When the ship that Andrew and Clara are on, en route to Oceania, founders after striking an iceberg in the south Indian Ocean, and Andrew fetches up, with his manservant, on the desolate Marion Island, around 1,500 miles southeast of the Cape of Good Hope. It is there that Andrew finds the true love of his life, Mary, who had been shipwrecked on the island some 15 years before and who had been living there alone.
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Генри Райдер Хаггард. Mary of Marion Isle
Chapter I. Lord Atterton
Chapter II. Mrs. Josky
Chapter III. Rose
Chapter IV. Somerville Black
Chapter V. Arabella
Chapter VI. The Hospital
Chapter VII. Andrew’s Farewell
Chapter VIII. The Station
Chapter IX. What Happened in Egypt
Chapter X. A Meeting
Chapter XI. Temptation
Chapter XII. Clara Goes Angling
Chapter XIII. The Holy Estate
Chapter XIV. His Excellency
Chapter XV. Disaster
Chapter XVI. Alone
Chapter XVII. Exploration
Chapter XVIII. Mary
Chapter XIX. Old Man Tom
Chapter XX. The Troglodytes
Chapter XXI. Flight
Chapter XXII. Return
Chapter XXIII. The Fatal Albatross
Chapter XXIV. What the Gale Gave
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«I think, Clara, that your cousin Andrew is a damned young fool. You must excuse the language, but on the whole I consider him the damnedest young fool with whom I ever had to do.»
Thus in cold and deliberate tones did Lord Atterton express himself concerning Andrew West, the only son of his deceased brother. Clara Maunsell, his sister’s child who was also an orphan, studied her uncle for a while before she answered, which there was no need for her to do at once as he was busy lighting a cigar. An observant onlooker might have thought that she was thinking things out and making up her mind what line to take about the said Andrew West.
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«You’ve done it this time,» said Algernon, removing the sofa cushion and sitting up. «If there’s one thing his Lordship hates» (he always called his father his Lordship behind his back), «it is any allusion to his medical ancestor whose mother was a mill-hand and who dropped his h’s.»
«I expect that’s where his vigour came from, and if he dropped h’s, he picked up lives, hundreds of them; indeed, he was a most admirable person.»
