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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... wild scheme enough ; but you , who are from another country , whether English , Scotch , or Irish , no one can tell- " " " Nor does it greatly matter , " said Mertoun , somewhat abruptly . " Not a herring's scale , " answered the Laird ...
... wild scheme enough ; but you , who are from another country , whether English , Scotch , or Irish , no one can tell- " " " Nor does it greatly matter , " said Mertoun , somewhat abruptly . " Not a herring's scale , " answered the Laird ...
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... wild one - Come from where you will , I warrant you will say , like other travellers , you came from a better climate than ours , for so say you all . And yet you think of a retreat which the very natives run away from . Will you not ...
... wild one - Come from where you will , I warrant you will say , like other travellers , you came from a better climate than ours , for so say you all . And yet you think of a retreat which the very natives run away from . Will you not ...
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... wild and desolate a situation necessarily imposed on its inhabitant . CHAPTER II " Tis not alone the scene - 1 -the man , Anselmo , The man finds sympathies in these wild wastes , And roughly tumbling seas , which fairer views And ...
... wild and desolate a situation necessarily imposed on its inhabitant . CHAPTER II " Tis not alone the scene - 1 -the man , Anselmo , The man finds sympathies in these wild wastes , And roughly tumbling seas , which fairer views And ...
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... wild poems , which , half recited , half chanted by voices as hoarse , if not so loud , as the waves over which they floated , pointed out the very bay on which they sailed as the scene of a bloody sea - fight ; the scarce- seen heap of ...
... wild poems , which , half recited , half chanted by voices as hoarse , if not so loud , as the waves over which they floated , pointed out the very bay on which they sailed as the scene of a bloody sea - fight ; the scarce- seen heap of ...
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... wild tales and rude exercises which we have already mentioned . The season of winter , when , from the shortness of the daylight , labour becomes impossible , is in Zetland the time of revel , feast- ing , and merriment . Whatever the ...
... wild tales and rude exercises which we have already mentioned . The season of winter , when , from the shortness of the daylight , labour becomes impossible , is in Zetland the time of revel , feast- ing , and merriment . Whatever the ...
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