Category: Historical Novels
It could not but occur to the priest and to his ward, unaccustomed as they were to encounter dangers, that their position was one which was in itself highly, if not imminently perilous. There they were, thrown in an open vessel on the ocean, and sent on a voyage which was to c...
It could not but occur to the priest and to his ward, unaccustomed as they were to encounter dangers, that their position was one which was in itself highly, if not imminently p...
2. CHAPTER XVII.The grey dawn of the morning found the crew of the man-of-war busily at work. The unwieldly machines clanked and reclanked as the sturdy sailors heartily threw their whole stren...
3. CHAPTER XVIII.After he had been defeated by the untoward accident of the shark in his attempt to rescue his captive chief, Lorenzo betook himself on board the schooner, a victim to disappoint...
4. CHAPTER XIX.“If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing That none but fools would keep; a breath thou art, Servile to all the skyey influences, That dost this habitation where thou keepest Hourly...
5. CHAPTER XX.On jumping into the sea, Appadocca swam dexterously after the pitcher, which he had thrown before him; then resting one hand upon it, and moving the other easily through the wat...
6. CHAPTER XXI.Appadocca, under the care of the fair Venezuelan, was carried into an extensive chamber, which was much more comfortable than any one would have imagined any part of the house c...
7. CHAPTER XXII.The night was far advanced, when Appadocca undertook to carry into execution, the design which he had formed of leaving the Rancha. He cautiously went out of the apartment which...
8. CHAPTER XXIII.After Lorenzo had been satisfactorily informed, by the confessions of the midshipman, with regard to the safety of his chief, deeming it no longer necessary to hazard any nearer...
9. CHAPTER XXIII.At early dawn on the morning that followed the departure of Appadocca, Feliciana was sitting in the principal apartment of the Rancha. She was occupying her favourite chair by t...
10. CHAPTER XXIV.“How would you be, If He, who is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are? O, think on that; And mercy then will breathe between your lips, Like men new made.”
11. CHAPTER XXV.“Avaunt! and quit my sight! let the earth Hide thee! Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold! Thou hast no speculation in those eyes Which thou dost glare with.”
12. CHAPTER XXVI.It was dark, on a certain evening, to which the attention of the reader is now called, when, amidst the rocks and bushes of the mountainous district that flanks Port-of-Spain on...
13. CHAPTER XXVII.Appadocca stood for a while, and watched his men, who, in military order, were marching down the dark and solitary road. When even their footsteps could no longer be heard; he c...
14. CHAPTER XXVIII.It was not until an early hour of the morning, when Mrs. Wilmington recovered from her swoon, that it was possible to give any alarm of the outrage that had been committed at th...
15. CHAPTER XXIX.When Appadocca with his party had gained the schooner, he immediately ordered the prisoner Willmington to be taken to the torture-room and to be there kept in custody: at the sa...
16. CHAPTER XXX.“If so, Lorenzo, the honours and greatness of men are scarcely to be longed after. The pursuits that engross us during an entire lifetime, and lead us too frequently, to sacrifi...
17. CHAPTER XXXI.“Of that, and all the progress, more and less, Resolvedly more leisure shall express: All yet seems well; and if it end so meet, The bitter past, more welcome is the sweet.”