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GOOD NIGHT TO THE SEASON.
Thus runs the world away.--HAMLET.
Good-night to the Season! 'tis over!
Gay dwellings no longer are gay;
The courtier, the gambler, the lover,
Are scatter'd, like swallows, away:
There's nobody left to invite one,
Ex... | The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 10, No. 269, August 18, 1827 | Various | ['en'] | 16 | {'Popular literature -- Great Britain -- Periodicals'} | PG10074 | |||
Good-night to the Season!--the splendour
That beam'd in the Spanish Bazaar,
Where I purchased--my heart was so tender--
A card-case,--a pasteboard guitar,--
A bottle of perfume,--a girdle,--
A lithograph'd Riego full-grown,
Whom Bigotry drew on a hurdle,
That artists might draw ... | The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 10, No. 269, August 18, 1827 | Various | ['en'] | 16 | {'Popular literature -- Great Britain -- Periodicals'} | PG10074 | |||
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RUNNING A MUCK.
The inhabitants of the Indian Archipelago, and particularly of the
island of Java, are of a very sullen and revengeful disposition. When
they consider themselves grossly insulted, they are observed to become
suddenly thoughtful; they squat down upon the ground... | The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 10, No. 269, August 18, 1827 | Various | ['en'] | 16 | {'Popular literature -- Great Britain -- Periodicals'} | PG10074 | |||
It was reserved, however, for Mr. Eulenstein to acquire a musical
reputation from the Jew's harp. After ten years of close application and
study, this young artist has attained a perfect mastery over this
untractable instrument. In giving some account of the Jew's harp,
considered as a medium for musical sounds, we sh... | The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 10, No. 269, August 18, 1827 | Various | ['en'] | 16 | {'Popular literature -- Great Britain -- Periodicals'} | PG10074 | |||
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FORM OF ANCIENT BOOKS, THEIR ILLUMINATIONS, &c.
The mode of compacting the sheets of their books remained the same among
the Greeks during a long course of time. The sheets were folded three or
four together, and separately stitched: these parcels were then
connected nearly i... | The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 10, No. 269, August 18, 1827 | Various | ['en'] | 16 | {'Popular literature -- Great Britain -- Periodicals'} | PG10074 | |||
Few ancient books are altogether destitute of decorations; and many are
splendidly adorned with pictorial ornaments. These consist either of
flowery initials, grotesque cyphers, portraits, or even historical
compositions. Sometimes diagrams, explanatory of the subjects mentioned
by the author, are placed on the margin... | The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 10, No. 269, August 18, 1827 | Various | ['en'] | 16 | {'Popular literature -- Great Britain -- Periodicals'} | PG10074 | |||
[1] The Bechnanas imagine that none who eat of the kidneys of
the ox will have any offspring; on this account, no one, except
the aged, will taste-them. Hence the contemptuous term of
"kidney-eaters," synonymous with dotard.
Then addressing the warriors, he said, "there are many of you who do not
deser... | The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 10, No. 269, August 18, 1827 | Various | ['en'] | 16 | {'Popular literature -- Great Britain -- Periodicals'} | PG10074 | |||
He did not hastily adopt a measure, nor hastily abandon it. The plan
struck out by him for the preservation of Europe was the result of
prophetic wisdom and profound policy. But though defeated in many
respects by the selfish ambition and short-sighted imbecility of foreign
powers, whose rulers were too venal or too w... | The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 10, No. 269, August 18, 1827 | Various | ['en'] | 16 | {'Popular literature -- Great Britain -- Periodicals'} | PG10074 | |||
Absorbed as he was in the pursuits of public life, he did not neglect to
prepare himself in silence for that higher destination, which is at once
the incentive and reward of human virtue. His talents, superior and
splendid as they were, never made him forgetful of that eternal wisdom
from which they emanated. The fait... | The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 10, No. 269, August 18, 1827 | Various | ['en'] | 16 | {'Popular literature -- Great Britain -- Periodicals'} | PG10074 | |||
The immediate or _proximate_ cause of _giddiness_, or _vertigo_, that
is, the actual condition of the brain at the moment, is probably some
partial disturbance in the circulation there; which all the _occasional
causes_ mentioned are obviously calculated to produce. It is more or
less dangerous, according to the cause... | The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 10, No. 269, August 18, 1827 | Various | ['en'] | 16 | {'Popular literature -- Great Britain -- Periodicals'} | PG10074 | |||
* * * * *
USEFUL DOMESTIC HINTS
* * * * *
TAINTED MEAT
Meat tainted to an extreme degree may be speedily restored by washing it
in cold water, and afterwards in strong camomile tea; after which it may
be sprinkled with salt, and used the following day; or... | The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 10, No. 269, August 18, 1827 | Various | ['en'] | 16 | {'Popular literature -- Great Britain -- Periodicals'} | PG10074 | |||
It will improve greatly by standing a few months in the bottle.--_The
Vintner's Guide_.
