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Table of Contents
Book Club Associates
CHAPTER ONE
CHAPTER TWO
CHAPTER FOUR
CHAPTER FIVE
CHAPTER SIX
CHAPTER SEVEN
CHAPTER EIGHT
CHAPTER NINE
CHAPTER TEN
CHAPTER ELEVEN
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
CHAPTER FOURTEEN’
BOOK TWO
CHAPTER TWO
CHAPTER THREE
CHAPTER FOUR
CHAPTER FIVE
CHAPTER SIX
CHAPTER SEVEN
CHAPTER EIGHT
CHAPTER NINE
CHAPTER TEN
BOOK THREE
CHAPTER TWO
CHAPTER THREE
CHAPTER FOUR
CHAPTER FIVE
CHAPTER SIX
CHAPTER SEVEN
CHAPTER EIGHT
CHAPTER NINE
CHAPTER TEN
Poldark Book 6
 
The Four Swans
A Novel of Cornwall 1795-1797
 
Winston Graham
 
William Collins Sons & Co Ltd
London • Glasgow • Sydney • Auckland
Toronto, • Johannesburg
This edition published 1977 by
Book Club Associates
by arrangement with
William Collins Sons & Co Ltd
First published 1976
Š Winston Graham 1976
Printed in Great Britain by
Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press), Ltd.,
Bungay, Suffolk
NOTE
 
Just for the record, and to reassure the cynics, perhaps I should mention that this novel was half written when the television production of the first four Poldark novels was mooted. I have taken some liberty with the dates at which the Truro elections took place, but the events’ as here recorded are otherwise very much as they actually happened.
The date of the Camborne riots differs from fact by a year.
 
W.G.
CHAPTER ONE
Daniel Behenna, physician and surgeon, was forty years old and lived in a square, detached, untidy house in Goodwives Lane, Truro. He was himself square in build and detached in manner, but not at all unkempt, since the citizens of the town and district paid well for the benefit of his modern physical knowledge. He had married early, and then again a second time, but both his wives had died, and he and his two young daughters were now looked after by a Mrs Childs, who lived in. His assistant, Mr Arthur, slept over the stables.
Behenna had been in Truro only five years, having come direct from London where he had not only established a reputation as a practitioner but had written and published a monograph amending Smellie’s famous Treatise on Midwifery and since his arrival he had much impressed the wealthier provincials with his authority and skill.
In particular, authority. When men were ill they did not want the pragmatical approach: of a Dwight Enys, who used his eyes and saw how often his remedies failed, and therefore was tentative in his decisions. They did not want someone who came in and sat and talked pleasantly and had an unassuming word for the children, even a pat for the dog ............

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