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Allen Raine. Torn Sails: A Tale of a Welsh Village
Torn Sails: A Tale of a Welsh Village
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. MWNTSEISON
CHAPTER II. HUGH MORGAN
CHAPTER III. MARI "VONE."
CHAPTER IV. GWEN'S "BIDDING."
CHAPTER V. TRAETH-Y-DARAN
CHAPTER VI. CHANGES
CHAPTER VII. A WEDDING CALL
CHAPTER VIII. CONFIDENCES
CHAPTER IX. GWEN'S REBELLION
CHAPTER X. HUGH'S SUSPICIONS
CHAPTER XI. THE STORM
CHAPTER XII. UNREST
CHAPTER XIII. DOUBTS AND FEARS
CHAPTER XIV. THE MILL
CHAPTER XV. TORN SAILS
CHAPTER XVI. PEACE
CHAPTER XVII. THE MILL IN THE MOONLIGHT
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Allen Raine
Published by Good Press, 2021
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"Oh, dear, dear! its 'n'wncwl Jos! Oh, dyr anwl, I have laughed till my sides ache."
"Yes, there's a girl she is to laugh," said 'n'wncwl Jos, putting in the stops with his wooden leg, "in spite of those serious brown eyes of hers. Hegh, hegh, hegh! I'll back her for a good laugh against any other girl in Mwntseison." (Stump, stump.) "I was only telling her how I lost my eye long ago, and that's how she takes it! Hegh, hegh! true as I am here. I was in the Bay of Loango, out there in Africa, me sitting on the edge of the ship, The Queen of the South, Captain Lucas, and whew! back I went among the sharks. In a moment an old ghost of a fellow darted after me. 'Here I'm going,' says I to myself, 'safe to Davey Jones' locker, and in a nasty conveyance, too!' (There she is laughing again, look!) The shark stopped a minute just to take a good look at me, when what should I feel but a sharp hook in my eye. I knew at once 'twas the rope and the hook from the ship, and Diwedd anwl![9] I'd rather have forty hooks in my eye than be swallowed by that old white ghost. I was reaching the sandy bottom just as the hook caught me, and partly with the pain, and partly with joy, I danced and floundered about ('twas before I lost my leg) and kicked up such a shindy, that I made a thick cloud of sand about me, and the old shark backed a bit, and I tugged the rope, and they pulled me up."
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