WELSH ALE.
Pour forty-two gallons of water, hot, but not quite boiling, on eight
bushels of malt; cover, and let it stand three hours. In the mean time
infuse four pounds of hops in a little hot water; and put the water and
hops ... | The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 10, No. 269, August 18, 1827 | Various | ['en'] | 16 | {'Popular literature -- Great Britain -- Periodicals'} | PG10074 | |||
* * * * *
THE GATHERER
"I am but a _Gatherer_ and disposer of other men's
stuff."--_Wotton_.
* * * * *
CITY FEASTING.
The following is the bill of fare for the Court of Assistants of the
Worshipful the Company of Wax Chandlers, London, 1478:--Two l... | The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 10, No. 269, August 18, 1827 | Various | ['en'] | 16 | {'Popular literature -- Great Britain -- Periodicals'} | PG10074 | |||
IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, RELATED BY HIMSELF***
E-text produced by Martin Schub
A NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES
OF VENTURE, A NATIVE OF AFRICA,
But resident above sixty years in the United States of America.
RELATED BY HIMSELF.
VENTURE SMITH
New London, 1798
PREFACE
The following account of th... | A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, a Native of Africa, but Resident above Sixty Years in the United States of America, Related by Himself | Smith, Venture | 1805 | ['en'] | 161 | {'Slavery -- Connecticut'} | PG10075 | ||
The following account is published in compliance with the earnest
desire of the subject of it, and likewise a number of respectable
persons who are acquainted with him.
CHAPTER I.
_Containing an account of his life, from his birth to the time of his
leaving his native country._
I was born at Dukanda... | A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, a Native of Africa, but Resident above Sixty Years in the United States of America, Related by Himself | Smith, Venture | 1805 | ['en'] | 161 | {'Slavery -- Connecticut'} | PG10075 | ||
Before I dismiss this country, I must just inform my reader what I
remember concerning this place. A large river runs through this
country in a westerly course. The land for a great way on each side
is flat and level, hedged in by a considerable rise of the country at
a great distance from it. It scarce ever rains ... | A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, a Native of Africa, but Resident above Sixty Years in the United States of America, Related by Himself | Smith, Venture | 1805 | ['en'] | 161 | {'Slavery -- Connecticut'} | PG10075 | ||
Not more than six weeks had passed after my return, before a message
was brought by an inhabitant of the place where I lived the preceding
year to my father, that that place had been invaded by a numerous
army, from a nation not far distant, furnished with musical
instruments, and all kinds of arms then in use; that t... | A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, a Native of Africa, but Resident above Sixty Years in the United States of America, Related by Himself | Smith, Venture | 1805 | ['en'] | 161 | {'Slavery -- Connecticut'} | PG10075 | ||
The same night which was fixed upon to retreat, my father and his
family set off about break of day. The king and his two younger wives
went in one company, and my mother and her children in another. We
left our dwellings in succession, and my father's company went on
first. We directed our course for a large shrub... | A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, a Native of Africa, but Resident above Sixty Years in the United States of America, Related by Himself | Smith, Venture | 1805 | ['en'] | 161 | {'Slavery -- Connecticut'} | PG10075 | ||
The army of the enemy was large, I should suppose consisting of about
six thousand men. Their leader was called Baukurre. After destroying
the old prince, they decamped and immediately marched towards the sea,
lying to the west, taking with them myself and the women prisoners.
In the march a scouting party was detac... | A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, a Native of Africa, but Resident above Sixty Years in the United States of America, Related by Himself | Smith, Venture | 1805 | ['en'] | 161 | {'Slavery -- Connecticut'} | PG10075 | ||
The invaders then pinioned the prisoners of all ages and sexes
indiscriminately, took their flocks and all their effects, and moved
on their way towards the sea. On the march the prisoners were treated
with clemency, on account of their being submissive and humble.
