A Singer from the Sea. Amelia E. Barr

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       Amelia E. Barr

      A Singer from the Sea

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4064066175399

Table of Contents

       CHAPTER I.

       DENAS PENELLES.

       CHAPTER II.

       OH, THE PITY OF IT!

       CHAPTER III.

       THE COTTAGE BY THE SEA.

       CHAPTER IV.

       THE SEED OF CHANGE.

       CHAPTER V.

       WHAT SHALL BE DONE FOR ROLAND?

       CHAPTER VI.

       ELIZABETH AND DENAS.

       CHAPTER VII.

       IS THERE ANY SORROW LIKE LOVING?

       CHAPTER VIII.

       A SEA OF SORROW.

       CHAPTER IX.

       A PIECE OF MONEY AND A SONG.

       CHAPTER X.

       A VISIT TO ST. PENFER.

       CHAPTER XI.

       FATHERLY AND MOTHERLY.

       CHAPTER XII.

       A COWARDLY LOVE.

       CHAPTER XIII.

       DEATH IS DAWN.

       CHAPTER XIV.

       SORROW BRINGS US ALL HOME.

       CHAPTER XV.

       ONLY FRIENDS.

       CHAPTER XVI.

       THE “DARLING DENAS.”

       CHAPTER XVII.

       DENAS.

      A SINGER FROM THE SEA.

      1

CHAPTER I.

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DENAS PENELLES.

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“ ‘Tell me, my old friend, tell me why You sit and softly laugh by yourself.’ ‘It is because I am repeating to myself, Write! write Of the valiant strength, The calm, brave bearing Of the sons of the sea.’ ” ––French Rowing Song “And that is why I have written this book Of the things that live in your noble hearts. You are really the authors of it. I have only put into words The frank simplicity of your sailor life.” ––Guillaume de la Laudelle.

      From Padstow Point to Lundy Race is one of the wildest and grandest portions of the Cornish coast, and on it there is always somewhere a tossing sea, a stiff breeze above, and a sucking tide below. Great cliffs hundreds of feet high guard it, and from the top of them the land rolls 2 away in long ridges, brown and bare. These wild and rocky moors, full of pagan altars, stone crosses, and memorials of the Jew, the Phœnician, and the Cornu-British, are the land of our childhood’s fairy-folk––the home of Blunderbore and of Jack the Giant Killer, and the far grander

“Fable of Bellerus old, And the great vision of the Guarded Mount.”

      But it is the Undercliff which has the perennial charm for humanity, for all along its sloping face there are bewildering hummocks and hollows, checkered with purple rocks and elder-trees. Narrow footpaths curve in and out and up and down among the fields and farms, the orchards and the glimmering glades, and there the foxgloves grow so tall that they lift their dappled bells level with the eyes.

      Further down are queer, quiet towns, hundreds of years old, squeezed into the mouths of deep valleys––valleys full of delicate ferns and small wild roses and the white heath, a flower peculiar to the locality. And still lower––on the very shingle––are the amphibious-looking cottages of the fishermen. They are surrounded by nets and boats and lobster-pots. Noisy children paddle in the flowing tide, and large, brown, handsome women sit on the door-steps knitting the blue guernsey shirts and stockings which their husbands wear.

      Such a lonely, lovely spot is the little village of St. Penfer. It is so hidden in the clefts of the rocks that unless one had its secret and knew the 3 way of its labyrinth down the cliff-breast it