Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
This was the question which Naomi asked herself when she arose next morning, to see another peerless summer day smiling at her, but to feel none of the joy of harvest; only a heart as dull and desolate as if she had awakened to find herself amidst some dwindled hope-forsaken b...
This was the question which Naomi asked herself when she arose next morning, to see another peerless summer day smiling at her, but to feel none of the joy of harvest; only a he...
2. CHAPTER II.Joshua read the letter slowly, every word going to his heart like the thrust of a knife. He had been told that a man had addressed a confession of guilty love to his wife, and t...
3. CHAPTER III.In the sultry August afternoon--earth glorious in the full power of the sunshine--Oswald Pentreath went up to Matcherly Common. It was a long walk and a hot one, but in this lan...
4. CHAPTER IV.Tranquil and monotonous days hung like a cloud upon the little household of Combhaven. The daily round of labour, of eating and drinking in a spare and Spartan fashion, of prayi...
5. CHAPTER V.Naomi had never forgotten the awful look in her father’s face that afternoon in the wood. It haunted her in all places and at all seasons. The impression it had made upon her mi...
6. CHAPTER VI.It was March--just a year since the old Squire had been stricken with his fatal illness. The daffodils were blooming in sunny places; there was a faint tinge of green upon the h...
7. CHAPTER VII.‘Why should any one suppose him dead?’ asked Naomi, with a look that was half indignant, half apprehensive; ‘he has only been away a little more than six months. His brother has...
8. CHAPTER VIII.That idea of his brother’s suicide took no strong hold upon Arnold after his conversation with Naomi; but he could not put the possibility out of his mind altogether. That his b...
9. CHAPTER IX.Captain Pentreath went back to London on business of his own. He had to wind up his affairs with the shipowners who had employed him from the beginning of his career; and this w...
10. CHAPTER X.After his interview with Cynthia Haggard, Captain Pentreath reasoned himself into an easier state of mind about his missing brother. His sanguine nature leaned towards the brigh...
11. CHAPTER XI.Naomi thought long and deeply of that last interview with Arnold Pentreath. She was in nowise inclined to admit to herself that the sea-captain could now, or in any time to come...
12. CHAPTER XII.The claims of the business had kept Judith Haggard away from the prayer-meeting at Little Bethel. She now came out to the door, surprised and alarmed by the appearance of the ea...
13. CHAPTER XIII.Little Bethel was crammed to suffocation on the Sunday that followed the burial of Oswald Pentreath. Not only had the flock assembled in fullest force to hear their pastor impro...
14. CHAPTER XIV.Another bright June morning; newly-blown roses looking in at the open windows, born, like the butterflies, for a day. Naomi was astir earlier than usual after a sleepless night,...
15. CHAPTER XV.Joshua was far upon his road before Naomi had left the Grange. He had walked many miles in the dull gray of early morning, before the shadowy clouds had parted or the stars begu...
16. CHAPTER XVI.It happened as Joshua had calculated. The sun was setting as he entered quiet Penmoyle. The walk from Truro had tired him more than he had supposed possible. He could hardly dra...
17. CHAPTER XVII.The days wore on very slowly for Naomi in her father’s absence. Her heart was weighed down with anxiety on his account; but he had told her not to follow him, and, anxious thoug...