# The Smuggler: A Tale. Volumes I-III

Author: James, G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford), 1801?-1860

Genre: Category: Historical Novels

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/39531

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Smuggler%3A+A+Tale.+Volumes+I-III+James&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

It is wonderful what improvements have taken place in clocks and watches during the last half-century; how accurately the escapements are constructed, how delicately the springs are formed, how easily the wheels move, and what good time they keep. After all, society is but a clock, a very complicated piece of mechanism; and it, too, has undergone, in many countries, the same improvements that have taken place in the little ticking machines that we put in our pockets, or those greater indicators of our progress towards eternity that we hang upon our walls. From the wooden clock, with its weight and catgut, to the exquisite chronometer which varies only by a second or two in the course of t...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER XII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-smuggler-a-tale-volumes-i-iii-39531/chapters/25/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-smuggler-a-tale-volumes-i-iii-39531/chapters/24/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-smuggler-a-tale-volumes-i-iii-39531/chapters/30/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-smuggler-a-tale-volumes-i-iii-39531/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-smuggler-a-tale-volumes-i-iii-39531/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-smuggler-a-tale-volumes-i-iii-39531/chapters/36/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-smuggler-a-tale-volumes-i-iii-39531/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-smuggler-a-tale-volumes-i-iii-39531/chapters/26/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-smuggler-a-tale-volumes-i-iii-39531/chapters/27/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-smuggler-a-tale-volumes-i-iii-39531/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-smuggler-a-tale-volumes-i-iii-39531/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-smuggler-a-tale-volumes-i-iii-39531/chapters/34/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-smuggler-a-tale-volumes-i-iii-39531/chapters/38/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-smuggler-a-tale-volumes-i-iii-39531/chapters/23/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-smuggler-a-tale-volumes-i-iii-39531/chapters/21/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-smuggler-a-tale-volumes-i-iii-39531/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-smuggler-a-tale-volumes-i-iii-39531/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-smuggler-a-tale-volumes-i-iii-39531/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-smuggler-a-tale-volumes-i-iii-39531/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-smuggler-a-tale-volumes-i-iii-39531/chapters/28/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-smuggler-a-tale-volumes-i-iii-39531/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-smuggler-a-tale-volumes-i-iii-39531/chapters/20/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-smuggler-a-tale-volumes-i-iii-39531/chapters/35/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-smuggler-a-tale-volumes-i-iii-39531/chapters/33/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-smuggler-a-tale-volumes-i-iii-39531/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-smuggler-a-tale-volumes-i-iii-39531/chapters/18/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-smuggler-a-tale-volumes-i-iii-39531/chapters/29/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-smuggler-a-tale-volumes-i-iii-39531/chapters/37/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-smuggler-a-tale-volumes-i-iii-39531/chapters/31/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-smuggler-a-tale-volumes-i-iii-39531/chapters/17/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-smuggler-a-tale-volumes-i-iii-39531/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-smuggler-a-tale-volumes-i-iii-39531/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-smuggler-a-tale-volumes-i-iii-39531/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-smuggler-a-tale-volumes-i-iii-39531/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-smuggler-a-tale-volumes-i-iii-39531/chapters/22/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-smuggler-a-tale-volumes-i-iii-39531/chapters/32/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-smuggler-a-tale-volumes-i-iii-39531/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-smuggler-a-tale-volumes-i-iii-39531/chapters/19/index.md)