Having come to the next tribe, the enemy laid siege ... | A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, a Native of Africa, but Resident above Sixty Years in the United States of America, Related by Himself | Smith, Venture | 1805 | ['en'] | 161 | {'Slavery -- Connecticut'} | PG10075 | ||
The vessel then sailed for Rhode Island, and arrived there after a
comfortable passage. Here my master sent me to live with one of his
sisters, until he could carry me to Fisher's Island, the place of his
residence. I had then competed my eighth year. After staying with
his sister some time I was taken to my master... | A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, a Native of Africa, but Resident above Sixty Years in the United States of America, Related by Himself | Smith, Venture | 1805 | ['en'] | 161 | {'Slavery -- Connecticut'} | PG10075 | ||
The first of the time of living at my master's own place, I was pretty
much employed in the house at carding wool and other household
business. In this situation I continued for some years, after which
my master put me to work out of doors. After many proofs of my
faithfulness and honesty, my master began to put gre... | A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, a Native of Africa, but Resident above Sixty Years in the United States of America, Related by Himself | Smith, Venture | 1805 | ['en'] | 161 | {'Slavery -- Connecticut'} | PG10075 | ||
After I lived with my master thirteen years, being then about twenty
two years old, I married Meg, a slave of his who was about my age. My
master owned a certain Irishman, named Heddy, who about that time
formed a plan of secretly leaving his master. After he had long had
this plan in meditation he suggested it to m... | A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, a Native of Africa, but Resident above Sixty Years in the United States of America, Related by Himself | Smith, Venture | 1805 | ['en'] | 161 | {'Slavery -- Connecticut'} | PG10075 | ||
Not a long time passed after that, before Heddy was sent by my master
to New-London gaol. At the close of that year I was sold to a Thomas
Stanton, and had to be separated from my wife and one daughter, who
was about one month old. He resided at Stonington-point. To this
place I brought with me from my last master'... | A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, a Native of Africa, but Resident above Sixty Years in the United States of America, Related by Himself | Smith, Venture | 1805 | ['en'] | 161 | {'Slavery -- Connecticut'} | PG10075 | ||
When my master returned from the island, his wife told him of the
affair, but for the present he seemed to take no notice of it, and
mentioned not a word of it to me. Some days after his return, in the
morning as I was putting on a log in the fire-place, not suspecting
harm from any one, I received a most violent str... | A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, a Native of Africa, but Resident above Sixty Years in the United States of America, Related by Himself | Smith, Venture | 1805 | ['en'] | 161 | {'Slavery -- Connecticut'} | PG10075 | ||
For a day or two after this not any one said much to me, until one
Hempsted Miner, of Stonington, asked me if I would live with him. I
answered him that I would. He then requested me to make myself
discontented and to appear as unreconciled to my master as I could
before that he bargained with him for me; and that i... | A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, a Native of Africa, but Resident above Sixty Years in the United States of America, Related by Himself | Smith, Venture | 1805 | ['en'] | 161 | {'Slavery -- Connecticut'} | PG10075 | ||
Being encouraged by the success which I had met in redeeming myself, I
again solicited my master for a further chance of completing it. The
chance for which I solicited him was that of going out to work the
ensuing winter. He agreed to this on condition that I would give him
one quarter of my earnings. On these ter... | A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, a Native of Africa, but Resident above Sixty Years in the United States of America, Related by Himself | Smith, Venture | 1805 | ['en'] | 161 | {'Slavery -- Connecticut'} | PG10075 | ||
CHAPTER III.
