She's All the World to Me
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Hall Sir Caine. She's All the World to Me
PROEM
CHAPTER I. MYLREA BALLADHOO
CHAPTER II. IN PEEL CASTLE
CHAPTER III "MACK'REL – MACKER-EL – MACK-ER-EL!"
CHAPTER IV. THE FIRST OF "THE HERRINGS"
CHAPTER V. CHRISTIAN MYLREA
CHAPTER VI. THE NET FACTORY
CHAPTER VII. THE LAST OF "THE HERRINGS"
CHAPTER VIII "SEEMS TO ME IT'S ALL NATHUR"
CHAPTER IX. THE HERRING MEAILLEY
CHAPTER X "THERE IS SORROW ON THE SEA"
CHAPTER XI. THE SHOCKIN' POWERFUL SKAME
CHAPTER XII. STRONG KNOTS OF LOVE
CHAPTER XIII. THE FLIGHT AND PURSUIT
CHAPTER XIV "BILL IS GONE TO BED"
CHAPTER XV. A RESURRECTION INDEED
CHAPTER XVI. GOD'S WRITING ON THE SEA
CHAPTER XVII "OH, ABSALOM, MY SON, MY SON"
CHAPTER XVIII. SHE'S ALL THE WORLD TO ME
CHAPTER XIX. THE WORLD'S WANT IS MEN
CHAPTER XX. THE FAIRY THAT CAME FOR RUBY
CHAPTER XXI. OIEL VERREE
CHAPTER XXII. ON THE MOAR REEF
CHAPTER XXIII. THREE YEARS AFTER
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The season was early summer; the year 1850. The morning had been bright and calm, but a mist had crept up from the sea as the day wore on, and the night, when it came, was close, dark, and dumb. Laden with its salt scent, the dank vapor had enveloped an old house on the "brew" behind the town. It was a curious place – ugly, long, loose, and straggling. One might say it was a featureless and irresolute old fabric. Over the porch was printed, "Prepare to meet thy God." It was called Balladhoo, and, with its lands, it had been for ages the holding of the Mylreas, an ancient Manx family, once rich and consequently revered, now notoriously less wealthy and proportionately more fallible.
In this house there was a parlor that faced the bay and looked out towards the old castle and the pier at the mouth of the harbor. Over the mantel-piece was carved "God's Providence is Mine Inheritance." One might add that it was a melancholy old mansion.
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Mona had again started the loom, and was rattling at the levers with more than ordinary energy. Christian watched her for a minute with conflicting feelings. He felt that his manhood was being put to a severe strain. Therefore, assuming as much masculine superiority of manner as he could command, he said:
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