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3 | FATHER AND SON. | For though thou work'st my mother ill I feel thou art my father still! --_Byron. _ Yet what no chance could then reveal, And no one would be first to own, Let fate and courage still conceal, When truth could bring reproach alone. --_Milnes. _ Ishmael had been violently shaken. It was with much effort ... | {
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4 | BEE. | And coldly from that noble heart, In all its glowing youth, His lore had turned and spurned apart Its tenderness and truth-- Let him alone to live, or die-- Alone! --Yet, who is she? Some guardian angel from the sky, To bless and aid him? --Bee! _--Anon. _ Ishmael received many other invitations.... | {
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5 | SECOND LOVE. | The maiden loved the young man well, And pined for many a day, Because that star-eyed, queenly belle Had won his heart away. But now the young man chooses well Between the beauteous pair, The proud and brilliant dark-haired belle, And gentle maiden fair. --_M. F. Tupper_ After tea Ishmael, having... | {
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6 | AT WOODSIDE. | Who can describe the sweets of country life But those blest men that do enjoy and taste them? Plain husbandmen, though far below our pitch Of fortune placed, enjoy a wealth above us: They breathe a fresh and uncorrupted air, And in sweet homes enjoy untroubled sleep. Their state is fearless and secure, enriched... | {
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7 | AT TANGLEWOOD. | Are not the forests, waves and skies, a part Of me and of my soul as I of them? Is not the love of these deep in my heart With a pure passion? Should I not contemn All objects if compared with these? and stem A tide of sufferings, rather than forego Such feelings for the hard and worldly phlegm ... | {
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8 | WHY CLAUDIA WAS ALONE. | Be not amazed at life. 'Tis still The mode of God with his elect: Their hopes exactly to fulfill, In times and ways they least expect.
Who marry as they choose, and choose, Not as they ought, they mock the priest, And leaving out obedience, lose The finest flavor of the feast. --_Coventry Patmore_... | {
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9 | HOLIDAY. | Ha! like a kind hand on my brow Comes this fresh breeze. Cooling its dull and feverish glow, While through my being seems to flow She breath of a new life--the healing of the seas.
Good-by to pain and care! I take Mine ease to-day; Here where these sunny waters break, And ripples t... | {
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10 | ISHMAEL AT BRUDENELL | God loves no heart to others iced, Nor erring flatteries which bedim Our glorious membership in Christ, Wherein all loving His, love Him. --_M. F. Tupper_.
It was a long day's ride from the Beacon to Brudenell Hall. The greater length of the road lay through the forest. It was, in fact, the very same route ... | {
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11 | THE PROFESSOR OF ODD JOBS. | An ancient man, hoary gray with eld. --_Dante_.
The little house was situated right at the foot of the hill south of Brudenell Hall.
Ishmael approached it from behind and walked around to the front. He opened the little wooden gate of the front yard and saw seated in the front door, enjoying that early autumn morni... | {
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12 | THE JOURNEY. | Ever charming, ever new, When will the landscape tire the view? The fountains fall, the rivers flow, The woody valleys, warm and low, The windy summit, wild and high, Roughly rushing on the sky! The pleasant seat, the chapel tower, The naked rock, the shady bower, The town and village, dome and farm, Each... | {
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13 | LADY VINCENT'S RECEPTION. | The folds of her wine-dark violet dress Glow over the sofa fall on fall. As she sits in the light of her loveliness, With a smile for each and for all.
