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Miranda of the Balcony A Story

By Alfred Edward Woodley Mason

2020-06-25 22:00:07

[...]his story was in no wise believed. To all of Isaacs's objections M. Fournier was impervious, and he was at last allowed to embark. "Now!" cried Zebedee Isaacs, as the lugger rose. M. Fournier gave a pathetic look backwards to the land, shut his ... Read more
[...]his story was in no wise believed. To all of Isaacs's objections M. Fournier was impervious, and he was at last allowed to embark. "Now!" cried Zebedee Isaacs, as the lugger rose. M. Fournier gave a pathetic look backwards to the land, shut his eyes and jumped. Isaacs caught and set him upon the floor of the boat, where he stood clutching the runners. He saw the landing-steps dizzily rush past him up to the sky like a Jacob's ladder, and then as dizzily shut downwards below him like a telescope. The boat was pushed off. It rounded the pier-head and beat out on its first tack, across the Road. M. Fournier crouched down under the shelter [...].  Less

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File size245.605 KB
Print pages110
PublisherPublic Domain Book
LanguageEnglish
ISBN978-1500399696
Alfred Edward Woodley Mason (7 May 1865 – 22 November 1948) was an English author and politician. He is best remembered for his 1902 novel of courage and cowardice in wartime, The Four Feathers, and...

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