The Last Hope (Classic Reprint)
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Author(s)
Henry Seton Merriman
Publisher
Forgotten Books
ISBN / ASIN
1451014465
ISBN-13
9781451014464
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" THERE; that's it. That's where they buricd Frenchman,"
said Andrew-known as River Andrew. }'or there
was another Andrew who e.arncd his living on the sea.
River Andrew had conducted the two gentlemen from
"The Black Sailor" to the churchyard by their own request.
A message had been sent to him in the morning that this
service would be required of him, to which he had returned
the answer that they would have to wait until the evening.
It was his day to go round lYlarshford way with dried fish,
he said; but in the evening they could see the church if
they still set their minds on it.
River Andrew combined the light duties of grave-digger
and clerk to the parish of Farlingfol'd in Suffolk with a
small but Broady business in fish of his own drying, nets of
his own netting, and pork slain and dressed by his own
weather-beaten hands.
For Farlingford lies in that part of England which
reaches seaward toward the Fatherland, and seems to haye
acquiI'ed from that pro
Table of Contents
OONTENTS; ClIAPTER PAO~; I LE Rol EST ~'rORT • •• t; II VlVE LE ROT 10; III THE RETURN OF "THE LAST HOPE" ••• 't 19; IV THE MARQUIS'S CREED , 28; V OS" TITE DYKE 37; VI TUE STORY OF THE CASTAWAYS 46; VII ON THE SCENT 55; VIII THE LITTLE BOY WHO WAS A KL'G 64; IX A MISTAKE 0" 74; X IN TlIE ITALIAN HOUSE 83; XI A DEG1~l-"lNG 91; XII THE SECRET OF GE~IOS~C V9; XIII 'VITHL~ Il'HE GATES 108; XIV rI'HE LInED VEIL 117; XV TIIE TURN OF THE TIDE 126; XVI THE GA)!BLERS ••• 134; XVII Os TIlE PONT ROYAL 143; XVIII THE CiTY THAT SOON FORGETS' ••• 152 CRAPTER PAGIt; XIX IN THE BREACH ••• 161; XX " NI~ETEEN " 169; XXI No
said Andrew-known as River Andrew. }'or there
was another Andrew who e.arncd his living on the sea.
River Andrew had conducted the two gentlemen from
"The Black Sailor" to the churchyard by their own request.
A message had been sent to him in the morning that this
service would be required of him, to which he had returned
the answer that they would have to wait until the evening.
It was his day to go round lYlarshford way with dried fish,
he said; but in the evening they could see the church if
they still set their minds on it.
River Andrew combined the light duties of grave-digger
and clerk to the parish of Farlingfol'd in Suffolk with a
small but Broady business in fish of his own drying, nets of
his own netting, and pork slain and dressed by his own
weather-beaten hands.
For Farlingford lies in that part of England which
reaches seaward toward the Fatherland, and seems to haye
acquiI'ed from that pro
Table of Contents
OONTENTS; ClIAPTER PAO~; I LE Rol EST ~'rORT • •• t; II VlVE LE ROT 10; III THE RETURN OF "THE LAST HOPE" ••• 't 19; IV THE MARQUIS'S CREED , 28; V OS" TITE DYKE 37; VI TUE STORY OF THE CASTAWAYS 46; VII ON THE SCENT 55; VIII THE LITTLE BOY WHO WAS A KL'G 64; IX A MISTAKE 0" 74; X IN TlIE ITALIAN HOUSE 83; XI A DEG1~l-"lNG 91; XII THE SECRET OF GE~IOS~C V9; XIII 'VITHL~ Il'HE GATES 108; XIV rI'HE LInED VEIL 117; XV TIIE TURN OF THE TIDE 126; XVI THE GA)!BLERS ••• 134; XVII Os TIlE PONT ROYAL 143; XVIII THE CiTY THAT SOON FORGETS' ••• 152 CRAPTER PAGIt; XIX IN THE BREACH ••• 161; XX " NI~ETEEN " 169; XXI No