Could we find out her heart through that velvet and lace, Can it beat without rumpling her sumptuous dress? She will show us her shoulder, her bosom, her ... | {
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14 | ROMANCE AND REALITY. | If we had heard that she was dead We hastily had cried, "She was so richly favored God will forgive her pride!" But now to see her living death-- Power, glory, arts, all gone-- Her empire lost and her poor breath Still vainly struggling on! --_Milnes. _ The "Ocean Empress" steamed her way eastwar... | {
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15 | CASTLE CRAGG. | The wildest scene, but this, can show Some touch of nature's genial glow; But here, above, around, below, On mountain or in glen, Nor tree, nor shrub, nor plant, nor flower. Nor aught of vegetative power The weary eye may ken. For all is rocks at random thrown, Black waves, bare crags, and banks of ston... | {
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16 | FAUSTINA. | And she was beautiful, they said; I saw that she was more-- One of those women women dread, Men fatally adore. --_Anon. _ It was a saloon of magnificent proportions and splendid decorations. And Claudia was sailing across it with majestic gait, in the full consciousness of being the Viscountess Vincent and... | {
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17 | THE PLOT AGAINST CLAUDIA. | Alas! a thought of saddest weight Presses and will have vent: Had she not scorned his love, her fate Had been so different! Had her heart bent its haughty will To take him for its lord, She had been proudly happy still; Still honored, still adored. --_Monckton Milnes_ Indignation rooted Claudia t... | {
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18 | IN THE TRAITOR'S TOILS. | Her heart is sick with thinking Of the misery she must find. Her mind is almost sinking-- That once so buoyant mind-- She cannot look before her, On the evil-haunted way. Redeem her! oh! restore her! Thou Lord of night and day! --_Monckton Milnes. _ Overwhelmed with, horror, terror, and indignation, Cl... | {
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19 | CLAUDIA'S TROUBLES AND PERILS. | Like love in a worldly breast Alone in my lady's chamber The lamp burns low, suppressed 'Mid satins of broidered amber Where she lies, sore distressed.
My lady here alone May think till her heart is broken Of the love that is dead and done, Of the day that with no token For evermore hath gone.... | {
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20 | A LINK IN CLAUDIA'S FATE. | For who knew, she thought, what the amazement, The irruption of clatter and blaze meant. And if, in this minute of wonder, No outlet 'mid lightning and thunder, Lay broad and her shackles all shivered, The captive at length was delivered? --_Robert Browning. _ Claudia had awakened one morning with one of tho... | {
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21 | NEWS FOR ISHMAEL. | December's sky is chill and drear, December's leaf is dun and sere; No longer Autumn's glowing red Upon our forest hills is shed; No more beneath the evening beam The wave reflects their crimson gleam; The shepherd shifts his mantle's fold And wraps him closely from the cold: His dogs no merry circles w... | {
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22 | ISHMAEL'S VISIT TO BEE. | Thank Heaven my first love failed, As every first love should. --_Palmore_.
Ishmael mounted and rode off, calling only at the hotel to say good- by to the judge and renew his promise of a punctual return.
Then he galloped blithely away; crossed the beautiful Anacostia, by the Navy Yard bridge; and gayly took the ... | {
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23 | HANNAH'S HAPPY PROGNOSTICS. | The morn is tip again, the dewy morn, With breath all incense and with cheek all bloom, Laughing the night away with playful scorn, Rejoicing as if earth contained no tomb And glowing into day. --_Byron_.
Ishmael had also keenly felt the parting with Beatrice. But accustomed to self-government, he did n... | {
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24 | THE JOURNEY. | Love, hope, and joy, fair pleasure's smiling train; Hate, fear, and grief, the family of pain; These mixed with art and to due bounds confined, Make and maintain the balance of the mind; The lights and shades whose well-accorded strife Give all the strength and color to our life ... | {
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25 | THE VOYAGE. | Thalatta! Thalatta! I greet thee, thou ocean eternal! I give thee ten thousand times greeting, My whole soul exulting! --_Heine_.
It was a splendid winter morning, and Boston harbor, with its shipping, presented a magnificent appearance, lighted up by the rising sun, as the "Oceana" steamed out towards the open s... | {
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26 | THE STORM. | Colder and louder blew the wind, A gale from the northeast; The snow fell hissing in the brine; And the billows foamed like yeast.
Down came the storm and smote amain, The vessel in its strength; She shuddered and paused like a frightened steed, Then leaped her cable's length.
And fast through t... | {
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27 | THE WRECK. | And ever the fitful gusts between A sound came from the land; It was the sound of the tramping surf, On the rocks and the hard sea-sand.
