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Master and Commander 01 by Patrick O'Brian
mobi |eng | 1970-05-06 | Author:Patrick O'Brian

CHAPTER Eight 'I am entirely at a loss, upon my honour; and so I lay the position before you, confiding wholly in your candour.. I am entirely at a loss: ...
( Category: Historical January 18,2015 )
The Reverse Of The Medal 11 by Patrick O'Brian
mobi |eng | 1986-05-30 | Author:Patrick O'Brian

CHAPTER SIX The Portsmouth night coach was an almost entirely naval concern, apart from the horses and one of the inside passengers, an elderly lady; the coachman had been in ...
( Category: Crime January 18,2015 )
The Far Side of the World 10 by Patrick O'Brian
mobi |eng | 1984-04-29 | Author:Patrick O'Brian

CHAPTER SIX The Surprise lay moored head and stern in forty fathom water on the north side of the island, in Cumberland Bay, the only sheltered road, and Jack Aubrey ...
( Category: Military January 18,2015 )
Desolation Island 05 by Patrick O'Brian
mobi |eng | 1977-12-30 | Author:Patrick O'Brian

CHAPTER SIX Knowing of the presence of a hostile ship of the line in the same ocean, the Leopard redoubled her attention to gunnery. Although the presence was remote and ...
( Category: Historical January 18,2015 )
The Ionian Mission 08 by Patrick O'Brian
mobi |eng | 1981-05-30 | Author:Patrick O'Brian

CHAPTER SEVEN 'And so, sir,' said Jack, 'I left them there and shaped a course for Barka, having first sent Dryad to inform you of their presence.' 'I see,' said ...
( Category: Historical January 18,2015 )
The Yellow Admiral 18 by Patrick O'Brian
mobi |eng | 1996-06-29 | Author:Patrick O'Brian

CHAPTER SIX The grief and anxiety did not die away, but of necessity they receded, and as the Bellona worked her way, tack upon tack, round the Saints to regain ...
( Category: Historical January 18,2015 )
The Thirteen-Gun Salute 13 by Patrick O'Brian
mobi |eng | 1989-03-30 | Author:Patrick O'Brian

CHAPTER SIX It was quite true: within two days of being immersed in eastern ways, climate, food, languages, faces, expressions, and forms of civility Fox was a different man, a ...
( Category: Sea Stories January 18,2015 )
The Surgeon's Mate 07 by Patrick O'Brian
mobi |eng | 1980-11-07 | Author:Patrick O'Brian

CHAPTER EIGHT It was a black night for the squadron when the Ariel slipped her moorings and stood out into the rain-swept midnight sea, for she carried with her most ...
( Category: Sea Stories January 18,2015 )
The Commodore 17 by Patrick O'Brian
mobi |eng | 1995-07-30 | Author:Patrick O'Brian

CHAPTER SIX In the afternoon of Saturday, with the Berlings in sight on the larboard bow, the topgallant-sail breeze that had been bowling the Ringle along so handsomely since Cape ...
( Category: Historical January 18,2015 )
The Nutmeg Of Consolation 14 by Patrick O'Brian
mobi |eng | 1991-02-27 | Author:Patrick O'Brian

CHAPTER SEVEN "No, no. Keep your sword and give me your hand," I said; and perhaps that may sound rather like Drury Lane, when the fellow in pink breeches and ...
( Category: Historical January 18,2015 )
Treason's Harbour 09 by Patrick O'Brian
mobi |eng | 1983-06-29 | Author:Patrick O'Brian

CHAPTER SEVEN During the Niobe's return to Suez the usual northerly breezes blew with scarcely a pause; she had to beat up all the way, often tacking two or three ...
( Category: Sea Stories January 18,2015 )
The Wine-Dark Sea 16 by Patrick O'Brian
mobi |eng | 1993-04-29 | Author:Patrick O'Brian

CHAPTER SEVEN The little girls, stiff with pride and amazement, and fairly soused with holy water, were handed into the carriage after pontifical High Mass in Lima cathedral. They smoothed ...
( Category: Sea Stories January 18,2015 )
The Cheapside Corpse by Susanna Gregory
epub |eng | 2015-01-01 | Author:Susanna Gregory [Gregory, Susanna]

Chapter 9 The next day, Saturday, dawned clear and bright, but Chaloner was unimpressed to find that his cold was still with him. Would the thing never go? He had ...
( Category: Historical January 17,2015 )
Death in St James's Park by Susanna Gregory
epub |eng | 2013-01-17 | Author:Susanna Gregory [Gregory, Susanna]

It was still not fully light when Chaloner began to walk up King Street, and as it was too early to go to Newgate, he decided to visit the Rainbow. ...
( Category: Historical January 17,2015 )
A Conspiracy of Violence by Susanna Gregory
epub |eng | 2010-12-01 | Author:Susanna Gregory [Gregory, Susanna]

Chapter 8 ‘You enjoyed that,’ said Sarah accusingly, as she and Chaloner walked to the Lincoln’s Inn stables to collect her horse. ‘I had something interesting to tell him, and ...
( Category: Historical January 17,2015 )

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