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I suppose praiseworthy motives are a sufficient justification almost for anything. What could be more commendable in the abstract than a girl’s determination that “poor papa” should not be worried,
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I suppose praiseworthy motives are a sufficient justification almost for anything. What could be more commendable in the abstract than a girl’s determination that “poor papa” should not be worried,
The affair of the brig Bonito was bound to cause a sensation in Makassar, the prettiest, and perhaps the cleanest-loo…
In respect of the next seven weeks, all that is necessary to say is, first, that old Nelson (or Nielsen) failed in pay…
A few weeks later, coming early one morning into Singapore, from a journey to the southward, I saw the brig lying at a…
For , pray, who was Heemskirk? You shall see at once how unreasonable this dread of Heemskirk. . . . Certainly, his na…
One day—and that day was many years ago now—I received a long, chatty letter from one of my old chums and fellow-wande…
The skipper of the Sephora had a thin red whisker all round his face, and the sort of complexion that goes with hair …
On my right hand there were lines of fishing-stakes resembling a mysterious system of half-submerged bamboo fences, in…
Either would have been perfectly consistent with my feelings. I gazed at the door, hesitating, but in the end I did n…
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