The breakers were right beneath her bows, She drifted a dreary wreck, And a whooping billow swept the crew Like icicles from her deck.
She struck where the whi... | {
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28 | A DISCOVERY. | Why stand ye thus amazed? me thinks your eyes Are fixed in meditation; and all here Seem like so many senseless statues, As if your souls had suffered an eclipse Betwixt your judgments and affections. --_Swetnam_ We must return to Claudia, and to that evening when she was accosted by Katie on the stairs.
O... | {
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29 | A DEEP ONE. | An evil soul producing holy witness, Is like a villain with a smiling face. A goodly apple, rotten at the core. --_Shakespeare. _ And when her footman had retired Claudia gave herself up to severe and painful thought upon what she had just heard. And the more she reflected on the circumstances the more firmly conv... | {
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30 | A NIGHT OF HORROR. | He threw his sting into a poisonous libel And on the honor of--oh God! --his wife, The nearest, dearest part of all men's honor, Left a base slur to pass from month to mouth, Of loose mechanics with all foul comments, Of villainous jests and blasphemies obscene; While sneering nobles in more polished guise ... | {
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31 | THE CASTLE VAULT. | It was more dark and lone, that vault, Than the worst dungeon cell, A hermit built it for his fault, In penitence to dwell: This den, which chilling every sense Of feeling, hearing, sight, Was called the Vault of Penitence, Excluding air and light. 'Twas by an ancient prelate made The place of ... | {
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32 | THE END OF CLAUDIA'S PRIDE. | Is she saved by pangs that pained her? Is there comfort in all it cost her? Before the world had gained her, Before the Lord had lost her, Or her soul had quite disdained her?
For her soul--(and this is the worst To bear, as we well know)-- Has been watching her from the first As closely as God could ... | {
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33 | THE COUNTESS OF HURSTMONCEUX. | The beauteous woe that charms like faded light, The cheek so pure that knows no youthful bloom, Well suiteth her dark brow and forehead white, And in the sad endurance of her eye Is all that love believes of woman's majesty. --_Elliott_.
In the meantime Lady Vincent reached Banff. She drove at once to the pri... | {
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34 | THE RESCUE. | The tide has ebbed away; No more wild surging 'gainst the adamant rocks, No swayings of the sea-weed false that mocks The hues of gardens gay; No laugh of little wavelets at their play! No lucid pools reflecting Heaven's brow-- Both storm and cloud alike are ended now.
The gray, bare rocks sit lone; T... | {
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35 | A FATHER'S VENGEANCE. | Haste me to know it; that I, with wings as swift As meditation or the thoughts of love, May sweep to my revenge! --_Shakespeare_.
Ishmael went to the door and admitted Katie. The old woman made an impulsive rush towards her master, but stopped and burst into a passion of tears so violent that she was scarcely abl... | {
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36 | ON THE VISCOUNTS TRACK. | Vengeance to God alone belongs; But when I think of all my wrongs My blood is liquid flame! --_Marmion. _ While Ishmael and Judge Merlin still conversed the carriage was announced. A message was dispatched to Mr. Brudenell; but the messenger returned with the news that the gentleman had gone out.
Therefore Ish... | {
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37 | STILL ON THE TRACK. | One sole desire, one passion now remains, To keep life's fever still within his veins,-- Vengeance! Dire vengeance on the wretch who cast On him and all he loved that ruinous blast. --_Moore_.
Our party drove back to the hotel to await the coming of the steward with Sally. Mr. Brudenell had not yet returned.
... | {
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38 | CLAUDIA AT CAMERON COURT. | Sweet are the paths--oh, passing sweet, By Esk's fair streams that run O'er airy steep, thro' copsewood deep, Impervious to the sun.
There the rapt poet's step may rove, And yield the muse the day; There beauty led by timid love May shun the tell-tale ray. --_Scott_.
Cameron Court, the favorite ... | {
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39 | SUSPENSE. | Wait, for the day is breaking, Tho' the dull night be long, Wait, Heav'n is not forsaking Thy heart--be strong! be strong! --_Anon_.
