A Ladder of Swords: A Tale of Love, Laughter and Tears

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Gilbert Parker. A Ladder of Swords: A Tale of Love, Laughter and Tears

A Ladder of Swords: A Tale of Love, Laughter and Tears

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Gilbert Parker

Published by Good Press, 2019

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“By the devil and Rollo, I have sworn to this hour that there was no man in the isle could have carried me on his shoulders. And I was right, for Jersiais you’re none, neither by adoption nor grace, but a citizen of the sea.”

He laughed again as a wave swept over them, drenching them, and a sudden squall of wind came out of the north. “There’s no better head in the isle than mine for measurement and thinking, and I swore no man under eighteen stone could carry me, and I am twenty-five—I take you to be nineteen stone, eh?”

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