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Arthur Ransome. Missee Lee
Missee Lee
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. THE HUNDREDTH PORT
CHAPTER II. LOSS OF THE “WILD CAT”
CHAPTER III. WHAT HAPPENED TO “SWALLOW”
CHAPTER IV. WHAT HAPPENED TO “AMAZON”
I “TALKEE ENGLISH BIMEBY”
II. THE PIRATE JUNK
III. BRIEF HOUR OF FREEDOM
CHAPTER V “HIC LIBER EST MEUS”
CHAPTER VI. IT’S THEM!
CHAPTER VII. THE SHADOW OF A MONKEY
CHAPTER VIII. TEN GONG TAICOON
CHAPTER IX. PIRATE SUPPER
CHAPTER X. ON THE ROAD AGAIN
CHAPTER XI. DRAGON TOWN
CHAPTER XII. TWENTY-TWO GONG TAICOON
CHAPTER XIII. MISS LEE EXPLAINS
CHAPTER XIV. CAMBRIDGE BREAKFAST AND AN S.O.S
CHAPTER XV. MISS LEE BUYS CAPTAIN FLINT
CHAPTER XVI. CAPTAIN FLINT JOINS THE DUNCES
CHAPTER XVII. FREE BUT PRISONERS
CHAPTER XVIII. MODEL STUDENTS
CHAPTER XIX. HOLIDAY VOYAGE
CHAPTER XX. CAPTAIN FLINT GETS BACK HIS SEXTANT
CHAPTER XXI. OLD SEAMAN WU SEES IT
CHAPTER XXII. MONEY RETURNED
CHAPTER XXIII. MISS LEE AGREES WITH HER COUNSELLOR
CHAPTER XXIV. THE DRAGON FEAST
CHAPTER XXV. LITTLE DRAGON ALONE
CHAPTER XXVI. ONLY ONE WAY OUT
CHAPTER XXVII. THE PATH OF DUTY
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Arthur Ransome
Published by Good Press, 2021
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Side by side the little boats floated, while the crew of the Wild Cat watched and listened to the burning of the old schooner. Three parts round the world they had sailed in her. She had become almost part of themselves. At the beginning Captain Flint had had a paid hand to help him, but for a long time he had found that with the six of them he needed no one else. And now she was going. And there they were afloat in the two dinghies watching her burn.
They had had no time to be frightened. There had been too much to do. Even now, when they could do no more and lay there with the crackling roar of the burning vessel in their ears, their minds were more on the new life that was beginning than on the old that had come to so melancholy an end. If she had caught fire in an English harbour, it would have seemed the end of everything. But here it was not the end. They had still to get home and home was many thousand miles away. This was not the end and they were thinking not of days gone by or of days to come but of what they had to do that very night. “If you’ve got a burn on your hand, don’t lick it, Roger,” said Susan. “I’ve got some tannic jelly in the first-aid box.”
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