As the time approached when Claudia might reasonably expect a reply to the letter she had written to her father, she naturally became very anxious.
Would he answer that last... | {
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40 | FATHER AND DAUGHTER. | How deep, how thorough felt the glow Of rapture, kindling out of woe; How exquisite one single drop Of bliss, that sparkling to the top Of misery's cup, is keenly quaffed Though death must follow soon the draught. --_Moore_.
The countess was sitting on one of the armchairs near the fire when Claudia led the... | {
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41 | ARREST OF LORD VINCENT AND FAUSTINA. | Our plots fall short like darts that rash hands throw With an ill aim that have so far to go, Nor can we long discovery prevent, We deal too much among the innocent. --_Howard_.
Lord Vincent was at Castle Cragg. Unable to absent himself long from the siren who was the evil genius of his life, he had come down o... | {
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42 | A BITTER NIGHT. | St. Agnes' Eve--ah, bitter chill it was! The owl, for all his feathers, was acold, The hare limped trembling thro' the frozen grass; And silent was the flock in woolly fold! --_Keats_.
A freezing night. Faustina shook as with an ague-fit, and her teeth chattered like a pair of castanets, as she crouched down in... | {
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43 | FRUITS OF CRIME. | Ay, think upon the cause-- Forget it not: when you lie down to rest, Let it be black among your dreams; and when The morn returns, so let it stand between The sun and you, as an ill-omened cloud, Upon a summer's day of festival. --_Byron_.
After a drive of about twenty minutes through the narrow streets t... | {
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44 | NEMESIS. | With pallid cheeks and haggard eyes, And loud laments and heartfelt sighs, Unpitied, hopeless of relief, She drinks the cup of bitter grief.
In vain the sigh, in rain the tear, Compassion never enters here; But justice clanks the iron chain And calls forth shame, remorse, and pain. --_Anon_ The same ca... | {
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45 | THE VISCOUNT'S FALL. | They that on glorious ancestors enlarge Produce their debt instead of their discharge. --_Young_.
The viscount ordered his carriage to be in readiness to convey him to the magistrate's office. Old Cuthbert was punctual. And accordingly on the morning in question Lord Vincent, and Faustina, attended by Mrs. MacDonal... | {
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46 | THE FATE OF THE VISCOUNT. | Oh, vanity of youthful blood, So by misuse to poison good. Reason awakes and views unbarred The sacred gates she wished to guard, Sees approach the harpy law, And Nemesis beholds with awe, Ready to seize the poor remains That vice has left of all his gains. Cold penitence, lame after-thought, With fear, d... | {
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47 | THE EXECUTION. | What shall he be, ere night? --Perchance a thing O'er which the raven flaps her funeral wing. --_Byron_.
It was broad daylight when the viscount was again awakened, and this time by the solemn tolling of the prison bell. He sprang out of bed and looked out of the window and recoiled in horror. There in the angle of... | {
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48 | NEWS FOR CLAUDIA. | Oh, in their deaths, remember they are men, Strain not revenge to wish their tortures grievous. --_Addison_.
Death--even the most serene and beautiful death, coming to a good old man at the close of a long, beneficent life--is awful. Sudden and violent death, falling upon a strong young man in the midst of his sins... | {
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49 | THE FATE OF FAUSTINA. | Oh, what a fate is guilt! How wild, how wretched! When apprehension can form naught but fears. --_Howard_.
Early the next morning Ishmael went over to the prison to see the governor relative to the removal of the body of the unhappy Vincent. But he was told that the old Earl of Hurstmonceux had arrived at noon on the... | {
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50 | LADY HURSTMONCEUX'S REVELATION. | For life, I prize it, As I weigh grief which I would spare; for honor, 'Tis a derivative from me to mine, And only that I stand for. --_Shakspeare_.
That same evening, while our party was assembled at tea in their private parlor, at the "Highlander," a letter was brought to Judge Merlin.
