Submarine U93
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Author(s)Charles Gilson
ISBN / ASIN1530496012
ISBN-139781530496013
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Sales Rank99,999,999
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
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"[...] In the first place, he asked the boy's pardon for the wrong that he had done him. He told Jimmy to try to live honourably and well, and never to forget three things: his duty to God, the example of the mother whom the boy could only just remember, and the fact that he was an English gentleman--the grandson of "Swiftsure Burke." And after that, John Burke died. The life flickered out of him like a candle in the wind, whilst Jimmy was left kneeling at the bedside, his young frame numbed by a great feeling of weakness that pervaded every limb, and his face all streamed with tears. The doctor lifted the boy to his feet, and just then something fell [...]".