed herself to go in the whole course of my acquaintance with her. "I spent three years at Tresillack, and all that while Mrs. Carkeek lived with me and shared the secret. Few women, I dare to say, were ever so completely wrapped around with love as we were during those three years.
Tresillack was the name of the house, which stood quite alone at the head of a coombe, within sound of the sea but without sight of it; for though the coombe led down to a wide open beach, it wound and twisted half a dozen times on its way, and its overlapping sides closed the view from the house, which was advertised as 'secluded. I was very poor in those days.
"It's such a little one." "The story, or the ghost?" "Both." And this was Miss Le Petyt's story: "It happened when I lived down in Cornwall, at Tresillack on the south coast.
He had bought the Tresillack estate twenty years before on mortgage, I fancy because the land adjoined his own and would pay him for tillage. But the house was a nuisance, an incubus; and had been so from the beginning. "'Well, miss, he said, 'you're welcome to look over it; a pretty enough place, inside and out.
It ran through my waking life like a song: it smoothed my pillow, touched and made my table comely, in summer lifted the heads of the flowers as I passed, and in winter watched the fire with me and kept it bright. "'Why did I ever leave Tresillack? Because one day, at the end of five years, Farmer Hosking brought me word that he had sold the house or was about to sell it; I forget which.
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