Category: Novel: Eve
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Eve – A Novel (Chapter 10)
BARBARA’S PETITION. MIDSUMMER-DAY was come. Mr. Jordan was in suspense and agitation. His pale face was more livid and drawn than usual. The fears inspired by the surgeon had taken […]
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Morwell House – For Sale
For more on the amazing Morwell house (or Barton as the article refers to it) see this posting as it went up for sale in 2022. It was also up […]
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Eve – A Novel (Chapter 9)
CHAPTER IX. THE POCKET-BOOK. Jasper drew in full draughts of the delicious air, leaning back on the bench, himself in shade, watching the trees, hearing the hum of the bees, […]
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Eve – A Novel (Chapter 8)
CHAPTER VIII. BAB. As Jasper recovered, he saw less of the sisters. June had come, and with it lovely weather, and with the lovely weather the haysel. The air was […]
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Eve – A Novel (Chapter 7)
CHAPTER VII. A NIGHT-WATCH. Barbara had passed her word to remain all night with the sick man, should he prove delirious; she was scrupulously conscientious, and in spite of her […]
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Eve – A Novel (Chapter 6)
CHAPTER VI. A BUNDLE OF CLOTHES. Barbara Jordan sat by the sick man with her knitting on her lap, and her eyes fixed on his face. He was asleep, and […]
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Eve – A Novel (Chapter 5)
CHAPTER V. THE LIMPING HORSE. Eve drew herself away with a cry of anger and alarm, and with sparkling eyes and flushed cheeks. At that moment her sister returned with […]
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Eve – A Novel (Chapter 4)
CHAPTER IV. EVE’S RING. Some moments elapsed before Barbara recovered her surprise, then she spoke a word of encouragement to Eve, who was in an ecstasy of terror, and tried […]
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Eve – A Novel (Chapter 3)
CHAPTER III. THE WHISH-HUNT. On a wild and blustering evening, seventeen years after the events related in the two preceding chapters, two girls were out, in spite of the fierce […]
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Eve – A Novel (Chapter 2)
CHAPTER II. THE LITTLE MOTHER. ‘LAST Christmas twelvemonth,’ said Ignatius Jordan slowly, ‘I was on the moor—Morwell Down it is called. Night was falling. The place—where the road comes along […]
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Eve: A Novel
The novel Eve was published in 1888 in Toronto, Canada. However, its roots lie distinctly along the River Tamar (which for some reason isn’t called the Tamar River) that helps […]