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100	1		_aRowland, Henry C. _q(Henry Cottrell), _d1874-1933
245	1	4	_aThe magnet
264		1	_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2025
300			_a1 online resource : _bmultiple file formats
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aPublished serially as "The pilot-fish".
500			_aRelease date is 2025-06-14
508			_aAl Haines
520			_a"The magnet: A romance" by Henry C. Rowland is a novel written in the early 20th century. Set aboard a Maine-anchored schooner-yacht, it centers on retired Captain Bell, his three daughters—Cécile, Paula, and Hermione—and their steadfast sailing-master, Christian Heldstrom, whose floating household is shadowed by an eccentric poet, Harold Applebo, in a yawl he trails like a “pilot-fish.” Flirtation, pride, and sudden tests of character entwine as the sisters draw suitors and the poet’s odd chivalry stirs both annoyance and curiosity. The opening of the story introduces the yacht Shark at Shoal Harbour and sketches the family: choleric gourmand Captain Bell, disciplined “Uncle Chris” Heldstrom, coquettish Cécile, gentle Paula, and fiery Hermione. Huntington Wood, an old suitor, visits as the crew watches for the “Pilot-fish,” Applebo, who arrives in his yawl Daffodil; Bell recounts the poet’s whimsical resolve to follow them so he needn’t choose his own course. Wood learns Applebo is secretly devoted to a lady aboard, while Paula and Cécile trade impressions of the odd celebrity; a farcical failed vol-au-vent spurs Bell to vow a chase to shake the pursuer. At dawn, Hermione’s illicit shore shoot ends in a confrontation with a game-warden until Applebo intervenes, after which a prickly, revealing exchange shows his disdain for her poaching, his abstract approach to love, and a startling reaction to Heldstrom’s name, hinting at deeper ties as the excerpt breaks off. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534			_pOriginally published: _cNew York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1910
653			_aCourtship -- Fiction
653			_aMistaken identity -- Fiction
653			_aYachts -- Fiction
700	1		_aUnderwood, Clarence F., _d1871-1929
856	4		_uhttps://archive.org/details/magnetromance00rowluoft
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76293
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