The Light of Scarthey: A Romance
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Castle Egerton. The Light of Scarthey: A Romance
PART I. SIR ADRIAN LANDALE, LIGHT-KEEPER OF SCARTHEY
CHAPTER I. THE PEEL OF SCARTHEY
CHAPTER II. THE LIGHT-KEEPER
CHAPTER III. DAY DREAMS: A PHILOSOPHER'S FATE
CHAPTER IV. DAY DREAMS: A FAIR EMISSARY
CHAPTER V. THE AWAKENING
CHAPTER VI. THE WHEEL OF TIME
CHAPTER VII. FOREBODINGS OF GLADNESS
CHAPTER VIII. THE PATH OF WASTED YEARS
CHAPTER IX. A GENEALOGICAL EPISTLE
PART II "MURTHERING MOLL THE SECOND"
CHAPTER X. THE THRESHOLD OF WOMANHOOD
CHAPTER XI. A MASTERFUL OLD MAID
CHAPTER XII. A RECORD AND A PRESENTMENT
CHAPTER XIII. THE DISTANT LIGHT
CHAPTER XIV. THE TOWER OF LIVERPOOL: MASTER AND MAN
CHAPTER XV. UNDER THE LIGHT
CHAPTER XVI. THE RECLUSE AND THE SQUIRE
PART III "CAPTAIN JACK," THE GOLD SMUGGLER
CHAPTER XVII. THE GOLD SMUGGLER AND THE PHILOSOPHER
CHAPTER XVIII "LOVE GILDS THE SCENE AND WOMAN GUIDES THE PLOT"
CHAPTER XIX. A JUNIOR'S OPINION
CHAPTER XX. TWO MONTHS LATER: THE QUICK AND THE DEAD
CHAPTER XXI. THE DAWN OF AN EVENTFUL DAY
CHAPTER XXII. THE DAY: MORNING
CHAPTER XXIII. THE DAY: NOON
CHAPTER XXIV. THE NIGHT
CHAPTER XXV. THE FIGHT FOR THE OPEN
CHAPTER XXVI. THE THREE COLOURS
CHAPTER XXVII. THE LIGHT AGAIN – THE LADY AND THE CARGO
CHAPTER XXVIII. THE END OF THE THREAD
CHAPTER XXIX. THE LIGHT GOES OUT
CHAPTER XXX. HUSBAND AND WIFE
CHAPTER XXXI. IN LANCASTER CASTLE
CHAPTER XXXII. THE ONE HE LOVED AND THE ONE WHO LOVED HIM
CHAPTER XXXIII. LAUNCHED ON THE GREAT WAVE
CHAPTER XXXIV. THE GIBBET ON THE SANDS
CHAPTER XXXV. THE LIGHT REKINDLED
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Alone in the south and seaward corner of the great bight on the Lancastrian coast – mournfully alone some say, gloriously alone to my thinking – rises in singular unexpected fashion the islet of Scarthey; a green oasis secure on its white rocky seat amidst the breezy wilderness of sands and waters.
There is, in truth, more sand than water at most times round Scarthey. For miles northward the wet strand stretches its silent expanse, tawny at first, then merging into silver grey as in the dim distance it meets the shallow advance of briny ripple. Wet sand, brown and dull, with here and there a brighter trail as of some undecided river seeking an aimless way, spreads westward, deep inland, until stopped in a jagged line by bluffs that spring up abruptly in successions of white rocky steps and green terraces.
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"I shall go away from your honour the day when your honour dismisses me. If your honour decides to live on this rock till my hour, or his, strikes – on this rock with him I remain. I am not conceited, I hope, but what, pray, will become of your honour here without me?"
There was force in this last remark, simply as it was pronounced. Through the mist of interlacing thoughts suggested by the word Peace! (the end of the Revolution, that distant event which, nevertheless, had had such sweeping influence over the course of his whole life), it brought a faint smile to Sir Adrian's lips.
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