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Shall I Win Her? (2); The Story of a Wanderer
Shall I Win Her The Story of a Wanderer - 2 Author:James Grant Volume: 2 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1874 Original Publisher: Tinsley Brothers Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com w... more »here you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER III. Next morning I bade adieu to worthy Jack Walmer, and shook hands heartily with Joe Mullins the boatswain, Derrick the carpenter, with Jumbo the black cook, and their shipmates, and with a saddened heart and moistened eyes I watched from the pierhead the great Liverpool liner, as she stood away out into the ocean, bearing them homeward; and as the evening declined I felt a considerable emotion of utter loneliness come over me. Yet I was in the midst of a large, a lively, and a busy population. I secured my passage in the Hernan Cortes, and seemed to feel that in doing so I had achieved another step towards the great end of all my present wandering. All that evening and all the next day I rambled about the city, seeking in every probable public place the strange man I had seen -- the tribunal or law courts, the Casa de Villa or townhouse, the balsa or exchange, the citadel, the castle, or the morro, the beerhouses, and the most frequented thoroughfares. I sought in vain, always returning, as a point (Pappui, to the cafe where Walmer had seen him last, or to the callejon or alley where he had disappeared. And yet, though I knew it not, this remarkable personage was often much nearer than I had the least idea of. As the morro is much frequented by visitors, I often sought for him there. A strong and quaint old fort it is, for it was there that, when Philip II. was King of Spain and the Indies, Clifford, the gallant Earl of Cumberland, at his own expense, leading a thousand stout English men-at-arms, stormed it, sword in hand, after a long m...« less