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The Pirate City: an Algerine Tale (Classic Reprint)
The Pirate City an Algerine Tale - Classic Reprint Author:R. M. Ballantyne THE PIRATE CITY. ? CHAPTER L OPENS THE TALE. Some time within the first quarter of the present nineteenth century, a little old lady-some people would even have called her a dear little old lady -sat one afternoon in a high-backed chair beside a cottage window, from which might be had a magnificent view of Sicilian rocks, with the Mediterranean ... more »beyond. This little old lady was so pleasant in all respects that an adequate description of her is an impossibility. Her mouth was a perfect study. It was not troubled with anything in the shape of teeth. It lay between a delicate little down-turned nose and a soft little up-turned chin, which two seemed as if anxious to meet in order to protect it. The wrinkles that surrounded that mouth were innumerable, and each wrinkle was a distinct and separate smile; so
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