_Containing an account of his life, from the time of his purchasing his
freedom to the present day._
My wife and children were yet in bondage to Mr. Thomas Stanton. About
this time I lost a chest, containing besides clothing, about thirty-
eight pounds in paper money. It was burnt by acc... | A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, a Native of Africa, but Resident above Sixty Years in the United States of America, Related by Himself | Smith, Venture | 1805 | ['en'] | 161 | {'Slavery -- Connecticut'} | PG10075 | ||
It will here be remembered how much money I earned by cutting wood in
four years. Besides this I had considerable money, amounting in all
to near three hundred pounds. After this I purchased a negro man, for
no other reason than to oblige him, and gave him sixty pounds. But in
a short time after he run away from me... | A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, a Native of Africa, but Resident above Sixty Years in the United States of America, Related by Himself | Smith, Venture | 1805 | ['en'] | 161 | {'Slavery -- Connecticut'} | PG10075 | ||
During my residence at Long-Island, I raised one year with another,
ten cart loads of water-melons, and lost a great many every year
besides by the thievishness of the sailors. What I made by the water-
melons I sold there, amounted to nearly five hundred dollars. Various
other methods I in order to enable me to red... | A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, a Native of Africa, but Resident above Sixty Years in the United States of America, Related by Himself | Smith, Venture | 1805 | ['en'] | 161 | {'Slavery -- Connecticut'} | PG10075 | ||
The physician's bills for attending her during her illness amounted to
forty pounds. Having reached my fifty-fourth year, I hired two negro
men, one named William Jacklin, and the other Mingo. Mingo lived with
me one year, and having received his wages, run in debt to me eight
dollars, for which he gave me his note.... | A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, a Native of Africa, but Resident above Sixty Years in the United States of America, Related by Himself | Smith, Venture | 1805 | ['en'] | 161 | {'Slavery -- Connecticut'} | PG10075 | ||
Four years after, I met with another loss, far superior to this in
value, and I think by no less wicked means. Being going to New-London
with a grand-child, I took passage on an Indian's boat, and went there
with him. On our return, the Indian took on board two hogsheads of
molasses, one of which belonged to Capt. E... | A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, a Native of Africa, but Resident above Sixty Years in the United States of America, Related by Himself | Smith, Venture | 1805 | ['en'] | 161 | {'Slavery -- Connecticut'} | PG10075 | ||
LISTER'S GREAT ADVENTURE
BY HAROLD BINDLOSS
_Author_ of "THE WILDERNESS MINE," "WYNDHAM'S PAL," "PARTNERS OF THE
OUT-TRAIL," "THE BUCCANEER FARMER," "THE LURE OF THE NORTH," "THE GIRL
FROM KELLER'S," "CARMEN'S MESSENGER," ETC.
1920
CONTENTS
PART I--BARBARA'S REBELLION
CHAPTER
I CARTWRIGHT MEDDLES
II IN THE DARK
... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
Mrs. Cartwright did so. She was a large, dull woman, but had kept a
touch of the beauty that had marked her when she was young. She was
kind, conventional, and generally anxious to take the proper line.
Cartwright was twelve years older, and since she was a widow and had
three children when she married him, her friend... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
Mrs. Cartwright talked, but she talked much and Cartwright hardly
listened, and looked across the lake. A canoe drifted out from behind a
neighboring point, and its varnished side shone in the fading light.
Then a man dipped the paddle, and the ripple at the bow got longer and
broke the reflections of the pines. A gir... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
"I doubt if Shillito's character is all one could wish,'" Mrs.
Cartwright resumed. "Character's very important, don't you think? Mrs.
Grant--the woman with the big hat--knows something about him and she
said he was _fierce_. I think she meant he was wild. Then she hinted he
spent money he ought not to spend. But isn't... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
"I don't know your object for wanting Shillito, but if my supposition's
near the mark, might I state that I approve? In fact, I'd begun to
wonder whether something ought not to be done. The fellow's plausible.
Not our sort, of course; but when a girl's romantic and obstinate--"
Cartwright stopped him. "Exactly! Well, ... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
"He asked you to keep the stakes in bounds? It's a good joke!"
"Not at all," said Cartwright dryly. "I like an exciting game, so long
as it is straight, and when I lose I pay. I do lose, and if I come out
fifty dollars ahead when I leave, I'll be satisfied. How much have you
cleared?"
Shillito said nothing, and Cartwr... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
Mrs. Cartwright weighed the suggestion. Vernon was a Winnipeg merchant,
and his wife had urged her to join the party at the fishing camp in the
woods. The journey was long, but Mrs. Cartwright rather liked the plan.
Shillito would not find them, and Mrs. Vernon had two sons.
"Can't you come with us?" she asked. "Morti... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
Cartwright meant her to meet the proper people, because he was fond of
Barbara. She had grace, and although her figure was slender and girlish,
she carried herself well. Her brown eyes were steady, her small mouth
was firm, and as a rule her color was delicate white and pink. Now it
was high, and Cartwright knew she w... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
"You had better try to console yourself with the Wheeler boys; they're
straight young fellows. Shillito is gone. He went by the car this
morning and it's unlikely he'll come back."
