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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1922 Excerpt: ... Chapter XXXVI. Last Will and Testament TVY uncle's lips had smiled before he died, lying upon the black flag, by the death's head, among the scattered gems. It was a bitter piece of irony--well might his lips have smiled for it--that he laid hands upon the treasure only the. morning of his death. For the lust of the treasure all his gifts of mind and body had been spent in vain; surely this treasure--this ill-gotten treasure--had corrupted his whole life, worked as a disorder in his blood; turned his mind to infamy and black plots against his kin, and steeled his heart to desperate purpose. He had wit as he had courage; he might have served well his King and country, and won fame and riches honorably. He had but attained his forty-fifth year; he lay there dead--his lifeblood spilled among the gems, staining the fell design in silver upon his father's flag. "We rode from the Stone House--my father, Mr. Bradbury, and I--leaving Sir Gavin and his folk to bring away my uncle's body, and to march the rogues--Martin and Bart and big; Nick Barwise--off to the county jail. But though Sir Gavin stormed and blustered, Mr. Bradbury had his way with him, that Thrale and Mistress Barwise and her man should be left free to go whither they would--so long as never again they came nigh Craike House. Mr. Bradbury would have none of these old rogues laid by the heels, and the scandal of Rogues' Haven, its master and its old servitors, noised through the kingdom. So these three were left to go their way with Mother Mag, when she should come tottering home. What chanced to them I know not to this day, for I was never to set eyes upon them more. Long ere I pen these words all those old rogues, who served my grandfather afloat and ashore, must surely have followed him underground...
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- VerlagGeneral Books LLC
- Erscheinungsdatum2012
- ISBN 10 1150835753
- ISBN 13 9781150835759
- EinbandTapa blanda
- Anzahl der Seiten52
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