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Title: A Maid of the Silver Sea
Author: John Oxenham
Release Date: January 29, 2005 [eBook #14832]
Language: English
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A MAID OF THE SILVER SEA
by
JOHN OXENHAM
With Frontispiece in Colour by Harold Copping
Hodder and Stoughton Warwick Square, London, E.C.
TO
MY FRIEND
EDWARD BAKER
OF LA CHAUMIERE, SARK
ON WHOSE MOST HOSPITABLE AND SUPREMELY
COMFORTABLE VERANDAH, LOOKING OUT
TO THE FAIR COAST OF FRANCE, THIS
STORY WAS PARTLY WRITTEN, I
INSCRIBE THE SAME IN REMEMBRANCE
OF MANY
DELIGHTFUL DAYS
TOGETHER
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I
HOW TWO LAY IN A CLEFT
CHAPTER II
HOW NANCE CAME TO BE HERSELF
CHAPTER III
HOW THE NEW MINE CAPTAIN CAME
CHAPTER IV
HOW GARD MADE NEW ACQUAINTANCES
CHAPTER V
HOW NANCE SHONE THROUGH HER MODEST VEILING
CHAPTER VI
HOW GRANNIE SCHEMED SCHEMES
CHAPTER VII
HOW GARD FOUGHT GALES AND TOM
CHAPTER VIII
HOW TOM WANTED TO BUT DIDN'T DARE
CHAPTER IX
HOW OLD TOM FOUND THE SILVER HEART
CHAPTER X
HOW YOUNG TOM FOUND HIS MATCH
CHAPTER XI
HOW GARD DREW NEARER TO HIS HEART'S DESIRE
CHAPTER XII
HOW NANCE CAME UP THE MAIN SHAFT WITHOUT GOING DOWN IT
CHAPTER XIII
HOW GARD REFUSED AN OFFER AND MADE AN ENEMY
CHAPTER XIV
HOW THEY WENT THROUGH THE DARKNESS OF THE NARROW WAY
CHAPTER XV
HOW TWO FELL OUT
CHAPTER XVI
HOW ONE FELL OVER
CHAPTER XVII
HOW TOM WENT TO SCHOOL FOR THE LAST TIME
CHAPTER XVIII
HOW PETER'S DIPLOMACY CAME TO NOUGHT
CHAPTER XIX
HOW THE SARK MEN FELT ABOUT IT
CHAPTER XX
HOW SARK CRAVED BLOOD FOR BLOOD
CHAPTER XXI
HOW LOVE TOOK LOVE TO SANCTUARY
CHAPTER XXII
HOW THE STARS SANG O
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