"You sent him off?" said Barbara, and her eyes sparkled. "Well, I'm not
a child and you're not my father really. Why did you meddle?"
"For... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
Perhaps nobody else could have bullied Shillito; Mortimer certainly
could not, but Barbara refused to speculate about the means Cartwright
had used.
Shillito ought not to have gone without seeing her; this was where it
hurt. She was entitled to be angry--and then she started, for a page boy
came quietly out of the sha... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
When two weeks had gone, Grace and Barbara sat one evening among the
stones by a lake. The evening was calm, the sun was setting, and the
shadow of the pines stretched across the tranquil water. Now and then
the reflections trembled and a languid ripple broke against the
driftwood on the beach. In the distance a loon ... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
"Oh well, it ought to amuse Harry and Winter to look for us, and if
they're annoyed, they deserve some punishment. If they had urged us very
much to go, I would have gone. Anyhow, you needn't bother. There's a
short way back to camp by the old loggers' trail."
Grace said nothing. She thought Barbara's carelessness was... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
She got up, and when they set off Grace looked regretfully across the
lake, for she would sooner have gone home on board the fishing bateau.
She was puzzled. The bays on the lake were numerous, and islands dotted
the winding reaches, but it was strange the young men had gone to the
wrong spot. They knew the lake and h... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
"Oh!" Grace cried, "something is creeping through the bush!"
"Then don't stop," said Barbara. "Perhaps it's a wolf!"
Grace clutched her dress and ran. At first, she thought she heard
Barbara behind, but she owned she had not her sister's pluck and fear
gave her speed. She must get as far as possible from the pool befo... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
"Nothing can have hurt Barbara, and if she has lost her way, she cannot
wander far, because she must be in the loop between the river and the
lake. But Harry did go to meet you, and when he found you had not come
back went off again with Bob. I expect they'll soon arrive with
Barbara."
They waited for half-an-hour, an... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
At daybreak Vernon left the camp, and when he reached the pool walked
round its edge and then sat down and lighted his pipe. A few yards in
front, a number of faint marks were printed on a belt of sand. By and by
he heard steps, and frowned when Winter came out from an opening in the
row of trunks. They were friends, ... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
"What are you going to do about it?" he asked.
"To begin with, I'm going to hide these tracks. After all, I don't see
much light. I suppose I ought to tell my mother and put Mrs. Cartwright
wise; but I won't. Spying on a girl and telling is mean. All the same,
I'm surely bothered. In a sense, my mother's accountable f... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
"You won't bother me, and I'll fix your foot in two or three minutes so
it won't hurt again," Mrs. Vernon declared. "The elixir's famous and I
haven't known it to miss. I always carry some when we camp in the
woods." She turned to her son. "Tell Barbara how soon I cured you when
you hurt your arm."
"You want to burn M... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
Barbara laughed and Mrs. Cartwright languidly agreed, but Grace frowned.
Although she did not approve Cartwright, he was the head of her house,
and to know his clever tricks were something of a joke hurt her dignity.
Harry saw her frown.
"Anyhow, Cartwright's promise stands," he resumed. "If he ran his boat
across hal... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
Mrs. Cartwright saw, and a few minutes afterwards her hostess knew.
"It's plain I must give Harry my confidence, to some extent," Mrs.
Vernon said, and went to look for her son.
She found him going off for a swim, and when she told her tale he
frowned.
"In a way, perhaps, I'm accountable, but we'll talk about this aga... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
An accident in the ranges on the Pacific slope, when a mountain
locomotive jumped the track and plunged down a precipitous hillside,
gave Lister his first chance. He got the locomotive back to the line,
and being rewarded by a better post, stubbornly pushed himself nearer
the front. Now, however, it looked as if he mu... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
He sat down on the little box-seat, with his back against the door. The
platform had not the new guards the company was then fitting; there was
an opening in the rails, and one could go down the steps when the train
was running. The moonlight touched the back of the car in front, but
Lister was in the gloom, and when ... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
"I think not. You see, unless there's a washout or the track is blocked,
nothing is allowed to stop the Vancouver express."
The girl glanced at the door again and then gave him an appealing look.
"But I must get off! I oughtn't to have come on board. I want to go
East, towards Montreal, and not to Winnipeg."
