The Virgin of the Sun
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H. Rider Haggard. The Virgin of the Sun
The Virgin of the Sun
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DEDICATION
THE VIRGIN OF THE SUN
BOOK I
CHAPTER I
THE SWORD AND THE RING
CHAPTER II
THE LADY BLANCHE
CHAPTER III
HUBERT COMES TO LONDON
CHAPTER IV
KARI
CHAPTER V
THE COMING OF BLANCHE
CHAPTER VI
MARRIAGE—AND AFTER
BOOK II
CHAPTER I
THE NEW WORLD
CHAPTER II
THE ROCKY ISLE
CHAPTER III
THE DAUGHTER OF THE MOON
CHAPTER IV
THE ORACLE OF RIMAC
CHAPTER V
KARI GOES
CHAPTER VI
THE CHOICE
CHAPTER VII
THE RETURN OF KARI
CHAPTER VIII
THE FIELD OF BLOOD
CHAPTER IX
KARI COMES TO HIS OWN
CHAPTER X
THE GREAT HORROR
CHAPTER XI
THE HOUSE OF DEATH
CHAPTER XII
THE FIGHT TO THE DEATH
CHAPTER XIII
THE KISS OF QUILLA
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H. Rider Haggard
Published by Good Press, 2021
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“It’s all right,” he said triumphantly, “it’s vegetable ink, and this stuff has the power to bring it up as it was on the day when it was used. It will stay like that for a fortnight and then fade away again. Your manuscript is pretty ancient, my friend, time of Richard II, I should say, but I can read it easily enough. Look, it begins, ‘I, Hubert de Hastings, write this in the land of Tavantinsuyu, far from England where I was born, whither I shall never more return, being a wanderer as the rune upon the sword of my ancestor, Thorgrimmer, foretold that I should be, which sword my mother gave me on the day of the burning of Hastings by the French,’ and so on.” Here he stopped.
“Then for heaven’s sake, do read it,” I said.
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