George Alfred Townsend
The Entailed Hat
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Excerpt: ...filled with shillings at one end, and fifteen golden guineas at the other; they rolled out through the decayed filigree, rusted, probably, by the rain percolating through the chimney, and the purse crumbled to iron-mould in his hand. 'The Lord is my shepherd,' said the sailor, reverently; 'I shall not want. He leadeth me by the still waters.' How beautiful Ellenory says it. Look thar at the waters of the Nanticoke, beautiful as silver. Lord, make 'em pure waters an' free, to every pore creatur! To who! to who! screamed a voice out of the hollow chimney. Well, answered Jimmy, hardly excited, I ain't partickler. Ha! I thought I knew…
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Excerpt: ...filled with shillings at one end, and fifteen golden guineas at the other; they rolled out through the decayed filigree, rusted, probably, by the rain percolating through the chimney, and the purse crumbled to iron-mould in his hand. 'The Lord is my shepherd,' said the sailor, reverently; 'I shall not want. He leadeth me by the still waters.' How beautiful Ellenory says it. Look thar at the waters of the Nanticoke, beautiful as silver. Lord, make 'em pure waters an' free, to every pore creatur! To who! to who! screamed a voice out of the hollow chimney. Well, answered Jimmy, hardly excited, I ain't partickler. Ha! I thought I knew you, Barney, he contin Pg 289 ued, as an owl fluttered out and hopped up a ruined stairway. Now, British money ain't coined by Uncle Sam; what is the date? I can make figgers out easy: Eighteen hundred and fifteen!' I was about to do Ebenezer Johnson the onjustice of saying that he'd sold his country out to ole Admiral Cockburn, but the war was done when this money was coined. Whose was it? He removed more carefully some of the bricks, to put his hand in the hollow depository left there, and, feeling around and higher up, brought out the bronze hilt of a sword, on which was a name. Who would have thought this was a house of learnin'? Jimmy said, dubiously. I can't read it. By smoke! maybe they've murdered somebody yer. I reckon he was British. Ellenory kin read it, if I live to see her agin. There was nothing more, and, as he left the rotting old house, a crash and a cloud of smoke rose up behind him, and the chimney fell into the middle of the floor. With the crane's sharp wrought-iron point and long leverage the pungy captain succeeded, after tedious efforts, in breaking the links of the chain and also in removing the linked cannon-ball from the woman's foot, but he could not remove the iron band and link around her ankle. God bless you! exclaimed the woman. It's a sin to say so, but I feel as if I...
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- ISBN: 978-1-77045-234-3
- EAN: 9781770452343
- Produktnummer: 14787315
- Verlag: Books LLC, Reference Series
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 180 S.
- Masse: H24.6 cm x B18.9 cm x D0.9 cm 361 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 361
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