Tadiana ✩Night Owl☽’s Reviews > Ross Poldark > Status Update

Tom Carne met his daughter's eyes defiantly. "When you left me, I was in the darkness and the shadow o' death. I was the servant o' the devil and was iniquitous and a drunkard. Last year I was convinced o' sin under Mr. Dimmick. Now I am a noo man altogether."

"Oh," said Demelza. So the Widow Chegwidden had been successful after all. She had underrated the Widow Chegwidden.

... the word one would instinctively choose to describe him was "sober." Yet sober was the last thing he had once been, if one merely accepted his own confession. He had the reputation, Ross knew, for being a driver aboard his ship; and in the deliberate self-control, the self-containment of all his movements, one caught the echo of past struggles and guessed the measure of the victory won.

She was a very quick learner and something of a mimic, so that she began to add words to her vocabulary and to know how to pronounce them. She also began to lose some. Ross had consulted Prudie--always a flattering way of approach--and Prudie, who could outswear a trooper when she chose, found herself committed to the reduction of Demelza's curse words.