Although ... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
It was plain the fellow had gone to look for the girl and had not found
her. The conductor had seen to that. Lister smiled, but admitted that
the thing was puzzling. The man was older than the girl, although he was
not old enough to be her father. If he were her husband, she would not
have run away from him, and it di... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
"Then you'll stop and get water at the tank," Lister interrupted. "Will
you make it before the East-bound comes along?"
"We ought to make it half-an-hour ahead. Wires all right that way.
Nothing's on the road."
Lister turned to the girl. "If you're going East you must buy a new
ticket at Malcolm. Have you money?"
"I h... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
Small trees grew along the track and the light from the cars touched
their branches. The line was checkered by illuminated patches and belts
of gloom. Lister heard somebody open the baggage car and then saw a man
run along the line beside the train. Another jumped off a platform and
they met not far from Lister's wind... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
He went off, grumbling, but when the train stopped came back with a
trooper of the North-West Mounted Police.
"Where's the guy you told me to watch out for?" he asked.
Lister said he did not know and offered to go with them and help find
the man. It looked as if he were going to see the end of the play.
When they open... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
He saw Shillito's hand go up and next moment got a heavy blow. For all
that, he seized the man and held on, though blood ran into his eyes and
he felt dizzy. Shillito struggled like a savage animal and Lister
imagined the trooper did not help much. He got his arms round his
antagonist and tried to pull him down; Shill... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
The other nodded, and signed the driver to start. The car rolled off and
stopped at the house of a doctor who dressed the cut on Lister's head
and ordered him a week's rest. Lister went to a hotel, and in the
morning found a romantic narrative of Shillito's escape in the
newspaper, but was relieved to note that nothin... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
"The trooper was young and I sympathized with his keenness. Looked as if
it was his first important job and he meant to make good."
"A romantic impulse?" Duveen remarked, and laughed. "Well, when one is
young, I expect it's hard to stand off while a fight's going on. All the
same, it's strange you didn't sympathize wi... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
Lister made some excuses, but Duveen would not be refused.
"When we stopped at your camp you made things smooth for us. You gave
Ruth some thrills, showed her the romance of track-grading, and
generally helped her to a good time. Anyhow, the thing is fixed. We'll
send the car for you."
They went off soon afterwards, a... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
Lister was highly strung. The music stirred his imagination, and when
the curtain went down the light and glitter, the perfume that drifted
about, the women's dress, and the society of his attractive companion
gave him a curious thrill. He began to see he had missed much; ambitions
that had forced him to struggle for ... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
"Sometimes one dreams! I expect you dream about locomotives breaking
through trestles and dump-cars plunging into muskegs?"
He laughed. "They're things I know, and safe to dream about. All the
same, I rather expect I'll be haunted by lights and music, pretty
dresses and faces--"
He stopped, and Ruth remarked: "If thes... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
Lister threw away his cigarette. He was poor and not romantic. The girl
he had helped had vanished, and after their excursion he hardly expected
to see Ruth again. Ruth was kind, but she would soon forget him when he
was gone. He would go to Winnipeg Beach with her, and then return to the
woods and let his job absorb ... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
Lister got a canoe, and fixing a cushion for Ruth, picked up the paddle.
"Where shall we go?"
"North, as far as you can. Let's get away from the boats and trippers
and imagine we're back in the woods where you helped me catch the big
gray trout."
"Then you liked it at the construction camp?" Lister remarked. "It was a... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
"Oh, well," said Ruth, "exploration like that is useful and one doesn't
run much risk. But risk and adventure appeal to some people."
Lister resumed paddling. The girl had charm and he was young; if he were
not cautious, there might be some risk for him. He was not a clever
philanderer, and Ruth and Duveen had been ki... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
By and by, however, the point stood out close ahead. The trees on the
summit bent in the wind; spray leaped about the bowlders where the white
foam rolled. He must go round and find a landing to lee, but to go round
he must cross the belt of breaking water, with the savage wind abeam.
The canoe shipped some water, and... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
"No," he said, with a touch of awkwardness. "I reckon I had better stick
to the track. To know where you properly belong is something, and if I
took the other job, my chiefs would soon find me out."
"You're modest," Ruth remarked. "One likes modest people, but don't you
think you're obstinate?"
