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Becke Louis. Pacific Tales
Pacific Tales
Table of Contents
An Island Memory: English Bob
In the Old, Beachcombing Days
Mrs. Malleson’s Rival
Prescott of Naura
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2
Chester’s “Cross”
Hollis’s Debt: A Tale of the North-West Pacific
The Arm of Luno Capál
In a Samoan Village
Collier: “The Blackbirder”
In the Evening
The Great Crushing at Mount Sugar-Bag
The Shadows of the Dead
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2
“For We Were Friends Always”
Nikoa
The Strange White Woman of Mādurŏ
The Obstinacy of Mrs. Tatton
Dr. Ludwig Schwalbe, South Sea Savant
The Treasure of Don Bruno
THE END
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Louis Becke
Published by Good Press, 2021
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But the trader fought for his honour’s sake and the pride of the English race.
“Captain Branden, you surprise me—nay, more, you pain me. This young man”—and he placed his large, coarse hand on the head of an undersized native, clothed like himself, in a long black coat and wearing a stovepipe hat with a wide, battered rim—“you do, indeed, pain me when you speak of this pious young man—one of Gawd’s ministers—as a fool.”
