Springhaven
Реклама. ООО «ЛитРес», ИНН: 7719571260.
Оглавление
Richard Doddridge Blackmore. Springhaven
CHAPTER I. WHEN THE SHIP COMES HOME
CHAPTER II. WITH HER CREW AND CARGO
CHAPTER III. AND HER TRUE COMMANDER
CHAPTER IV. AND HER FAITHFUL CHAPLAIN
CHAPTER V. OPINION, MALE AND FEMALE
CHAPTER VI. AS OTHERS SEE US
CHAPTER VII. A SQUADRON IN THE DOWNS
CHAPTER VIII. A LESSON IN THE AENEID
CHAPTER IX. THE MAROON
CHAPTER X. ACROSS THE STEPPING-STONES
CHAPTER XI. NO PROMOTION
CHAPTER XII. AT THE YEW-TREE
CHAPTER XIII. WHENCE, AND WHEREFORE?
CHAPTER XIV. A HORRIBLE SUGGESTION
CHAPTER XV. ORDEAL OF AUDIT
CHAPTER XVI. FOX-HILL
CHAPTER XVII. SEA-SIDE LODGINGS
CHAPTER XVIII. FRENCH AND ENGLISH
CHAPTER XIX. IN THE LINE OF FIRE
CHAPTER XX. AMONG THE LADIES
CHAPTER XXI. A GRACIOUS MERCY
CHAPTER XXII. A SPECIAL URGENCY
CHAPTER XXIII. YOH-HEAVE-OH!
CHAPTER XXIV. ACCORDING TO CONTRACT
CHAPTER XXV. NO CONCERN OF OURS
CHAPTER XXVI. LONG-PIPE TIMES
CHAPTER XXVII. FAIR IN THEORY
CHAPTER XXVIII. FOUL IN PRACTICE
CHAPTER XXIX. MATERNAL ELOQUENCE
CHAPTER XXX. PATERNAL DISCIPLINE
CHAPTER XXXI. SORE TEMPTATION
CHAPTER XXXII. THE TRIALS OF FAITH
CHAPTER XXXIII. FAREWELL, DANIEL
CHAPTER XXXIV. CAULIFLOWERS
CHAPTER XXXV. LOYAL, AYE LOYAL
CHAPTER XXXVI. FAIR CRITICISM
CHAPTER XXXVII. NEITHER AT HOME
CHAPTER XXXVIII. EVERYBODY’S MASTER
CHAPTER XXXIX. RUNNING THE GAUNTLET
CHAPTER XL. SHELFING THE QUESTION
CHAPTER XLI. LISTENERS HEAR NO GOOD
CHAPTER XLII. ANSWERING THE QUESTION
CHAPTER XLIII. LITTLE AND GREAT PEOPLE
CHAPTER XLIV. DOWN AMONG THE DEAD MEN
CHAPTER XLV. FATHER, AND CHILD
CHAPTER XLVI. CATAMARANS
CHAPTER XLVII. ENTER AND EXIT
CHAPTER XLVIII. MOTHER SCUDAMORE
CHAPTER XLIX. EVIL COMMUNICATIONS
CHAPTER L. HIS SAVAGE SPIRIT
CHAPTER LI. STRANGE CRAFT
CHAPTER LII. KIND ENQUIRIES
CHAPTER LIII. TIME AND PLACE
CHAPTER LIV. IN A SAD PLIGHT
CHAPTER LV. IN SAVAGE GUISE
CHAPTER LVI. THE SILVER VOICE
CHAPTER LVII. BELOW THE LINE
CHAPTER LVIII. IN EARLY MORN
CHAPTER LIX. NEAR OUR SHORES
CHAPTER LX. NO DANGER, GENTLEMEN
CHAPTER LXI. DISCHARGED FROM DUTY
CHAPTER LXII. THE WAY OUT OF IT
CHAPTER LXIII. THE FATAL STEP
CHAPTER LXIV. WRATH AND SORROW
CHAPTER LXV. TRAFALGAR
CHAPTER LXVI. THE LAST BULLETIN
Отрывок из книги
Long after the time of those who write and those who read this history, the name of Zebedee Tugwell will be flourishing at Springhaven.
To achieve unmerited honor is the special gift of thousands, but to deserve and win befalls some few in every century, and one of these few was Zebedee. To be the head-man of any other village, and the captain of its fishing fleet, might prove no lofty eminence; but to be the leader of Springhaven was true and arduous greatness. From Selsey Bill to Orfordness, taking in all the Cinque Ports and all the port of London, there was not a place that insisted on, and therefore possessed, all its own rights so firmly as this village did. Not less than seven stout fishing-smacks—six of them sloops, and the seventh a dandy—formed the marine power of this place, and behaved as one multiplied by seven. All the bold fishermen held their line from long-established ancestry, and stuck to the stock of their grandfathers, and their wisdom and freedom from prejudice. Strength was condensed into clear law with them—as sinew boils down into jelly—and character carried out its force as the stamp of solid impress. What the father had been, the son became, as the generation squared itself, and the slates for the children to do their copies were the tombstones of their granddads. Thus brave Etruria grew, and thus the Rome which was not built in a day became the flower of the world, and girt in unity of self seven citadels.
.....
“Hurry; we shall be late,” he said. “You remember when we called you ‘Hurry,’ because of being always foremost? But they know better than to stop the bells till they see me in the church porch. Twemlow wanted to upset that, for the parsons want to upset everything. And I said: ‘Very well; then I shall square it by locking the gate from your shrubbery. That will give me five minutes to come down the hill.’ For my grandfather put up that gate, you must know, and of course the key belongs to me. It saves Twemlow a cable’s-length every time, and the parsons go to church so often now, he would have to make at least another knot a month. So the bells go on as they used to do. How many bells do you make it, Mr. Nelson?”
“Eight bells, sir,” Lord Nelson replied, saluting like the middy in charge of the watch. And at this little turn they both laughed, and went on, with memory of ancient days, to church.
.....