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Mary Diana Dods. Tales of the Wild and the Wonderful
Tales of the Wild and the Wonderful
Table of Contents
PREFACE
THE PREDICTION
THE YELLOW DWARF. A TALE OF THE ORANGE TREE
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
DER FREISCHUTZ: OR, THE MAGIC BALLS
THE FORTUNES OF DE LA POLE
THE LORD OF THE MAELSTROM
PART I. THE RAVEN
PART II. THE ISLE OF THE MAELSTROM
PART III. THE GUESTS
PART IV. THE RETURN
PART V. ODIN
PART I
PART II
PART III
PART IV
PART V
THE SPECTRE BARBER
THE SLEEPING FRIAR; OR, THE STONE OF FATHER CUDDY
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Mary Diana Dods
Published by Good Press, 2021
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Ruth gave him one glance of her awful eye when he had spoken; she had detected his meanness, and smiled at his incapacity to deceive. “What dost thou press to thy bosom so earnestly?” she demanded; “surely thou art not the wise man I deemed thee, thus to defraud my claim: the friend alone thou mightest cheat, and safely; but I have been made wretched by thee, guilty by thee, and thy life is in my power; I could, as thou knowest, easily raise the village, and win half thy wealth by giving thee up to justice; but I prefer reward from thy wisdom and gratitude; give, therefore, and be gone.”
But Rhys knew too well the value of the metal of sin to yield one half of it to Ruth; he tried many miserable shifts and lies, and at last, baffled by the calm penetration of his antagonist, boldly avowed his intention of keeping all the spoil he had won with so much hazard. Ruth looked at him with scorn: “Keep thy gold,” she said, “if it thus can harden hearts, I covet not its possession; but there is one thing thou must do, and that ere thou stir one foot. I have supported thee with hard-earned industry, that I give thee; more proud, it should seem, in bestowing than I could be, from such as thee, in receiving: but the horse that is to bear thee hence to-night I borrowed for a distant journey; I must return with it, or with its value; open thy bag, pay me for that, and go.”
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