Edward Barry

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Becke Louis. Edward Barry

CHAPTER I "EDWARD BARRY—'DEAD BROKE.'"

CHAPTER II. THE MAYNARDS

CHAPTER III. THE BRIG MAHINA

CHAPTER IV. MR. BILLY WARNER, OF PONAPÉ

CHAPTER V. VELO, THE SAMOAN, PROPHESIES

CHAPTER VI. IN ARRECIFOS LAGOON

CHAPTER VII. ALICE TRACEY

CHAPTER VIII. MRS. TRACEY TELLS HER STRANGE STORY

CHAPTER IX "ALLA GOODA COMRADE."

CHAPTER X. A REPENTANCE

CHAPTER XI. CAPTAIN RAWLINGS PROPOSES "A LITTLE CELEBRATION."

CHAPTER XII. BARRY AND VELO DISCOURSE ON MARRIAGE

CHAPTER XIII "THE LITTLE CELEBRATION" COMES OFF

CHAPTER XIV. BARRY HOISTS THE FLAG OF ENGLAND

CHAPTER XV. FAREWELL TO ARRECIFOS

CHAPTER XVI. EXIT RAWLINGS AND THE GREEK

CHAPTER XVII. BARRY RECEIVES A "STIFFENER."

CHAPTER XVIII. ON BOARD THE NEW BARQUE

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A quarter of an hour's walk through the dimly lighted and squalid streets which intersect Miller's Point and Church Hill brought Barry out into the glare and noise of the lower part of the principal thoroughfares of the city, which, boisterous as was the night, was fairly thronged with the poorer class of people engaged in their Saturday night's shopping.

Pushing his way through the crowd in no very gentle manner, for he was both wet and hungry, he at last reached a respectable-looking second-class hotel at the corner of George and Bridge streets. The house was much frequented by men of his own position in the merchant service, and, as he walked into the comfortable parlour and stood by the fire to warm himself, he was greeted by all the occupants of the room—four decently dressed mates or second mates.

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Barry looked at it admiringly for a minute or two, and then said,—

"Do not offer it to a pawnbroker again. I should think it is worth at least twenty pounds. There is a famous collector in Sydney—a Colonel Maclean; do you know him?"

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