Master of the Mine Chapter 1 excerpt in Cornwall
Hugh Trelawney, a lonely London boy, meets Madeline Graham at a seaside boarding school near Southampton. She captivates him before leaving for distant lands. Years later, after his father’s death, he travels to St Garretts with John Rudd to live with relatives in Cornwall.
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Munster
Southampton
Hugh Trelawney
Madeline Graham
Munster’s
Madeline
Farelize
Hhis Coffa
America
Hugh
Mrs. Munster
Munston
Annie Pendragon
John Rudd
St. Garrett’s
Rudd
No Sense of Proportion
A young artist insists his uncle should keep funding his art despite years of little progress. The uncle counters that concentrating all efforts is foolish, likening it to placing many baskets around one bantam egg and urging a safer path.
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Charlie
Extra Session for Grace Our Literary Coterie
A quirky exchange notes the group plans two weekly meetings one to read and one to discuss. The dialogue hints at internal rules and titles while odd garbled text follows. Timber wolves are increasing around Rat Portage.
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Grace
George
Rat Portage
The Cloud and Vessel of Life Endowment
A meditation on human life as a vapor and vessel, urging effort under pressure to fulfill true ideals. It links biblical parables about opportunity to real self-discovery and harmony of moral, intellectual, and spiritual elements with God as life’s source.
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Oppertu
Jesus
Could You Pray? A Train Tragedy in Hebron
An eleven year old boy attempting to board a Chicago bound train at Hebron falls after his hold fails. Rescue pulls him free, but he is badly injured and begs his mother to pray. His mother, unable to pray, cannot help as he dies on the platform. The narrator recalls learning to pray afterward and to intercede for prayerless families.
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Usl
Munster
Annie
Mr. Rudd
Chicago
Tran
Hebron
Frank
Blind woman gives lamp money to mission in Paris
A blind woman at a missionary meeting explains she can afford to give twenty francs by recounting how much oil her fellow workers spend on lamps. She notes she saves by not needing a lamp and donates the yearly saving to illuminate dark heathen lands.
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Paris
Lind
France
Detroit News-Tribune
Moral Constitution and Noble Living Teachings
Rev. William C. Burnsman urges forming a moral constitution by reading worthy books, performing noble deeds, and associating with pure people. He maintains that walking in the spirit prevents fleshly lusts and guides behavior.
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William C. Btinsman
Beneficent Power Quote by Cardinal Gibbons
A Cardinal James Gibbons quote urges that all people, no matter their insignificance, can wield beneficent influence over human passions and spread calm and domestic order in their surroundings.
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Cardinal James Gibbons
A Stronger Assurance
A fragmentary reflection on inner faith as stronger than visions of fortune and external happiness. The speaker imagines happiness from luck, yet finds true contentment in sanctity and love guiding the heart.
Fragmentary line on virtue and life in heedless death
A fragmented text discusses virtue's quality and amount guiding a person’s life unless they sink into lethargy and death, raising questions about moral action and vitality in a peculiar life.
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Ian
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Robert Buchanan
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Jord
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Beret
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Warses
Missus Pendragon
St. Garrett
Mr. Rodar
Isa
Martha
Missus
Mrs. Pen; Gragon
John
Ore
Maer
Adam MacDonald Redch
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