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Mahala Tringlos gathered seaweed in a cove on the coast
of Cornwall, and supported her aged and crippled grandfather by selling it as
fertilizer. She lived a desolate life of the hardest physical labor, hewing a
poor path down the cliff side, and harnessing herself like an animal to drag
back the heavy weed. The son of a neighboring farmer trenched on her preserves,
and with his greater strength and the aid of a pony was able to scoff at the
amount of her daily harvest. Mahala was wildly angry and declared that she
hoped he would drown. Working one day near her, he fell into a whirlpool from
which she rescued him at the risk of her own life. His peril aroused in her the
first tenderness she had ever known and, her anger having disappeared, she
found that she loved him.
GEROULD,
WINIFRED GREGORY;
A GUIDE TO TROLLOPE.
© 1948 Princeton University Press,
1976 renewed PUP
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