A Man of the Moors
MAN OF THE MOORS
HALLIWELL SUTCLIFFE
AUTHOR OF THE ELEVENTH COMMANDMENT, A TRAGEDY IN GREY, ETC.
LONDON KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH, TRÜBNER & CO., Lt d . PATERNOSTER HOUSE, CHARING CROSS ROAD 1897
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A MAN OF THE MOORS.
Joe Strangeways the husband was called; and if roughness could make any man a diamond, then he was emphatically of the purest water. But, apart from his roughness, the untrained eye could detect few good qualities in him; his wife had searched, with tears and prayer, for any redeeming point in his character, and now, at the end of five years, she found herself further than ever from the goal. A harsh man he was, indifferent when not jealous, callous when not actively cruel: his speech was coarse, his voice harsh and raucous, and he was in a perpetual state of growing a beard—a thick, black scrub, as rough as his uncouth tongue. Once a week he got very drunk, and his wife, before she learned to know the signs of the times and to prepare herself accordingly, was apt to suffer physical discomfort.
Halliwell Sutcliffe
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A MAN OF THE MOORS
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I. THE MOOR MAN COMES BACK TO HIS OWN.
CHAPTER II. THE PERVERSION OF GABRIEL HIRST.
CHAPTER III. A MOOR WOMAN.
CHAPTER IV. AT THE SIGN OF THE DOG AND GROUSE.
CHAPTER V. CONCERNING PARSLEY AND STRONG DRINK.
CHAPTER VI. THE RISING WIND.
CHAPTER VII. 'TWIXT WYNYATES AND LING CRAG.
CHAPTER VIII. KATE STRANGEWAYS ASSERTS HERSELF.
CHAPTER IX. CONFESSION.
CHAPTER X. THE WOMAN OF SORROWSTONES SPRING.
CHAPTER XI. THE GHOST OF WYNYATES.
CHAPTER XII. RELEASE.
CHAPTER XIII. A MOONLIGHT INTRODUCTION.
CHAPTER XIV. FRENDER'S FOLLY.
CHAPTER XV. A HOME-COMING.
CHAPTER XVI. RODDICK'S WIFE.
CHAPTER XVII. IN WHICH MRS. LOMAX GROWS ANGRY.
CHAPTER XVIII. THE CUTTING OF PEATS.
CHAPTER XIX. THE LINK THAT BINDETH MAN AND WIFE.
CHAPTER XX. THE FIGHT AT THE QUARRY EDGE.
CHAPTER XXI. AFTERWARDS.
CHAPTER XXII. WHITE HEATHER.
CHAPTER XXIII. A "REVIVAL."
CHAPTER XXIV. A TALE FROM THE HEART OF THE NIGHT.
CHAPTER XXV. THE BEGINNING OF THE RIFT.
CHAPTER XXVI. HOW THEY FOUGHT ROUND THE PEAT-RICK.
CHAPTER XXVII. THE RIFT GAPES WIDE.
CHAPTER XXVIII. JANET.
CHAPTER XXIX. WHAT THE SNOWFLAKES FELL UPON.
CHAPTER XXX. BY WAY OF WYNYATES.
CHAPTER XXXI. THE MOOR MAN GOES OUT TO HIS OWN.
