The Four Swans (Poldark)
Winston Graham
Language: English
Pages: 592
ISBN: 0330463349
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Cornwall, 1795 -1799: although Ross Poldark, now something of a war hero, seems secure in his hard-won prosperity, a new dilemma faces him in the sudden infatuation of a young naval officer for his wife Demelza. All four women—the four swans—whose lives touch Ross’s face a crisis in these years. For his wife Demelza, his old love Elizabeth, for his friend’s new wife Caroline, and for the unhappy Morwenna Chynoweth, these are times of stress and conflict.
Table of Contents Book Club Associates CHAPTER ONE CHAPTER TWO CHAPTER FOUR CHAPTER FIVE CHAPTER SIX CHAPTER SEVEN CHAPTER EIGHT CHAPTER NINE CHAPTER TEN CHAPTER ELEVEN CHAPTER THIRTEEN CHAPTER FOURTEEN’ BOOK TWO CHAPTER TWO CHAPTER THREE CHAPTER FOUR CHAPTER FIVE CHAPTER SIX CHAPTER SEVEN CHAPTER EIGHT CHAPTER NINE CHAPTER TEN BOOK THREE CHAPTER TWO CHAPTER THREE CHAPTER FOUR CHAPTER FIVE CHAPTER SIX CHAPTER SEVEN CHAPTER EIGHT CHAPTER NINE CHAPTER TEN Poldark Book 6 The Four Swans A Novel
that had haunted his bedside would begin to melt away. `You would keep everything else secret?’ `Of course … It would be greatly to my advantage to say nothing of what has happened here.’ `So … if this much you have planned in your little head, Rowella, have you also planned the rest?’ `The rest? What do you mean?’ `Well, how you would go about it?’ `I could do nothing, make no real plan until I had your approval. But - but if I have that if I have that I shall see Mr Solway in the library
they must spend at least a couple of days in their town house before setting out for London. He was right. He called at the house the following morning and found Elizabeth in. He gave his name to the scullery maid at the back door and then to the footman who presently appeared with a stony hostile face and tried to stare him down. Drake simply asked if he might see Mrs Warleggan, and would not state his, business. He guessed, that they could hardly turn him away without reference to her, and
ring to adjudicate and see fair play. As the contenders came to shake hands it could be seen that Sam was a good three inches the taller of the two, but Harry was massively broad across the shoulders with matching legs and buttocks. It was not necessarily an advantage to be tall in such a contest. Tholly blew his whistle; it was one he had had for years, given him, he always said, by a dying bo’sun on one of the frigates on which he had first sailed; as a measure of the bo’sun’s esteem. In fact
was asking Morwenna about Rowella,’ Elizabeth said to Ossie. `Whether you had seen anything of her and if she is well?’ `Nothing,’ said Mr Whitworth noisily. `Nothing at all. For us it is as if she had never existed.’ ‘Forgive me, Ossie, but isn’t that rather a harsh judgement on so young a girl for merely having; married so much beneath her? She married precipitately - but for love, I presume?’ ‘I have no notion,’ said Mr Whitworth. `No notion whatever! Nor do I wish to think, of it.’ The