The Pathfinder or, the Inland seaAegitas, 19. 8. 2016 - Počet stran: 415 The plan of this tale suggested itself to the writer many years since, though the details are altogether of recent invention. The idea of associating seamen and savages in incidents that might be supposed characteristic of the Great Lakes having been mentioned to a Publisher, the latter obtained something like a pledge from the Author to carry out the design at some future day, which pledge is now tardily and imperfectly redeemed. |
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... better rely on my youth and feebleness," said the girl, smiling, while her color heightened under her feelings. "Among Christian men, a woman's best guard is her claim to their protection. I know nothing of arms, and wish to live in ...
... better rely on my youth and feebleness," said the girl, smiling, while her color heightened under her feelings. "Among Christian men, a woman's best guard is her claim to their protection. I know nothing of arms, and wish to live in ...
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... better of him for his readiness; though I suppose the boy has run no great risk, after all." "Only the risk of being shot from a cover, as he forced the canoe up a swift rift, or turned an elbow in the stream, with his eyes fastened on ...
... better of him for his readiness; though I suppose the boy has run no great risk, after all." "Only the risk of being shot from a cover, as he forced the canoe up a swift rift, or turned an elbow in the stream, with his eyes fastened on ...
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... better be drifting down this said current of yours while we may. Magnet dear, are you not ready to get under way?" Magnet started, blushed brightly, and made her preparations for immediate departure. Not a syllable of the discourse just ...
... better be drifting down this said current of yours while we may. Magnet dear, are you not ready to get under way?" Magnet started, blushed brightly, and made her preparations for immediate departure. Not a syllable of the discourse just ...
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... better acquainted. We shall find out whether his flint will strike fire; and he may come to know something of frontier tricks." Young Jasper smiled, for he was not averse to fun, and had been a little touched by Cap's superciliousness ...
... better acquainted. We shall find out whether his flint will strike fire; and he may come to know something of frontier tricks." Young Jasper smiled, for he was not averse to fun, and had been a little touched by Cap's superciliousness ...
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... better." "Not in the eyes of the daughter, perhaps, friend Pathfinder;" put in Cap, whose spirits began to revive when he found the water once more flowing around him. "The thirty years that you mention are not often thought to be an ...
... better." "Not in the eyes of the daughter, perhaps, friend Pathfinder;" put in Cap, whose spirits began to revive when he found the water once more flowing around him. "The thirty years that you mention are not often thought to be an ...
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