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Title: Shining Ferry

Author: Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

Release Date: November 28, 2007 [eBook #23647]

Language: English

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SHINING FERRY.

by

ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH ("Q").

1910

This e-text was prepared from a reprint of a version published in 1905.

CONTENTS

BOOK I.

I. ROSEWARNE OF HALL.

II. FATHERS AND CHILDREN.

III. ROSEWARNE'S PILGRIMAGE.

IV. ROSEWARNE'S PENANCE.

V. THE CLOSE OF A STEWARDSHIP.

VI. THE RAFTERS.

VII. THE HEIRS OF HALL.

BOOK II.

VIII. HESTER ARRIVES.

IX. MR. SAMUEL'S POLICY.

X. NUNCEY.

XI. HESTER IS ACCEPTED.

XII. THE OPENING DAY.

XIII. TOM TREVARTHEN INTERVENES.

XIV. MR. SAM IS MAGNANIMOUS.

XV. MYRA IN DISGRACE.

BOOK III.

XVI. AUNT BUTSON CLOSES SCHOOL.

XVII. PETER BENNEY'S DISMISSAL.

XVIII. RIGHT OF FERRY.

XIX. THE INTERCEDERS.

XX. AN OUTBURST.

XXI. MR. BENNY GETS PROMOTION.

XXII. CLEM IS LOST TO MYRA.

XXIII. HESTER WRITES A LOVE LETTER.

XXIV. THE RESCUE.

XXV. BUT TOM CAN WRITE.

XXVI. MESSENGERS.

XXVII. HOME.

CHAPTER I.

ROSEWARNE OF HALL.

John Rosewarne sat in his counting-house at Hall, dictating a letter to
his confidential clerk. The letter ran--

"Dear Sir,--In answer to yours of the 6th inst., I beg to inform you
that in consequence of an arrangement with the Swedish firms, by
which barrel-staves will be trimmed and finished to three standard
lengths before shipment, we are enabled to offer an additional
discount of five per cent, for the coming season on orders of five
thousand staves and upwards. Such orders, however, should reach us
before the fishery begins, as we hold ourselves free to