TRUX 電子書籍 [BOOKS FOR KIDS]
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 THE SPIDER OF TRUXILLO. (the passing show) EXCITING ADVENTURES ON LAND AND SEA【電子書籍】[ Savage Richard ] 楽天Kobo電子書籍ストア | ＜p＞It was only the fear of just punishment which drove Adrian Hope, after serving as a subordinate officer in the Northern army during the war of the Rebellion, to that refuge of the escaped villains of all countries, Spanish Honduras.＜/p＞ ＜p＞When the volunteers were paid off in 1865, Hope quickly betook himself to Truxillo, with a long roll of unpunished crimes blackening his twenty-two years. Of respectable birth, he was carefully educated in New York, by the clergy of the Mother Church which he disgraced. This renegade American was an accomplished classic scholar, a modern linguist, and possessed of a keen and crafty cunning dangerous to all. Smooth, plausible, inured to every fatigue, a liar and thief, he had innate courage, sly wit, and a devilish ingenuity in evil.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The thousand expedients of actual service were added to his mental stock in trade, and with a black heart he laughed at futile pursuit, and vowed himself to a career of crime. Too lazy and dishonest for any useful calling, he steadily added worse actions to his long roll of foul deeds.＜br /＞ Among the legions discharged at the close of the war, were many men who richly deserved the gallows or the yard arm. By sheer weight of numbers these villains broke through the net of justice. No greater villain than Adrian Hope ever skulked under the flag he dishonored.＜/p＞ ＜p＞An accomplished scribe, a practical scientist, and an omnivorous reader, he possessed every arm which education and precocious experience could give to the wicked. Hypocrite, voluptuary, traitor and “vaurien,” his career of fraud and dissimulation spread from the Pacific ocean to Europe, in the twenty-five years succeeding the war. In ...＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。 | 404円 |