A Volunteer with Pike. Robert Ames Bennet
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Название: A Volunteer with Pike
Автор: Robert Ames Bennet
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"He fell like a steer: my swordblade broke clean off, a span beyond the hilt"
For the White Christ
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"'We go in now, señorita,' I said, offering her my arm"
"We swung out into the current and drifted swiftly away"
"'The Grand Peak!' I shouted. 'We'll name it for you'"
"He fell like a steer: my sword blade broke clean off, a span beyond the hilt"
A Volunteer with Pike
The True Narrative of One Dr. John Robinson and of His Love for the Fair Señorita Vallois
CHAPTER I
THE ROSE IN THE MIRE
The first time I was blessed with a sight of the señorita was on the day of my arrival in the Federal City—in fact, it was upon my arrival. An inquiry in the neighborhood of the President's House for my sole acquaintance in the city, Senator Adair of Kentucky, had resulted in my being directed to Conrad's boarding house on the Capitol Hill.
In the Fall of 1805 Indian Summer had lingered on through the month of November. As a consequence, so I had been informed, Pennsylvania Avenue was in a state of unprecedented passableness for the season. Yet as, weary and travel-begrimed, I urged my jaded nag along the broad way of yellow mud toward the majestic Capitol on its lofty hill, I observed more than one coach and chariot in trouble from the chuck-holes of semi-liquid clay.
It was midway of the avenue that I came upon СКАЧАТЬ