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The Vicar of Morwenstow: A Life of Robert Stephen Hawker, M.A.

By Sabine Baring-Gould.

London: King, 1876; New York: T. Whittaker, 1876.


Chapter X. The First Mrs. Hawker.--Her Influence over her Husband.--Anxiety about her Health.--His Fits of Depression.--Letter on the Death of Sir Thomas D. Acland.--Reads Novels to his Wife.--His Visions.--Mysticism.--Death of his Wife.--Unhappy Condition.--Burning of his Papers.--Meets with his Second Wife.--The Unburied Dead.--Birth of his Child.--Ruinous Condition of his Church.--Goes to London.--Sickness.--Goes to Boscastle.--To Plymouth.--His Death and Funeral.--Conclusion.

 


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