It was a formidable-l... | {
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51 | ISHMAEL'S ERRAND. | I tell thee, friend, I have not seen So likely an ambassador of love; A day in April never came so sweet, To show that costly summer was at hand. --_Shakespeare. _ Ishmael left Edinboro' by the earliest express train for London, where he arrived at nightfall.
He took a cab and drove immediately to Morley's H... | {
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52 | THE MEETING OF THE SEVERED PAIR. | For she is wise, if I can judge of her; And fair she is, if that mine eyes be true; And true she is as she hath proved herself; And therefore like herself, wise, fair, and true She shall be placed within my constant soul. --_Shakspeare_ Ishmael and Mr. Brudenell arose before the waiter called them. They dres... | {
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53 | HOME AGAIN. | Home again! home again! From a foreign shore! And oh, it fills my heart with joy To greet my friends once more.
Music sweet! music soft! Lingers round the place; And oh, I feel the childhood's charm, That time cannot efface! --_M. S. Pike_.
It had been decided in consultation between Judge Merlin and Ishm... | {
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54 | WHICH IS THE BRIDE? | His horse went on, hoof after hoof, Went on and never stopped, Till down behind the Mansion roof, At once, the red sun dropped.
What fond and wayward thoughts will slide Into a lover's head! -- "Oh, Heaven!" to himself he cried, "If--if she should be dead!" --_Wordsworth_.
Ishmael galloped along... | {
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55 | CONCLUSION. | How saidst thou! -Labor:-why his work is pleasure; His days are pleasantness, his nights are peace; He drinks of joys that neither cloy, nor cease, A well that gushes blessings without measure; Yea, and to crown the cup of peace with praise, Both God and man approve his works and ways. --_Martin F. Tupper... | {
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1 | None | The beginning--My early life and character--I thirst for adventure in foreign lands and go to sea.
Roving has always been, and still is, my ruling passion, the joy of my heart, the very sunshine of my existence. In childhood, in boyhood, and in man's estate, I have been a rover; not a mere rambler among the woody gle... | {
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2 | None | The departure--The sea--My companions--Some account of the wonderful sights we saw on the great deep--A dreadful storm and a frightful wreck.
It was a bright, beautiful, warm day when our ship spread her canvass to the breeze, and sailed for the regions of the south. Oh, how my heart bounded with delight as I listene... | {
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3 | None | The Coral Island--Our first cogitations after landing, and the result of them--We conclude that the island is uninhabited.
There is a strange and peculiar sensation experienced in recovering from a state of insensibility, which is almost indescribable; a sort of dreamy, confused consciousness; a half-waking half-slee... | {
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4 | None | We examine into our personal property, and make a happy discovery--Our island described--Jack proves himself to be learned and sagacious above his fellows--Curious discoveries--Natural lemonade!
We now seated ourselves upon a rock and began to examine into our personal property. When we reached the shore, after being... | {
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5 | None | Morning, and cogitations connected therewith--We luxuriate in the sea, try our diving powers, and make enchanting excursions among the coral groves at the bottom of the ocean--The wonders of the deep enlarged upon.
What a joyful thing it is to awaken, on a fresh glorious morning, and find the rising sun staring into ... | {
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6 | None | An excursion into the interior, in which we make many valuable and interesting discoveries--We get a dreadful fright--The bread-fruit tree--Wonderful peculiarity of some of the fruit trees--Signs of former inhabitants.
Our first care, after breakfast, was to place the few articles we possessed in the crevice of a roc... | {
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7 | None | Jack's ingenuity--We get into difficulties about fishing, and get out of them by a method which gives us a cold bath--Horrible encounter with a shark.
For several days after the excursion related in the last chapter we did not wander far from our encampment, but gave ourselves up to forming plans for the future and m... | {
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8 | None | The beauties of the bottom of the sea tempt Peterkin to dive--How he did it--More difficulties overcome--The water garden--Curious creatures of the sea--The tank--Candles missed very much, and the candle-nut tree discovered--Wonderful account of Peterkin's first voyage--Cloth found growing on a tree--A plan projected, ... | {
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9 | None | Prepare for a journey round the island--Sagacious reflections--Mysterious appearances and startling occurrences.
