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Portsmouth, Hampshire, England

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... lieutenants.: but Gow wan sentenced to be gal ,it, hanged. ieye I went to see the execution. The pirate mut appeared on the scaffold dressed in a scarlet coat we ter laced with gold, looking so gallant that the rid e apeople cheered hiam. As he glanced around ...

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... at the defiant figure, and fired, and Walte'r Hoult fell forward and e disappeared into the big ditch. Convinced he e was killed, it showed the cowardly spirit of his iL g Dursuers that, leady enough to shoot at him d ' alive, they shrank from going to ...

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... tohisside, and was just in tiite to pre- sa' vent his striking Isis opponent ; if lie had done S~ so lite would have been half-killed on. the spot. ai He then turned and saw mie for the first time. a'e He began to pour intto my ears-using, I regret ho to say ...

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... rpoverty bad now within their reach the means to _ 0 keep them comfortable all the rest of their lives. . They had only to kill the stranger, throw his body into the old well at the baok of tbe house, and the money would be theirs,.no-one being the wiser ...

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... answered slowly, Ill ace. Paul, your wife is now inl Heaven ! NV anll Heaven ! What?' Have mercy, child, and 11 tell ?? killed-not diead ! I8 aed Esther never, remembered how site finished U ns to telling the peer husbanui that there had been a tl ...

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... Rowland, c the wit, the oracle, the life of the circle, had on the morning of that day forfeited his life on a ~s public scaffold, for having made one single stroke a of his pen in the wrong place. I n other words a L. bill of exchange which passed into ...

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... alie tri hoep Ile lt ililt s ,!l fiurir uit tlet girl, troil tin I h till. sat or Il ht| *1l wih j -s old4 gold Lfiuhd, ill kill sVcs` hurt arothet- H, taisir Wvits rihori t to stl't arl le ben 1 hiilelfself V Vie encircled by a busy crowd of travelleas ...

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... to speak, insilks and satins. These cords still Sen and sonudless, her heart was dead ; not the less so because it had been killed by a golden shaft. ly, Having known and felt the life of sympathy in love, she could not but mourn for it, and sigh for ear ...

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... her burning hands in his strong grasp. (I r But he is alive, Geoi-e. He is coining back to separate lus again ! Oh, he will kill you if he I t finds you here-he always hated you, because I a loved you. Oh go, dear! Go while.there is yet j time. r airs ...

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... bit with ad, abel as calm, ttongh as white, as trble. The s of sledgewhich carried young Daweon was drawn ling up under the scaffold. Without a sign of cots- not I se ousness, but with eyes di tetided by horror,she ,nan saw thle last awful struggle as the ...