The Sea-Hawk. Rafael Sabatini

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       Rafael Sabatini

      The Sea-Hawk

      Published by Good Press, 2019

       [email protected]

      EAN 4057664106919

       NOTE

       PART I. SIR OLIVER TRESSILIAN

       CHAPTER I. THE HUCKSTER

       CHAPTER II. ROSAMUND

       CHAPTER III. THE FORGE

       CHAPTER IV. THE INTERVENER

       CHAPTER V. THE BUCKLER

       CHAPTER VI. JASPER LEIGH

       CHAPTER VII. TREPANNED

       CHAPTER VIII. THE SPANIARD

       PART II. SAKR-EL-BAHR

       CHAPTER I. THE CAPTIVE

       CHAPTER II. THE RENEGADE

       CHAPTER III. HOMEWARD BOUND

       CHAPTER IV. THE RAID

       CHAPTER V. THE LION OF THE FAITH

       CHAPTER VI. THE CONVERT

       CHAPTER VII. MARZAK-BEN-ASAD

       CHAPTER VIII. MOTHER AND SON

       CHAPTER IX. COMPETITORS

       CHAPTER X. THE SLAVE-MARKET

       CHAPTER XI. THE TRUTH

       CHAPTER XII. THE SUBTLETY OF FENZILEH

       CHAPTER XIII. IN THE SIGHT OF ALLAH

       CHAPTER XIV. THE SIGN

       CHAPTER XV. THE VOYAGE

       CHAPTER XVI. THE PANNIER

       CHAPTER XVII. THE DUPE

       CHAPTER XVIII. SHEIK MAT

       CHAPTER XIX. THE MUTINEERS

       CHAPTER XX. THE MESSENGER

       CHAPTER XXI. MORITURUS

       CHAPTER XXII. THE SURRENDER

       CHAPTER XXIII. THE HEATHEN CREED

       CHAPTER XXIV. THE JUDGES

       CHAPTER XXV. THE ADVOCATE

       CHAPTER XXVI. THE JUDGMENT

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      Lord Henry Goade, who had, as we shall see, some personal acquaintance with Sir Oliver Tressilian, tells us quite bluntly that he was ill-favoured. But then his lordship is addicted to harsh judgments and his perceptions are not always normal. He says, for instance, of Anne of Cleves, that she was the “ugliest woman that ever I saw.” As far as we can glean from his own voluminous writings it would seem to be extremely doubtful whether he ever saw Anne of Cleves at all, and we suspect him here of being no more than a slavish echo of the common voice, which attributed Cromwell's downfall to the ugliness of this bride he procured for his Bluebeard master. To the common voice from the brush of Holbein, which permits us to form our own opinions and shows us a lady who is certainly very far from deserving his lordship's harsh stricture. Similarly, I like to believe that Lord Henry was wrong in his pronouncement upon Sir Oliver, and I am encouraged in this belief by the pen-portrait which he himself appends to it. “He was,” he says, “a tall, powerful fellow of a good shape, if we except that his arms were too long and that his feet and hands were of an uncomely bigness. In face he was swarthy, with black hair and a black forked beard; his nose

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