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Martha Ostenso. The Mad Carews
The Mad Carews
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
“In the evening, by the moonlight, You could hear those darkies singin’....”
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
... my enemy, That bitter heart and savage, said to me, Some day, when this is past...
CHAPTER X
CHAPTER XI
CHAPTER XII
CHAPTER XIII
CHAPTER XIV
CHAPTER XV
CHAPTER XVI
CHAPTER XVII
CHAPTER XVIII
CHAPTER XIX
CHAPTER XX
CHAPTER XXI
CHAPTER XXII
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Martha Ostenso
Published by Good Press, 2021
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“I’ve got only one name,” he said, as if he were merely carrying on the conversation from where they had broken off a few moments before. “We never have two names in our family. But they go back a long way, and they mean a lot, so we don’t need more than one. That’s what my father says. My mother—she’s dead now—she didn’t like my name. It’s Bayliss—Bayliss Carew. My great-grandfather’s name was Bayliss—and he came from England on a sailing ship that took eight weeks to cross the ocean. There were pirates then and my great-grandfather’s ship was chased, but it got away—just in time.”
There followed a long silence during which Elsa absorbed the information and wondered why there was nothing in the Bowers history to match a race with pirates. Leon was determined that there should be.
