An Unsentimental Journey through Cornwall

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Dinah Maria Mulock Craik. An Unsentimental Journey through Cornwall

An Unsentimental Journey through Cornwall

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DAY THE FIRST

DAY THE SECOND

DAY THE THIRD

DAY THE FOURTH

DAY THE FIFTH

DAY THE SIXTH

DAY THE SEVENTH

DAY THE EIGHTH

DAY THE NINTH

DAY THE TENTH

DAY THE ELEVENTH

DAY THE TWELFTH

DAY THE THIRTEENTH

DAYS FOURTEENTH, FIFTEENTH, AND SIXTEENTH—

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Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

Published by Good Press, 2019

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How cautious one should be over an idle word! All of a sudden the cheerful face clouded, the mouth began to quiver, with difficulty I saw he kept back the tears. It was a version in every-day life of Longfellow's most pathetic little poem, "The Two Locks of Hair."

"My wife broke her heart after the baby, I think. It died. She went off in consumption. It's fifteen months now"—(he had evidently counted them)—"fifteen months since I have been alone. I didn't like to give up my home and my bits of things; still, when a man has to come in wet and tired to an empty house——"

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