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H. Rider Haggard. Marie: An Episode in the Life of the Late Allan Quatermain
Marie: An Episode in the Life of the Late Allan Quatermain
Table of Contents
PREFACE
EDITOR’S NOTE
CHAPTER I. ALLAN LEARNS FRENCH
CHAPTER II. THE ATTACK ON MARAISFONTEIN
CHAPTER III. THE RESCUE
CHAPTER IV. HERNANDO PEREIRA
CHAPTER V. THE SHOOTING MATCH
CHAPTER VI. THE PARTING
CHAPTER VII. ALLAN’S CALL
CHAPTER VIII. THE CAMP OF DEATH
CHAPTER IX. THE PROMISE
CHAPTER X. VROUW PRINSLOO SPEAKS HER MIND
CHAPTER XI. THE SHOT IN THE KLOOF
CHAPTER XII. DINGAAN’S BET
CHAPTER XIII. THE REHEARSAL
CHAPTER XIV. THE PLAY
CHAPTER XV. RETIEF ASKS A FAVOUR
CHAPTER XVI. THE COUNCIL
CHAPTER XVII. THE MARRIAGE
CHAPTER XVIII. THE TREATY
CHAPTER XIX. DEPART IN PEACE
CHAPTER XX. THE COURT-MARTIAL
CHAPTER XXI. THE INNOCENT BLOOD
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H. Rider Haggard
Published by Good Press, 2019
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Moreover, from a child she was a woman, as an Irishman might say, for circumstances and character had shaped her thus. Not much more than a year before we met, her mother, whose only child she was, and whom she loved with all her strong and passionate heart, died after a lingering illness, leaving her in charge of her father and his house. I think it was this heavy bereavement in early youth which coloured her nature with a grey tinge of sadness and made her seem so much older than her years.
Needless to say, in due course, as they were bound to do, those complications arose, and under pressure of great physical and moral excitement the truth came out. It happened thus.
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