"When the trail you hit... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
All the seats and much of the central passage were occupied, for the
most part by young men and women. Some were frankly lovers and did not
look disturbed by the banter of their friends. Lister was embarrassed,
for Ruth's sake, until he saw with some surprise that she studied the
others with amused curiosity. Looking ... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
By and by a man joined him and remarked: "The boys have got the ties up,
but I reckon they won't fix the track for three or four hours. Looks as
if the blamed muskeg was going to beat us."
"She can't beat us," Lister rejoined impatiently. "The trouble is,
hauling the stuff she swallows runs up construction costs, and ... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
Lister said nothing. He did not choose his helpers, but tried to make
the best use of those the bosses sent. Willis had some useful qualities,
but he was slack, and got sulky if one drove him hard. The young man had
come from the drawing-office of a famous bridge-building works.
In the meantime, the rumble of the grav... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
Lister hardly thought he could stop the train. It looked as if he would
be caught on the trestle, but he meant to go on. He did not argue about
it; he was rather moved by instinctive stubbornness. At moments of
strain one does not argue and logic has no appeal. Character counts for
all, and Lister followed his bent. H... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
When Lister looked round the train was gone. He had done what he had
undertaken, and after waiting for a few moments he started back. Now he
could go cautiously, he stopped and tried to brace himself at the end of
the bridge. Although he had run across not long since, he shrank from
the dark, forbidding gaps. For all ... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
"I doubt. We didn't come from a famous office, and it's not always
enough to know your job."
"Somebody will get a better post, and if I'm lucky I'll stay. If not, I
think I'll try the irrigation works."
"I feel like that," Kemp declared. "But suppose the irrigation people
turn our application down?"
"Then I'll lie off... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
He admitted that to realize his ambitions might be hard, but he meant to
try. Canada was for the young and stubborn. If his chiefs did not
promote him, he would make a plunge, and if his new plan did not work,
he would go over and see the Old Country. Then he would come back,
braced and refreshed, and try his luck aga... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
Lister lounged against the rails on the Tecumseh veranda. The boards
were cracked and dirty; burned matches and cigar ends were scattered
about, and a skeleton, gauze covered door that shut with a powerful
spring kept some of the flies and mosquitoes out of the hotel.
"We'll know to-morrow," he remarked presently.
Kem... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
Lister agreed, and looked up the dusty street. The fronts of the small
frame houses were cracked by the sun, and some were carried up to hide
the roof and give the building a fictitious height. A Clover-leaf wagon
stood in front of a store, the wheels crusted by dry mud, and the team
fidgeted amidst a swarm of flies. ... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
"Perhaps I ought not to have come up. In fact, I hesitated--"
Duveen laughed. "So I remarked! You reckoned the Occidental stoop was
pretty public and your talking to me might imply that you wanted my
support? Well, I'll risk that. It's obvious you're on the short list. Do
you want a post?"
For a moment or two Lister p... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
Lister excused himself and went back to the Tecumseh, where the bill of
fare was frugal and the serving rude. He imagined he had refused much
more than a first-class supper, but was satisfied he had taken the
proper line. For one thing, Duveen knew Ruth had given him her
friendship and, since he knew his daughter, it ... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
Lister's heart beat. He felt this was ridiculous, because he had
persuaded himself it did not matter whether he got the post or not. Now,
however, when the moment to try his luck had come, he shrank from the
plunge he had resolved to make if he were not engaged. After all, he
knew and liked his occupation; to let it g... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
CHAPTER IX
BARBARA PLAYS A PART
Lister returned to the railroad camp and stayed until the company sent a
man to fill his post. In the meantime, he wrote to some of his father's
relations, whom he had not seen, and their reply was kind. They stated
that while he was in England he must make their house his home. When hi... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
By and by Lister remembered he wanted to take his relations a few
typically Canadian presents. He had seen nothing that satisfied him at
Winnipeg, and had better look about the shops at Montreal. Anyhow, it
would amuse him for an hour or two. He got up, went along the path for a
few yards, and then stopped.
Across the... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
The light that touched the girl's face did not illuminate it all. Her
profile was sharp as an old daguerreotype: he saw the flowing line from
brow to chin, drawn with something of austere classic beauty, the arched
lips and the faint indication of a gently-rounded cheek. The rest was in
shadow, and the contrast of lig... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
"Come to the fountain up the street in an hour. This is my early
evening."
