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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... sister , though perhaps that which Minna did excite , might be of a more intense as well as a more reverential character . The dispositions of these lovely sisters were not less different than their complexions . In the kindly ...
... sister , though perhaps that which Minna did excite , might be of a more intense as well as a more reverential character . The dispositions of these lovely sisters were not less different than their complexions . In the kindly ...
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... sister was not more generally beloved than the more retired and pensive Minna . Indeed , the two lovely sisters were not only the delight of their friends , but the pride of those islands , where the inhabi- tants of a certain rank were ...
... sister was not more generally beloved than the more retired and pensive Minna . Indeed , the two lovely sisters were not only the delight of their friends , but the pride of those islands , where the inhabi- tants of a certain rank were ...
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... sisters . From his boyhood , as we have noticed , he had been a frequent inmate of the residence of Magnus at Burgh - Westra , although it lay nearly twenty miles distant from Jarlshof . The impassable cha- racter of the country betwixt ...
... sisters . From his boyhood , as we have noticed , he had been a frequent inmate of the residence of Magnus at Burgh - Westra , although it lay nearly twenty miles distant from Jarlshof . The impassable cha- racter of the country betwixt ...
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... sister . In short , so little did he seem to attach himself to either damsel exclusively , that he was sometimes heard to say , that Minna never looked so lovely as when her light - hearted sister had induced her , for the time , to ...
... sister . In short , so little did he seem to attach himself to either damsel exclusively , that he was sometimes heard to say , that Minna never looked so lovely as when her light - hearted sister had induced her , for the time , to ...
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... sister to the then existing , Clinkscale of that Ilk . This was thought a horrid and unnatural union in the neigh- bourhood , considering that the house of Clinkscale had at least as great a share of Scottish pride as of Scottish ...
... sister to the then existing , Clinkscale of that Ilk . This was thought a horrid and unnatural union in the neigh- bourhood , considering that the house of Clinkscale had at least as great a share of Scottish pride as of Scottish ...
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