Darien Or the Merchant Prince a Historical Romance volume 1
Darien Or the Merchant Prince a Historical Romance volume 1
Eliot Warburton
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The latter was ostensibly detained there by the weather, which, until lately, he had been accustomed utterly to disregard. The tempest howled without, and the Solway roared; but within, the cheerful blaze rose high, and the old seafarers, one in each ingle nook, smoked their pipes, and sipped their toddy, and spun old yarns of such storms long ago upon the high seas. In front of the fire sat 174 DARIEN. Alice, spinning at the humble yet graceful wheel, which paused from time to time in its plea...sant whirr whenever the laird joined in the old men's talk. Gradually, however, the young people became ab sorbed in their own conversation, and the old seafarers fell into more and more con fidential chat. " And sae, " muttered Tarn to his com rade, "ye wull no tak' the bit boatie ayont the seas to the Lugies and seek for the buried gowd ? You're aith, hech ! I hae heard aneuch o' that aith agen crassing the line. Ye wad no be sae strict 'gin it were agen whisky ye war pledgit : " " I'm no an elder o' the kirk, " retorted Partan, " or aiblins I might counsel ye to hae mair respec' to a sworn aith.
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