Scarcely had the sun shot its first ray across the bosom of the broad Pacific, when Jack sprang to his feet, and, hallooing in Peterkin's ear to awaken him, ran down the beach to take his customary dip in ... | {
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10 | None | Make discovery of many excellent roots and fruits--The resources of the Coral Island gradually unfolded--The banian-tree--Another tree which is supported by natural planks--Water-fowl found--A very remarkable discovery, and a very peculiar murder--We luxuriate on the fat of the land.
Our examination of the little val... | {
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11 | None | Effects of over-eating, and reflections thereon--Humble advice regarding cold water--The "horrible cry" accounted for--The curious birds called penguins--Peculiarity of the cocoa nut palm--Questions on the formation of coral islands--Mysterious footsteps--Strange discoveries and sad sights.
When we awoke on the follo... | {
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12 | None | Something wrong with the tank--Jack's wisdom and Peterkin's impertinence--Wonderful behaviour of a crab--Good wishes for those who dwell far from the sea--Jack commences to build a little boat.
Rest is sweet as well for the body as for the mind. During my long experience, amid the vicissitudes of a chequered life, I ... | {
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13 | None | Notable discovery at the spouting cliffs--The mysterious green monster explained--We are thrown into unutterable terror by the idea that Jack is drowned--The Diamond Cave.
"Come, Jack," cried Peterkin, one morning about three weeks after our return from our long excursion, "let's be jolly to-day, and do something vig... | {
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14 | None | Strange peculiarity of the tides--Also of the twilight--Peterkin's remarkable conduct in embracing a little pig and killing a big sow--Sage remarks on jesting--Also on love.
It was quite a relief to us to breathe the pure air and to enjoy the glad sunshine after our long ramble in the Diamond Cave, as we named it; fo... | {
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15 | None | Boat-building extraordinary--Peterkin tries his hand at cookery and fails most signally--The boat finished--Curious conversation with the cat, and other matters.
For many days after this Jack applied himself with unremitting assiduity to the construction of our boat, which at length began to look somewhat like one. B... | {
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16 | None | The boat launched--We visit the coral reef--The great breaker that never goes down--Coral insects--The way in which coral islands are made--The boat's sail--We tax our ingenuity to form fish-hooks--Some of the fish we saw--And a monstrous whale--Wonderful shower of little fish--Water-spouts.
It was a bright, clear, b... | {
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17 | None | A monster wave and its consequences--The boat lost and found--Peterkin's terrible accident--Supplies of food for a voyage in the boat--We visit Penguin Island, and are amazed beyond measure--Account of the penguins.
One day, not long after our little boat was finished, we were sitting on the rocks at Spouting Cliff, ... | {
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18 | None | An awful storm and its consequences--Narrow escape--A rock proves a sure foundation--A fearful night and a bright morning--Deliverance from danger.
It was evening before we left the island of the penguins. As we had made up our minds to encamp for the night on a small island, whereon grew a few cocoa-nut trees, which... | {
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19 | None | Shoemaking--The even tenor of our way suddenly interrupted--An unexpected visit and an appalling battle--We all become warriors, and Jack proves himself be a hero.
For many months after this we continued to live on our island in uninterrupted harmony and happiness. Sometimes we went out a-fishing in the lagoon, and s... | {
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20 | None | Intercourse with the savages--Cannibalism prevented--The slain are buried and the survivors depart, leaving us again alone on our Coral Island.
After the battle was over, the savages crowded round us and gazed at us in surprise, while they continued to pour upon us a flood of questions, which, being wholly unintellig... | {
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21 | None | Sagacious and moral remarks in regard to life--A sail! --An unexpected salute--The end of the black cat--A terrible dive--An incautious proceeding and a frightful catastrophe.
Life is a strange compound. Peterkin used to say of it, that it beat a druggist's shop all to sticks; for, whereas the first is a compound of ... | {
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22 | None | I fall into the hands of pirates--How they treated me, and what I said to them--The result of the whole ending in a melancholy separation and in a most unexpected gift.
