The House on Stilts: A Novel (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Excerpt from The House on Stilts: A Novel

I am afraid you are incorrigible, said the con sul, beaming upon his beautiful daughter. But, dear me! He exclaimed. This will never do. I must go back to my biscuits, or Mrs. Pierson will never forgive me.

With this, he hastened back toward the house, and we followed him, at a more leisurely pace.

Then it was that I noticed, for the first time, that my three Shipmates had strangely altered their appearance since last I had seen them. Each was garbed in the long, black clothes of half a century ago; each was dressed like Lincoln. When they had arrived, dripping, from the sea, the consul had evidently outfitted them. The effect was decidedly antique.

A little, gray-haired lady appeared upon the porch as we ascended the steps.

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Excerpt from The House on Stilts: A Novel

For half an hour we rowed the boat parallel to the black cliffs, looking in vain for a harbor.

The ill-fated Foam, which had brought us on the wild chase across the Gulf in pursuit of Varney, had disappeared soon after we had left her sinking hulk, and with her had gone the bodies of the four men of the crew, who had lost their lives in the explosion that had wrecked the yacht. Only Captain Billings and Engineer Hollis were left to escape, with Larry Sullivan and myself, toward the unknown land now looming, dark and forbidding, before us.

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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.