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In
her
life
ever
after
she
would
have
nightmares
of
her
time
in
that
hold
,
and
she
would
wake
up
screaming
with
the
taste
and
stench
of
the
place
in
her
throat
.
The
Sea
-
Maiden
landed
at
Norfolk
in
Virginia
,
and
Essie
’
s
indenture
was
bought
by
a
"
small
planter
,
"
a
tobacco
farmer
named
John
Richardson
,
for
his
wife
had
died
of
the
childbirth
fever
a
week
after
giving
birth
to
his
daughter
,
and
he
had
need
of
a
wet
nurse
and
a
maid
of
all
work
upon
his
smallholding
.
So
Essie
’
s
baby
boy
,
whom
she
called
Anthony
,
after
,
she
said
,
her
late
husband
his
father
(
knowing
there
was
none
there
to
contradict
her
,
and
perhaps
she
had
known
an
Anthony
once
)
,
sucked
at
Essie
’
s
breast
alongside
of
Phyllida
Richardson
,
and
her
employer
’
s
child
always
got
first
suck
,
so
she
grew
into
a
healthy
child
,
tall
and
strong
,
while
Essie
’
s
son
grew
weak
and
rickety
on
what
was
left
.
And
along
with
the
milk
,
the
children
as
they
grew
drank
Essie
’
s
tales
:
of
the
knockers
and
the
blue
-
caps
who
live
down
the
mines
;
of
the
Bucca
,
the
trickiest
spirit
of
the
land
,
much
more
dangerous
than
the
redheaded
,
snub
-
nosed
piskies
,
for
whom
the
first
fish
of
the
catch
was
always
left
upon
the
shingle
,
and
for
whom
a
fresh
-
baked
loaf
of
bread
was
left
in
the
field
,
at
reaping
time
,
to
ensure
a
fine
harvest
;
she
told
them
of
the
apple
-
tree
men
-
old
apple
trees
who
talked
when
they
had
a
mind
,
and
who
needed
to
be
placated
with
the
first
cider
of
the
crop
,
which
was
poured
onto
their
roots
as
the
year
turned
,
if
they
were
to
give
you
a
fine
crop
for
the
next
year
.
She
told
them
,
in
her
mellifluous
Cornish
drawl
,
which
trees
they
should
be
wary
of
,
in
the
old
rhyme
:
Elm
,
he
do
brood
And
oak
,
he
do
hate
,
But
the
willow
-
man
goes
walking
,
If
you
stays
out
late
.
She
told
them
all
these
things
,
and
they
believed
,
because
she
believed
.
The
farm
prospered
,
and
Essie
Tregowan
placed
a
china
saucer
of
milk
outside
the
back
door
,
each
night
,
for
the
piskies
.
And
after
eight
months
John
Richardson
came
a
-
knocking
quietly
on
Essie
’
s
bedroom
door
,
and
asked
her
for
favors
of
the
kind
a
woman
shows
a
man
,
and
Essie
told
him
how
shocked
and
hurt
she
was
,
a
poor
widow
woman
,
and
an
indentured
servant
no
better
than
a
slave
,
to
be
asked
to
prostitute
herself
for
a
man
whom
she
had
had
so
much
respect
for
-
and
an
indentured
servant
could
not
marry
,
so
how
he
could
even
think
to
torment
an
indentured
transportee
girl
so
she
could
not
bring
herself
to
think
-
and
her
nut
-
brown
eyes
filled
with
tears
,
such
that
Richardson
found
himself
apologizing
to
her
,
and
the
upshot
of
it
was
that
John
Richardson
wound
up
,
in
that
corridor
,
of
that
hot
summer
’
s
night
,
going
down
on
one
knee
to
Essie
Tregowan
and
proposing
an
end
to
her
indenture
and
offering
his
hand
in
marriage
.
Now
,
although
she
accepted
him
,
she
would
not
sleep
a
night
with
him
until
it
was
legal
,
whereupon
she
moved
from
the
little
room
in
the
attic
to
the
master
bedroom
in
the
front
of
the
house
;
and
if
some
of
Farmer
Richardson
’
s
friends
and
their
wives
cut
him
when
next
they
saw
him
in
town
,
many
more
of
them
were
of
the
opinion
that
the
new
Mistress
Richardson
was
a
damn
fine
-
looking
woman
,
and
that
Johnnie
Richardson
had
done
quite
well
for
himself
.
