The Maid of SkerWilliam Blackwood, 1895 - 471 páginas The Maid of Sker is set at the end of the 18th century, and the story is told by Davy Llewellyn, an old fisherman. The story concerns a two-year-old girl who drifts in a boat onto a beach in Glamorganshire in the calm before a storm. The little girl calls herself Bardie. Llewellyn is tempted to keep the girl, but decides to give her up and keeps the boat for himself. He quarters the pretty child in a simple, but well-to-do, household in his neighbourhood. As she grows up he dotes upon her so far as he can. He watches anxiously over her fortunes, partly or principally because he thinks his own may be bound up with them. It is clear from the refinement of the girl's manners, and from the fineness of her clothes she was washed ashore in, that she is no common child. |
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... round tower of stone domed over the heart of it , to which a covered way goes down , with shallow steps irre- gular . If it were not for this plan , the sand would whelm the whole of it over ; even as it has overwhelmed all the ...
... round tower of stone domed over the heart of it , to which a covered way goes down , with shallow steps irre- gular . If it were not for this plan , the sand would whelm the whole of it over ; even as it has overwhelmed all the ...
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... round about Pool Tavan , and down below the old house at Sker . CHAPTER III . THE FISH ARE AS HUNGRY AS HE IS . To fish at Sker had always been a matter of some risk and con- flict ; inasmuch as Evan Thomas , who lived in the ancient ...
... round about Pool Tavan , and down below the old house at Sker . CHAPTER III . THE FISH ARE AS HUNGRY AS HE IS . To fish at Sker had always been a matter of some risk and con- flict ; inasmuch as Evan Thomas , who lived in the ancient ...
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... round on their tails with a sweep , when they could swim no further - nevertheless it was all in vain , for I blocked them in with a mole of kelp , weighted with heavy pebbles , and then baled them out at my pleasure . Now the afternoon ...
... round on their tails with a sweep , when they could swim no further - nevertheless it was all in vain , for I blocked them in with a mole of kelp , weighted with heavy pebbles , and then baled them out at my pleasure . Now the afternoon ...
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... round pool fills with sea ( pouring in through the gate of rock ) , and the waves push merrily onward , then a mighty stir arises , and a different race of birds - those which love a swimming dinner- swoop upon Pool Tavan . Here is the ...
... round pool fills with sea ( pouring in through the gate of rock ) , and the waves push merrily onward , then a mighty stir arises , and a different race of birds - those which love a swimming dinner- swoop upon Pool Tavan . Here is the ...
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... round this was my line of good hemp , twisted evenly , so that if any fish came who could master me , and pull me off the rocks almost , I could indulge him with some slack by unreeving a fathom of line . At the end of the pole was a ...
... round this was my line of good hemp , twisted evenly , so that if any fish came who could master me , and pull me off the rocks almost , I could indulge him with some slack by unreeving a fathom of line . At the end of the pole was a ...
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