Category: Novel: Eve
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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 for sale at the same price (£4,500,000) in 2019. A medieval stone Manor House on the Dartmoor National Park in Devon that comes with 243…
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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, and the voices of the harvesters, pleasant and soft in the distance, as if the golden sun had subdued all the harshness in the tones…
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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 sweet about the house with the fragrance of hay, and the soft summer breath wafted the pollen and fine strands on its wings into the…
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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 father’s remonstrance and assurance that old Betty Westlake could look after the fellow well enough, she remained in the sick room after the rest had…
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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 the sun would have shone full on him had she not drawn a red curtain across the window, which subdued the light, and diffused a…
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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 Jane, and immediately Martin reassumed his hat with broad brim. Barbara did not notice the excitement of Eve; she had not observed the incident, because…
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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 to disengage herself from her arms, and master the frightened horse sufficiently to allow her to descend. A thorn tree tortured by the winds stood…
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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 wind and gathering darkness, in a little gig that accommodated only two, the body perched on very large and elastic springs. At every jolt of…
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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 over the down, from Beer Alston and Beer Ferris. I dare say you came along it, you took boat from Plymouth to Beer Ferris, and…
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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 form most of the boundaries between Devon from Cornwall. The book is available on Archive.org where I found it. However, the manuscript is difficult to…