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Pemberton Max. The House Under the Sea
The House Under the Sea
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I
IN WHICH JASPER BEGG MAKES KNOWN THE PURPOSE OF HIS VOYAGE TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN, AND HOW IT CAME ABOUT THAT HE COMMISSIONED THE STEAM-SHIP SOUTHERN CROSS THROUGH PHILIPS, WESTBURY, AND CO
CHAPTER II
WE GO ASHORE AND LEARN STRANGE THINGS
CHAPTER III
IN WHICH JASPER BEGG MAKES UP HIS MIND WHAT TO DO
CHAPTER IV
WE GO ABOARD, BUT RETURN AGAIN
CHAPTER V
STRANGE SIGHTS ASHORE, AND WHAT WE SAW OF THEM
CHAPTER VI
JASPER BEGG MEETS HIS OLD MISTRESS, AND IS WATCHED
CHAPTER VII
IN WHICH HELP COMES FROM THE LAST QUARTER WE HAD EXPECTED IT
CHAPTER VIII
THE BIRD'S NEST IN THE HILLS
CHAPTER IX
WE LOOK OUT FOR THE SOUTHERN CROSS
CHAPTER X
WE ARE SURELY CAGED ON KEN'S ISLAND
CHAPTER XI
LIGHTS UNDER THE SEA
CHAPTER XII
THE DANCING MADNESS
CHAPTER XIII
THE STORM
CHAPTER XIV
A WHITE POOL—AND AFTERWARDS
CHAPTER XV
AN INTERLUDE, DURING WHICH WE READ IN RUTH BELLENDEN'S DIARY AGAIN *
CHAPTER XVI
ROSAMUNDA AND THE IRON DOORS
CHAPTER XVII
IN WHICH JASPER BEGG ENTERS THE HOUSE UNDER THE SEA
CHAPTER XVIII
CHANCE OPENS A GATE FOR JASPER BEGG, AND HE PASSES THROUGH
CHAPTER XIX
WHICH SHOWS THAT A MAN WHO THINKS OF BIG THINGS SOMETIMES FORGETS THE LITTLE ONES
CHAPTER XX
THE FIRST ATTACK IS MADE BY CZERNY'S MEN
CHAPTER XXI
WHICH BRINGS IN THE DAY AND WHAT BEFELL THEREIN
CHAPTER XXII
THE BEGINNING OF THE SIXTY HOURS
CHAPTER XXIII
THE END OF THE SIXTY HOURS
CHAPTER XXIV
THE SECOND ATTACK ON CZERNY'S HOUSE
CHAPTER XXV
IN WHICH THE SUN-TIME COMES AGAIN
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Max Pemberton
A Romance
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I said, "Aye, aye," and held my tongue, knowing that he would go on with it. We were almost down at the house now, and the cliffs stood like a great cloud of solid rock, above which a loom of smoke was floating. Dolly walked at my heels like a patient dog. My own feelings are not for me to tell. I was going to see Ruth Bellenden again. Why, she was there in yonder garden, and nothing between us but this great hulking yellow boy, who took to buttonholing me as a parson buttonholes his churchwarden when he wants a new grate in his drawing-room.
"Now," says he, standing before me as one who had half a mind to block the road, "you be advised by me, Mister Begg, and cut this job short. Don't you be listening to a woman's parley, for it's all nonsense. I've done wrong to let you ashore, perhaps—perhaps I haven't; but, ashore or afloat, it's my business to see that the guv'nor's orders is carried out, and carried out they will be, one man or twenty agen 'em. Do you take a plain word or do you not, Mister Begg?"
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