Sylvia's Lovers — Complete
1863
In the coastal town of Monkshaven, 1790s England, Sylvia Robson dreams only of a new cloak and the return of the whalers. But when Charley Kinraid, the dashing harpooner who has captured her heart, is seized by the press-gang, her world cracks open. Her devoted cousin Philip Hepburn has loved her silently for years, and in a moment of desperate cunning, he chooses not to tell her the truth that might have saved Charley. This betrayal will echo across years, as Sylvia discovers what it means to live with the consequences of another's choice, and what the heart truly owes to those who claim to love it. Gaskell paints the whaling community with gritty authenticity, capturing the rhythms of a town where men's lives are spent against the ice for profit, and where war's machinery grinds up the young. This is a novel about the costs of deception, the weight of silence, and the terrible mathematics of love when society leaves women with so few moves of their own.
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“... that kind of patriotism which consists in hating all other nations ...””
— Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
“Daniel was very like a child in all the parts of his character. He was strongly affected by whatever was present, and apt to forget the absent. He acted on impulse, and too often had reason to be sorry for it; but he hated his sorrow too much to let it teach him wisdom for the future.””
— Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
“The morning brought more peace if it did not entirely dissipate fear.””
— Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
“Ay! but mother's words are scarce, and weigh heavy. Father's liker me, and we talk a deal o' rubble; but mother's words are liker to hewn stone. She puts a deal o' meaning in 'em.””
— Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
“All the morning since he got up he had been trying to fight through his duties”
— Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
“But between the busy heads and over-reaching arms he could see Charley and Sylvia, sitting close together, talking and listening more than eating. She was in a new strange state of happiness not to be reasoned about, or accounted for, but in a state of more exquisite feeling than she had ever experienced before;””
— Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
“in St Jean d'Acre;””
— Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
“Fancy is three parts o' love.””
— Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
“La atracción son tres cuartas partes del amor.””
— Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
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