Opis: Fate Knocks at the Door - Comfort Will Levington

Excerpt from Fate Knocks at the Door: A Novel

Andrew Bedient, at the age of seventeen, in a single afternoon, - indeed, in one moment of a single afternoon, - performed an action which brought him financial abundance for his mature years. Although this narrative less concerns the boy Bedient than the man as he approaches twice seventeen, the action is worthy of account, beyond the riches that it brought, because it seems to draw him into somewhat clearer vision from the shadows of a very strange boyhood.

April, 1895, the Truxton, of which Andrew was cook, found herself becalmed in the China Sea, midway between Manila and Hong Kong, her nose to the North. She was a smart clipper of sixty tons burden, with a slightly uptilted stern, and as clever a line forward as a pleasure yacht. She was English, comparatively new, and, properly used by the weather, was as swift and sprightly of service as an affectionate woman. Her master was Captain Carreras, a tubby little man of forty-five, bald, modest, and known among the shipping as "a perfect lady." He wore a skull-cap out of port; and as constantly, except during meals, carried one of a set of rarely-colored meerschaum-bowls, to which were attach able, bamboo-stems, amber-tipped and of various lengths.

The little Captain was fastidious in dress, wearing soft shirts of white silk, fine duck trousers and scented silk handkerchiefs, which he carried in his left hand with the meerschaum-bowl.

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Szczegóły: Fate Knocks at the Door - Comfort Will Levington

Nazwa: Fate Knocks at the Door A Novel (Classic Reprint)
Autor: Comfort Will Levington
Wydawnictwo: FB &c Ltd
Kod paskowy: 9781440075780
Języki: angielski
Ilość stron: 394
Format: 15.2x22.9cm
Oprawa: Miękka

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