The Maid of Sker, Volume 1W. Blackwood and sons, 1872 - 330 páginas I am but an ancient fisherman upon the coast of Glamorganshire, with work enough of my own to do, and trouble enough of my own to heed, in getting my poor living. Yet no peace there is for me among my friends and neighbours, unless I will set to and try-as they bid me twice a-day perhaps-whether I cannot tell the rights of a curious adventure which it pleased Providence should happen, off and on, amidst us, now for a good many years, and with many ins and outs to it. They assure me, also, that all good people who can read and write for ten, or it may be twenty, miles around the place I live in, will buy my book-if I can make it-at a higher price, perhaps, per lb., than they would give me even for sewin, which are the very best fish I catch: and hence provision may be found for the old age and infirmities, now gaining upon me, every time I try to go out fishing. |
Outras edições - Ver tudo
Palavras e frases frequentes
a-week Alcestis ancient asked Bardie Barnstaple boat Braunton Burrows Braunton road Bunny Captain Drake carronades chance child Chowne's course Coxswain cried dare David Llewellyn dear desire doubt Drake Bampfylde duty everything eyes fear feel fellow felt ferry fylde gaze half hand happened hear heard heart Heaviside Hezekiah holy orders honour hope horse Isabel keep ketch knew laugh legs look Lord luck manner Master midshipman mind Mother Jones Nanette Narnton Court nature never Nevertheless night noble Parson Chowne Parson Jack perhaps pipe poor Porthcawl Rambone Reverence river Rose of Devon round Royal Navy scarcely seemed seen sense ship Sir Philip Bampfylde Sker Sker House spite stood sure tell thing thou thought told took turn understrapper walk watch whole wife women word young lady