My heart seemed to leap into my throat at the words; and, turning round, I beheld a man of immense stature, and fierce aspect regarding me with a smi... | {
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23 | None | Bloody Bill--Dark surmises--A strange sail, and a strange crew, and a still stranger cargo--New reasons for favouring missionaries--A murderous massacre, and thoughts thereon.
Three weeks after the conversation narrated in the last chapter, I was standing on the quarter-deck of the schooner watching the gambols of a ... | {
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24 | None | Bloody Bill is communicative and sagacious--Unpleasant prospects--Retrospective meditations interrupted by volcanic agency--The pirates negotiate with a Feejee chief--Various etceteras that are calculated to surprise and horrify.
It was many days after the events just narrated ere I recovered a little of my wonted sp... | {
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25 | None | The Sandal-wood party--Native children's games, somewhat surprising--Desperate amusements suddenly and fatally brought to a close--An old friend recognised--News--Romata's mad conduct.
Next day the wood-cutting party went ashore again, and I accompanied them as before. During the dinner hour I wandered into the woods... | {
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26 | None | Mischief brewing--My blood is made to run cold--Evil consultations and wicked resolves--Bloody Bill attempts to do good and fails--The attack--Wholesale murder--The flight--The escape.
Next morning I awoke with a feverish brow and a feeling of deep depression at my heart; and the more I thought on my unhappy fate, th... | {
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27 | None | Reflections--The wounded man--The squall--True consolation--Death.
There is a power of endurance in human beings, both in their bodies and in their minds, which, I have often thought, seems to be wonderfully adapted and exactly proportioned to the circumstances in which individuals may happen to be placed,--a power w... | {
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28 | None | Alone on the deep--Necessity the mother of invention--A valuable book discovered--Natural phenomenon--A bright day in my history.
It was with feelings of awe, not unmingled with fear, that I now seated myself on the cabin sky-light and gazed upon the rigid features of my late comrade, while my mind wandered over his ... | {
"id": "646"
} |
29 | None | The effect of a cannon-shot--A happy reunion of a somewhat moist nature--Retrospects and explanations--An awful dive--New plans--The last of the Coral Island.
I almost fell upon the deck with the tumult of mingled emotions that filled my heart, as I gazed ardently towards my beautiful island. It was still many miles ... | {
"id": "646"
} |
30 | None | The voyage--The island, and a consultation in which danger is scouted as a thing unworthy of consideration--Rats and cats--The native teacher--Awful revelations--Wonderful effects of Christianity.
Our voyage during the next two weeks was most interesting and prosperous. The breeze continued generally fair, and at all... | {
"id": "646"
} |
31 | None | A strange and bloody battle--The lion bearded in his den--Frightful scenes of cruelty, and fears for the future.
We had ascertained from the teacher the direction to the spot on which the battle was to be fought, and after a walk of two hours reached it. The summit of a bare hill was the place chosen; for, unlike mos... | {
"id": "646"
} |
32 | None | An unexpected discovery, and a bold, reckless defiance, with its consequences--Plans of escape, and heroic resolves.
When we returned to the shore, and related to our friend what had passed, he was greatly distressed, and groaned in spirit; but we had not sat long in conversation, when we were interrupted by the arri... | {
"id": "646"
} |
33 | None | The flight--The pursuit--Despair and its results--The lion bearded in his den again--Awful danger threatened and wonderfully averted--A terrific storm.
As the time for our meditated flight drew near, we became naturally very fearful lest our purpose should be discovered, and we spent the whole of the following day in... | {
"id": "646"
} |
34 | None | Imprisonment--Sinking hopes--Unexpected freedom to more than one, and in more senses than one.
For a long long month we remained in our dark and dreary prison, during which dismal time we did not see the face of a human being, except that of the silent savage who brought us our daily food.
There have been one or tw... | {
"id": "646"
} |
35 | None | Conclusion.