Lister went off with the bag and spoons, and when he returned to the
fountain saw her crossing the square in front. She was dressed like the
shop-girls he had seen hurrying on board the street cars in the morning;
her clothes were pretty and fa... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
He wondered whether she felt her meeting him was something of an
adventure, but he was persuaded she was playing a part. Her frankness
was not bold, the little, French-Canadian gestures were obviously
borrowed, and some of the colloquialisms she used were out of date.
Except for these, her talk was cultivated. For a t... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
"Oh, well," he said, "there's not much risk of my bothering you about
the fellow again. I start for England in a few hours."
Her glance got wistful. She moved her plate and her hand trembled.
"You are English?" he resumed.
"I met you first on board a Canadian train and now you find me helping
at a Montreal store. Isn'... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
When he returned to his hotel he stopped at the desk and gave the clerk
a cigarette. As a rule, a Canadian hotel clerk knows something about
everybody of importance in the town.
"I bought some _souvenirs_ at a curiosity depot," he said, and told the
other where the shop was. "Although they charged me pretty high, the
... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
"Take a smoke," he said, indicating a packet of cigarettes. "Nothing
fresh in the newspapers. They've caught the fellow Porteous; he was
trying to steal across to Detroit."
Lister sat down and lighted a cigarette. Porteous was a clerk who had
not long since gone off with a large sum of his employer's money.
"Canada is... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
"Why did she want to get away?"
"I don't know. Looked as if she was afraid of him. When I first saw her
she was on the car platform and I reckoned she was bracing herself to
jump off. Since we were running across a trestle, I pulled her from the
steps. That's how the thing began."
"But it didn't stop just then?"
"It s... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
"What are you going to do in the Old Country?" Vernon asked.
"I have no plans. For a time, I guess I'll loaf and look about. Then I
want to see my father's folks, whom I haven't met."
"Your father was English?"
"Why, yes," said Lister, smiling. "If you reckon up, you'll find a big
proportion of the staunchest Canadian... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
"We'll make Liverpool soon after dark, and if I can get the train I
want, I'll pull out right then," he said. "You allowed you might try a
run on board an English ship before you went back?"
"It's possible," said Lister. "Depends on how my wad holds out and on
somebody's being willing to give me a post."
Vernon nodded... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
"You imply that you have got to know Cartwright before you fix him?"
Vernon laughed. "I haven't quite fixed him yet. At one time he's a sober
gentleman of the stiff old school; at another he's as rough as the
roughest hobo I've met in the West. I reckon he'd beat a business crook
at the other's smartest trick, but if ... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
PART II--THE RECKONING
CHAPTER I
VERNON'S PLOT
Lister occupied the end of a slate-flag bench on the lawn at Carrock,
Mrs. Cartwright's house in Rannerdale. Rannerdale slopes to a lake in
the North Country, and the old house stands among trees and rocks in a
sheltered hollow. The sun shone on its lichened front, where ... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
Cartwright was frankly puzzling. He looked like a sober country
gentleman, and this was not the type Lister had thought to meet. His
clothes were fastidiously good, his voice had a level, restrained note,
but his eye was like a hawk's, as Vernon had said. Now and then one saw
a twinkle of ironical amusement and some o... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
"The man was the famous crook, Shillito," Vernon remarked.
Cartwright lifted his head and looked at Vernon hard. Then he looked at
Lister, who felt embarrassed and angry. He saw Grace and Mrs. Cartwright
were curious and thought Hyslop's glance got keen.
"If it will not bother Mr. Lister, we would like to hear his nar... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
"She was young, and I think attractive," he replied. "She wore a knitted
cap and a kind of jersey a girl might use for boating. I thought she
came from a summer camp."
Cartwright's face was inscrutable, but Lister saw the others' interest
was keen. Mrs. Cartwright's eyes were fixed on him and he got a hint of
suspense... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
Lister resumed his narrative, but it was plain the climax had passed.
The others' interest was now polite, and he went on as fast as possible.
He had begun to see a light and wanted to finish and get away. He did
not, however, see that while he told his artless tale he had drawn his
character. When he stopped Cartwrig... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
"She wanted to pay me," said Lister. "I refused."
"Why?" Cartwright asked, looking at him hard.
Lister hesitated, "For one thing, I didn't know the sum. Then I knew her
wages were not high. You ought to see I couldn't take the money."
"You ought to have taken the money, for the girl's sake."
"Oh," said Lister, "I thin... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 |
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