文档介绍：Author: Mark Guy Pearse (1842-1930)
Text type: Prose
Date position: 1884
Editions: 1884, 1890, 1900
Source text:
Pearse, Mark Guy. 1884. Cornish Stories. London: T. Woolmer
e-text
Access and transcription: March 2011
Number of words: 43,174
Dialect represented: Cornwall
Produced by Laura Álvarez Macías
Revised by Maria F. Garcia-Bermejo Giner
Copyright © 2011- DING, The Salamanca Corpus, Universidad de Salamanca
CORNISH STORIES
BY
MARK GUY PEARSE
AUTHOR OF ‘DANIEL QUORM AND HIS RELIGIOUS NOTIONS,’‘SIMON JASPER,’
&c., &c.
Illustrated by Charles Tresidder
THIRD THOUSAND
LONDON:
T. WOOLMER, 2, CASTLE-STREET, CITY-ROAD, .;
AND 66, PATERNOSTER-ROW, ,
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HAYMAN BROTHERS AND LILY,
PRINTERS,
HATTON HOUSE, FARRINGDON ROAD.
LONDON, .
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TO E SMITH ESQ.,
OF TREVU,
CAMBORNE, CORNWALL,
THIS BOOK
IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED.
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CONTENTS
PAGE
MR. AND MRS. ROGERS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
HOW THEY GOT THE CHAPEL AT ST. PIRAN'S. . . . 53
UNCLE DICK CURNOW'S CONVERSION. . . . . . . . 91
A CORNISH GHOST STORY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
SHOW US A SIGN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
CHRISTMAS EVE IN THE ' VIVID '. . . . . . . . . . . 141
[1]
Mr and Mrs Rogers
A CHRISTMAS STORY.
[3]
MR. AND MRS. ROGERS
Chapter the First.
INTRODUCES US TO AN UNPROMISING COUPLE.
Mr. Rogers, what part may I give you, Sir?’ said Mrs. Rogers, stiffly—for Mrs. Rogers always carved.
She had knocked at the table with the handle of the carving-knife and said grace in a rapid monotone, and now, with the edges of her sleeves turned very lightly back, with a table-napkin
pinned at each shoulder, she stood resting the knife and fork on the fowl waiting for her husband's choice. Her lips were pressed together closely, while her eyes looked down from her lofty vantage-ground upon little Mr. Rogers.
As it will take him some time to reply, we may stay at the head of the table a moment or two longer. A reserved,