Mountain Split Over Raccoon Hollow Feeds Dorinda Hope
Ezekiel Sykes returns battered and hungry to a valley shattered by a mountain split. Dorinda tends his wounds while their bond deepens as a storm and hardship test faith. A Falls excursion brings charity and a silver gift, and Captain Moore offers Dorinda a future beyond the ridge.
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Ezelsiel
Ezekiel
Dorinda
Betsey
Sykes
Captain Moore
Ezekiel Sykes
Ezekiel Sykes confronts a mica vein and a stranger
In a dusty mining scene Dorinda and Ezekiel clash with a stranger over a mica seam near a quartz vein. The man, questioned about ownership by Mrs Sykes, pursues the vein while Ezekiel mutters under his breath as Dorinda waves to the departing visitor.
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Ezekiel
Thetar
Ezekiel Sykes
Dorinda
Rcom
Zeke
Zelzer
Zelke
Ever
Anon
D'rindy
Sykes
Ezekiel Obadiah Sykes
Ani
Natur
Sal Boler
Fragmentary Dialect Scene With Laughing Miner
A rough spoken traveler Ezekiel Sykes roams toward Raccoon Hollow. On nearing a house he mutters about binders and hogs, then eyes Sinking Mountain and recalls a possible prior encounter, ending with a playful accusation.
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Ezekiel Sykes
Raccoon Hollow
Night Before the Wedding and a Stolen Sum
James Mayfield recounts the night before his marriage to Kate as the Strangway firm loses £293 in cash and a paper notebook with note numbers vanishes. Gravity, the trusted traveler, is suspected. the money and record seem irretrievably gone, threatening Mayfield’s impending marriage and his future stake in the firm.
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James Mayfield
Kate
Strangway, Mayfield & Co
Strangway & Co
Broad Street
Stephen Gravity
Gravity
Mayfield
Broadwood
Hoxton
Clapham
Bread Street
Cheapside
Gravily
Mary
Strangway
Mr. Strangway
The Lake Leman Holiday Dream by Clara Grant Dunn
A poem recalling a holiday by a lake in pine woods with friends in Geneva. The speaker contrasts idyllic scenes by the lake with the impending return to London and to labor, cherishing enduring friendship and shared dreams. The verse blends nature's beauty with aspirations for a brighter world and the ache of parting.
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Inbor
Bealde
Geneva
Clara Grant Duiin
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