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Excerpt: "In a period of English history which graybeards call the good old times - the fine old times; that is to say, when Parliament was horribly corrupt, and the Poor Laws as barbarous as the Inquisition; when it took fifteen hours to go from London to Dover and when at least one-half of the conveniences which we now very reasonably call the necessities of life had no existence Southbourne was a small straggling village, and, by reason of the quaint and primitive aspect of its houses, something, even in those good old times, like an anachronism on the face of the land. What is now a well-looking street, fairly paved, and decorated with a number of showy shop-windows, was then an uneven road, with great Spaces of grassy land, dusty and closely nibbled by goats, between the houses whilst the houses themselves were mostly gable-roofed, with latticed win dows, which served excellently to exclude the light, and which gave a blank and lack-lustre look to the edifices, as though they were weary to death of the View over the way."
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GenreGeneral Fiction, Young Adult
Length11 hrs 32 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateApr 14, 2020
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1CONTENTS.
2CHAPTER I. SOUTHBOURNE.
3CHAPTER II. TO THE DOWNS.
4CHAPTER III. DOWN CHANNEL.
5CHAPTER IV. IN THE ATLANTIC.
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6CHAPTER V. A GALE OF WIND.
7CHAPTER VI. TAKEN ABACK!
8CHAPTER VII. IN THE BOATS.
9CHAPTER VIII. THE SECOND DAY.
10CHAPTER IX. THE THIRD DAY.
11CHAPTER X. THE FOURTH DAY.
12CHAPTER XI. THE FIFTH DAY.
13CHAPTER XII. THE SIXTH AND SEVENTH DAYS.
14CHAPTER XIII. THE TENTH DAY.
15CHAPTER XIV. HOLDSWORTH’S RECOVERY.
16CHAPTER XV. “NO LIGHT, BUT RATHER DARKNESS, VISIBLE.”
17CHAPTER XVI. SAILORS’ SYMPATHY.
18CHAPTER XVII. A PRESENTATION.
19CHAPTER XVIII. SYDNEY.
20CHAPTER XIX. HOMEWARD BOUND.
21CHAPTER XX. AN INSPIRATION.
22CHAPTER XXI. FOR HANWITCH.
23CHAPTER XXII. SOUTHBOURNE.
24CHAPTER XXIII. REFLECTIONS.
25CHAPTER XXIV. HANWITCH.
26CHAPTER XXV. IN THE ELLESMERE ROAD.
27CHAPTER XXVI. OVER THE WAY.
28CHAPTER XXVII. FATHER AND CHILD.
29CHAPTER XXVIII. DOLLY’S THOUGHTS.
30CHAPTER XXIX. A VISIT.
31CHAPTER XXX. THE KNOT IS CUT.
32CHAPTER XXXI. HUSBAND AND WIFE.