The PirateCaxton, 1897 - 404 páginas The Pirate is set in a remote part of Shetland, where Basil Mertoun lives as a tenant of Magnus Troil. In his youth, Mertoun has been betrayed by a faithless wife, and in a spirit of vengeance, turned to piracy. Filled with remorse for his crimes, he lives as a recluse, along with his wife's son Mordaunt, whose paternity is doubtful. |
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Walter Scott. " My good friend , " replied Mertoun , " if you could have named a circumstance which would render the residence more eligible to me than any other , it is that there would be neither human luxury nor human society near the ...
Walter Scott. " My good friend , " replied Mertoun , " if you could have named a circumstance which would render the residence more eligible to me than any other , it is that there would be neither human luxury nor human society near the ...
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... replied Mertoun . " " " You will hear nothing but the clanging and screaming of scarts , sheer - waters , and sea - gulls , from daybreak till sunset . " I will compound , my friend , " replied the stranger , " so that I do not hear the ...
... replied Mertoun . " " " You will hear nothing but the clanging and screaming of scarts , sheer - waters , and sea - gulls , from daybreak till sunset . " I will compound , my friend , " replied the stranger , " so that I do not hear the ...
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... replied Barbara ; " ye wad not have me waste our substance on every thigger or sorner that has the luck to come by the door in a wet day ? But this lad has a fair and a wide name in the country , and Tronda says he is to be married to a ...
... replied Barbara ; " ye wad not have me waste our substance on every thigger or sorner that has the luck to come by the door in a wet day ? But this lad has a fair and a wide name in the country , and Tronda says he is to be married to a ...
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... replied Mordaunt . " Trust me , the world has few grander sensations than when one is perched in mid - air between a high - browed cliff and a roaring ocean , the rope by which you are sustained seeming scarce stronger than a silken ...
... replied Mordaunt . " Trust me , the world has few grander sensations than when one is perched in mid - air between a high - browed cliff and a roaring ocean , the rope by which you are sustained seeming scarce stronger than a silken ...
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... replied Mordaunt ; " I know not your motive for desiring me to remove , and I will not leave , upon these dark threats , the house in which I have been kindly received in such a tempest as this . If the owners are unaccustomed to our ...
... replied Mordaunt ; " I know not your motive for desiring me to remove , and I will not leave , upon these dark threats , the house in which I have been kindly received in such a tempest as this . If the owners are unaccustomed to our ...
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