Demelza tries to organise a reunion between Verity and Captain Blamey.
Low copper prices from the smelting companies force the mine owners to secretly organise their own smelting company with Ross in charge. George Warleggan buys shares in Ross's mine. Demelza gives birth to a girl, Julia Grace. Ross's good friend, Dr Dwight Enys, arrives to study lung disease in miners. Copper is finally discovered in Ross's mine, and Demelza announces to Ross she is pregnant Ross finally tells her he loves her.Įarly to Mid 1788. The occasion, initially strained, is spoiled by the arrival of the uninvited Warleggans. Verity, still pining for Captain Blamey, comes to stay and teaches Demelza the finer points of society, so that she is able to make a good impression when she and Ross are invited for Christmas to Francis and Elizabeth's home. On his deathbed, he asks Ross to look after his family, realising that Francis is not cut out for business. Ross's paternal uncle, Charles Poldark, has a heart attack during the Christening of his grandson. The gentry and locals are shocked by Ross and Demelza's marriage his judgment is questioned when he seeks more financing from his shareholders for his mine. Feeling she is in an impossible position, Demelza decides to return to her family, but Ross goes after her, and they marry with only Jud and Prudie in attendance. Rumours circulate as to Ross and Demelza's relationship, and her father Tom Carne, now a reformed character, demands that she return home. Young employee Jim Carter, whom Ross helped when Jim's girlfriend was pregnant, continues to poach pheasants after they are married and is caught red-handed his punishment is transportation, and Ross's pleas for leniency result in two years' imprisonment despite Jim and Ross's hopes for acquittal. Elizabeth bears a baby son, Geoffrey Charles, but her relationship with her husband deteriorates. Ross opens his mine and the search begins for a vein of copper. When Francis is wounded, Elizabeth announces to Ross that she is pregnant with Francis' child.Įarly 1785 to Early 1787. Ross assists her to meet Blamey in secret, against her father Charles' wishes, leading to a duel between Francis and Blamey. At a dance, Ross's spinster cousin, Verity, falls in love with disgraced sea captain, Captain Andrew Blamey, who is falsely accused of murdering his wife. Ross manages to obtain financing for his mine from other businessmen. Ross hopes to go into business with Francis to reopen a mine, but Francis declines after tensions between him, his wife Elizabeth, and Ross are fanned by business rival George Warleggan. Bailiffs are closing mines, putting hundreds out of work. Ross's uncle tries to persuade him to leave Cornwall Ross becomes more determined to stay and work his inheritance. Demelza has left home after being beaten by her father. He goes to market to sell some of his family possessions and comes across an urchin, Demelza Carne, being attacked by ruffians who want to steal her dog to use it in a dog fight. Ross goes to his own home, Nampara, and wakes the servants Prudie and Jud. He calls at Trenwith, his uncle Charles' home, to discover his inheritance in ruins and his sweetheart Elizabeth betrothed to another - his cousin Francis Poldark.
Two years after being injured in fighting in Virginia in 1781, Ross Vennor Poldark, a British veteran of the American War of Independence, returns home to Cornwall in October 1783 to discover his father Joshua had died six months past.
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