Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
Paulett now exerted himself to collect all the diamonds that remained without owners in the neighbourhood. First he visited his own forsaken home, and took thence the jewels, which he had neglected in his retreat from it, but which were now as precious as water. He found no gr...
The exhausted family toiled with difficulty over the remaining passage to what had been the mainland, and reached a village on the former coast, under a roof of which they enter...
4. Chapter 4Time passed on, and there was no change in the state of things. Still an unclouded sun--still the deep, intense blue sky--winds on the earth but no moisture; and the whole frame...
3. Chapter 3In that time of trouble and of unexampled events, the mind received impressions in a different manner from what it had ever done before. The stern gloom that hung over the futur...
1. Chapter 1Paulett now exerted himself to collect all the diamonds that remained without owners in the neighbourhood. First he visited his own forsaken home, and took thence the jewels, wh...
2. Chapter 2Meantime, poor Ellen waited anxiously in the cavern, and as soon as the first possible moment for Paulett's return was passed, her fears grew strong. There was so much danger fo...