To part is the lot of all mankind. The world is a scene of constant leave-taking, and the hands that grasp in cordial greeting to-day, are doomed ere long to unite for the last time, when the quivering lips pronounce the word--"Farewell." It is a sad thought, but should we on that account exclude it from ... | {
"id": "646"
} |
1 | LOVE UNKNOWN | From its long sweep over the unbroken prairie a heavier blast than usual shook the slight frame house. The windows rattled in the casements, as if shivering in their dumb way in the December storm. So open and defective was the dwelling in its construction, that eddying currents of cold air found admittance at various ... | {
"id": "6627"
} |
2 | LOVE KNOWN | Hour after hour passed. The storm was dying away, and at times, through broken rifts in the clouds, stars would gleam out. Instead of the continued roar and rush, the wind blew in gusts at longer intervals, and nature seemed like a passionate child that had cried itself to sleep. The fitful blasts were the involuntary ... | {
"id": "6627"
} |
3 | LAUNCHED | Scarcely was the last word spoken when a sudden glory filled the room. So brilliant was the light that mother and son were startled. Then they saw what had been unnoted before, that day had broken, and that the sun, emerging from a single dark cloud, was shining, full-orbed, into the apartment with a light that, reflec... | {
"id": "6627"
} |
4 | COLD WATER | The train, somewhat impeded by snow, landed Dennis in Chicago at about nine in the evening. In his pocket he had ten dollars--ample seed corn, he believed, for a golden harvest. This large sum was expected to provide for him till he should find a situation and receive the first instalment of salary. He would inform his... | {
"id": "6627"
} |
5 | A HORNET'S NEST | Dennis awoke greatly refreshed and strengthened. For half an hour he lay quietly thinking over the scenes of the preceding day; something of his old anger returned, but he compressed his lips, and, with a face expressing the most resolute purpose, determined that the day before him should tell a different story. Every ... | {
"id": "6627"
} |
6 | "STARVE THEN!" | Dennis now followed the natural impulse to go to some distant part of the city, entirely away from the region that had become so hateful to him.
Putting the trunk on the front of a street-car, he rode on till he was in the heart of the south-side district, the great business centre. He took his trunk into a roomy har... | {
"id": "6627"
} |
7 | A GOOD SAMARITAN | Dennis was too good a Christian, and had received too deep a lesson in his father's case, to become bitter, angry, and defiant, even if he had believed that God was against him. He would have felt that it was simply his duty to submit--to endure patiently. Somehow Until to-day his heart had refused to believe that God ... | {
"id": "6627"
} |
8 | YAHCOB BUNK | Before retiring, Dennis as usual took his Bible from his trunk to read a chapter. He was now in a very different mood from that of a few hours ago. The suggestion of his bar-room acquaintance was a light upon his way. And with one of Dennis's age and temperament, even a small hope is potent. He was eager for the coming... | {
"id": "6627"
} |
9 | LAND AT LAST | During the latter part of a busy afternoon, Dennis came to a spacious, elegant store before which the snow lay untouched save as trodden by passers-by. Over the high arched doorway was the legend in gilt letters, "Art Building"; and as far as a mere warehouse for beautiful things could deserve the title, this place did... | {
"id": "6627"
} |
10 | THE NEW BROOM | The following Sabbath was a bright winter day without, but bright summer in Dennis's heart. He inquired his way to a neighboring church, and every word of prayer, praise, and truth fell on a glad, grateful spirit. Returning, he wrote a long letter to his mother, telling her all he had passed through, especially dwellin... | {
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11 | TOO MUCH ALIKE | One of the duties that Dennis enjoyed most was the opening of new goods. With the curiosity and pleasure of a child he would unpack the treasures of art consigned to his employer, and when a number of boxes were left at the front door he was eager to see their contents. During his first three weeks at the store, there ... | {
"id": "6627"
} |
12 | BLUE BLOOD | Dennis's mind was a chaos of conflicting feelings. The picture had deeply interested him, and so did the beautiful girl that it by strange coincidence so strongly resembled. It could not be otherwise with one of his beauty-loving nature. And yet the impression made by the face in the painting--of something wrong, disco... | {
"id": "6627"
} |
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