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    262 WEATHER-BOUND.

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    Which Among Like The A Sciences Certain ...

    onl fishers boa ' hu sted ts one were house scatt ered a homel here y _strang and lin there g p , arson but the hard island by

    the y grey church which nestled among the Scotch firs of its -d at the head of Church B . Out off from the world

    grave as this yar single house might be , yet ay at times it was not unfrequented by guests , for , in accordance with hospitable islan t d-

    rocks custom t , wh fi enever shermen a t ook p care stranded of the or sailors went t while o pieces for on all he of hiher , degreetheir good Jh P . , kept oen house

    hi g s wife Rebecca , cheerfull parson y dedicating , osep her , best room p , a low , spacious parlour looking seaward , to the service of this human

    jetsam and flotsam . And here , on a certain November morndis ing t , ress dim and for stormy hours , the t scene J opens h ha . s There been down is a shi on p th e

    beach , while , his wife is busied pas wi osep th kindly cares for guests who , God help them , perhaps are never to come . Some doubt like

    fresh this shado drift w -wood ed th . h ousewife _" They ' will s face be here she piled soon the ; Josep hearth h with has bht so said Rebecca aloudreassuring herself .

    _" roug And then how naany the fire blazes ! The fish-wives , say fires lighted for drowned men never burn with good will . " And as if well

    p apartment p lay leased ing a to . t c housand onfirm It lighted the vag omen up aries precisel , h of dar fi y k s blazed uch d br an ig ht in g t erior all ter , over hi as gher y the ou ,

    a may room have with often clean looked stone in floor to throu its g tables h some set old on D heavy utch p frame icture - ; workits straiht-backed chairs , its massive candlestands of

    _| 3 olished , metal g flanking a tall carved , press . Here were carved R chests embrand too , t ' like s own those han Rembrandt d was the portr loved ait to over paint the ; ay mantel , and p f iece rom ,

    leagues h frowning that y no of means from a from certain the w the e Zuy Jacob ll wall p der leased Flaten Zee at his to , Jacob see former Reb them ecca ' s grand househol 's transported Dutch -daug , d ancestor hter gods so in , looked , many white who ,

    . perfect linen cap keep , and ing skirts with the cut scene short as and she full moves , Dutch throug fashion h it , , kind is in

    looking press , presentl , plump , y and passing comel out y , now into reaching the kitchen out linen beyond from , then the

    coming of oatcake agai p n iled and on again delf-ware into , the of honey warm , li cheese ght , her , and hands flowing full

    inilk-bowls . knitting Everything , went was to the read win y dow at last . A , and chill Rebecca grey morning , taking she up looked her

    out upon ; the wind sending long moans through the churchyard Still , firs there _; had the sea been tossing a decided heavil lul y l , throug though h the the storm mist was beyond now .

    rising again , and , from this _, past experience taught Rebecca to

    262 Weather-Bound.

    262 WEATHER-BOUND .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1863, page 262, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121863/page/46/