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Рафаэль Сабатини. The Lion's Skin
The Lion's Skin
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. THE FANATIC
CHAPTER II. AT THE “ADAM AND EVE”
CHAPTER III. THE WITNESS
CHAPTER IV. Mr. GREEN
CHAPTER V. MOONSHINE
CHAPTER VI. HORTENSIA'S RETURN
CHAPTER VII. FATHER AND SON
CHAPTER VIII. TEMPTATION
CHAPTER IX. THE CHAMPION
CHAPTER X. SPURS TO THE RELUCTANT
CHAPTER XI. THE ASSAULT-AT-ARMS
CHAPTER XII. SUNSHINE AND SHADOW
Mr. Caryll was almost happy
CHAPTER XIII. THE FORLORN HOPE
CHAPTER XIV. LADY OSTERMORE
CHAPTER XV. LOVE AND RAGE
CHAPTER XVI. MR. GREEN EXECUTES HIS WARRANT
CHAPTER XVII. AMID THE GRAVES
CHAPTER XVIII. THE GHOST OF THE PAST
CHAPTER XIX. THE END OF LORD OSTERMORE
CHAPTER XX. Mr. CARYLL'S IDENTITY
CHAPTER XXI. THE LION'S SKIN
CHAPTER XXII. THE HUNTERS
CHAPTER XXIII. THE LION
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Rafael Sabatini
Published by Good Press, 2019
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In sheer disgust he tossed the book aside, and kicking away the second chair, rose lythely. He crossed to the window, and stood there gazing out at nothing, nor conscious of the incense that came to him from garden, from orchard, and from meadow.
It needed a clatter of hoofs and a cloud of dust approaching from the north to draw his mind from its obsessing thoughts. He watched the yellow body of the coach as it came furiously onward, its four horses stretched to the gallop, postillion lusty of lungs and whip, and the great trail of dust left behind it spreading to right and left over the flowering hedge-rows to lose itself above the gold-flecked meadowland. On it came, to draw up there, at the very entrance to Maidstone, at the sign of the “Adam and Eve.”
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