Catharine Furze

Catharine Furze, by Mark Rutherford
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Title: Catharine Furze
Author: Mark Rutherford
Release Date: March 12, 2006 Language: English
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Transcribed from the 1913 Hodder and Stoughton edition by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk
CATHARINE FURZE
CHAPTER I
It was a bright, hot, August Saturday in the market town of Eastthorpe, in the eastern Midlands, in the year 1840. Eastthorpe lay about five miles on the western side of the Fens, in a very level country on the banks of a river, broad and deep, but with only just sufficient fall to enable its long-lingering waters to reach the sea. It was an ancient market town, with a six-arched stone bridge, and with a High Street from which three or four smaller and narrower streets connected by courts and alleys diverged at right angles. In the middle of the town was the church, an immense building, big enough to hold half Eastthorpe,
and celebrated for its beautiful spire and its peal of eight bells. Round the church lay the churchyard, fringed with huge elms, and in the Abbey Close, as it was ...