Category: Adventure
Another long spell of the sea, including several voyages and some stirring adventures, was before Derval now, with a protracted absence from Britain. The ship was not getting ready for sea, so Captain Talbot was on shore, when a hansom cab deposited Derval and his belongings c...
Another long spell of the sea, including several voyages and some stirring adventures, was before Derval now, with a protracted absence from Britain. The ship was not getting re...
4. CHAPTER IV."Oh, no; am I not with _you_?" answered the girl sweetly and simply, as she drew off a glove and let the water slip through her slender white fingers, as the boat, urged by the...
2. CHAPTER II."He didn't like seeing the guns cast loose, and the powder and small arms brought on deck, this precious first mate of ours," said Joe Grummet one day to Derval, when they were...
6. CHAPTER VI.As the squire of Finglecombe, Rookleigh was, in every way, a more eligible _parti_ than his sailor brother; thus, confident in having eventually the countenance of Lord Oakhampt...
5. CHAPTER V.Derval was back to his old work on the sea, but now it had lost all zest, and even the love for and hope of adventure had gone out of him. His whole soul and existence seemed to...
7. CHAPTER VII.During the long voyage of nearly three thousand miles to Batavia, Derval's health and strength came back, but not his old elasticity of spirit. He had ever one thought--Clara! a...
3. CHAPTER III.After being struck down by Reeve Rudderhead, in the merciless way we have described, Derval lay long insensible, and when his thoughts began to turn again to earth, he was haunt...