Robert Elsmere
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You are Catherine Leyburn, eldest sister and the practical center of your widowed mother's Westmoreland household, back from a sickbed visit when Rose asks whether duty leaves room for anyone's ambition. At Mrs Thornburgh's tea you meet Robert Elsmere, a young clergyman recovering from fever, whose seriousness about a dying woman in the valley sets him apart from guests treating her illness as a fireside story. He walks your family home that night, and later asks to escort you as far as his own gate before you go on alone.
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- The Guest beyond High FellLong Whindale, Westmoreland