A Modern Telemachus

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Charlotte M. Yonge. A Modern Telemachus

A Modern Telemachus

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PREFACE

CHAPTER I—COMPANIONS OF THE VOYAGE

CHAPTER II—A JACOBITE WAIF

CHAPTER III—ON THE RHONE

CHAPTER IV—WRECKED

CHAPTER V—CAPTIVITY

CHAPTER VI—A MOORISH VILLAGE

CHAPTER VII—MASTER AND SLAVE

CHAPTER VIII—THE SEARCH

CHAPTER IX—ESCAPE

CHAPTER X—ON BOARD THE ‘CALYPSO’

CHAPTER XI—THE PIRATE CITY

CHAPTER XII—ON THE MOUNTAINS

CHAPTER XIII—CHRYSEIS AND BRISEIS

CHAPTER XIV—WELCOME

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Charlotte M. Yonge

Published by Good Press, 2021

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The Countesses met with the lowest of curtseys, and apologies on the one side for intrusion, on the other for déshabille, so they concluded with an embrace really affectionate, though consideration for powder made it necessarily somewhat theatrical in appearance.

These were the stiffest of days, just before formality had become unbearable, and the reaction of simplicity had set in; and Estelle had undone two desperate knots in the green and yellow silks before the preliminary compliments were over, and Lady Nithsdale arrived at the point.

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