About this story
A polling-day riot and a constable's death put you in the dock. The Bycliffe papers then make Esther, the minister's daughter, lawful heiress of Transome Court, an estate she renounces in four signed copies. Forty-five chapters carry a burned label to a chapel wedding and a small house over the workshop.
How it opens
September heat held Treby Magna between new mine smoke and fields already turning toward harvest.
Your mother's parlour displayed medicine bottles beneath testimonials browned by years of sunlight.
Mrs HoltFelix, customers still ask for the elixir, and good words cannot replace its income.
Mrs HoltYour father left those remedies to keep us, not to satisfy a son's new conscience.
Choose
The pills can injure people, and I will not sell doubt as a cure.
I can repair watches and teach enough pupils to support us honestly.