EBOOK TWO YEARS AGO, VOLUME II. ***
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TWO YEARS AGO
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TWO YEARS AGO
BY
CHARLES KINGSLEY
IN TWO VOLS.--VOL. II
1901
CONTENTS OF VOL. II.
CHAP
XV THE CRUISE OF THE WATERWITCH
XVI COME AT LAST
XVII BAALZEBUB'S BANQUET
XVIII THE BLACK HOUND
XIX BEDDGELERT
XX BOTH SIDES OF THE MOON AT ONCE
XXI NATURE'S MELODRAMA
XXII FOND, YET NOT FOOLISH
XXIII THE BROAD STONE OF HONOUR
XXIV THE THIRTIETH OF SEPTEMBER
XXV THE BANKER AND HIS DAUGHTER
XXVI TOO LATE
XXVII A RECENT EXPLOSION IN AN ANCIENT CRATER
XXVIII LAST CHRISTMAS EVE
TWO YEARS AGO.
CHAPTER XV.
THE CRUISE OF THE WATERWITCH.
The middle of August is come at last; and with it the solemn day on
which Frederick Viscount Scoutbush may be expected to revisit the home
of his ancestors. Elsley has gradually made up his mind to the
inevitable, with a stately sulkiness: and comforts himself, as the time
draws near, with the thought that, after all, his brother-in-law is not
a very formidable personage.
But to the population of Aberalva in general, the coming event is one of
awful jubilation. The shipping is all decked with flags; all the Sunday
clothes have been looked out, and many a yard of new ribbon and pound of
bad powder bought; there have been arrangements for a procession, which
could not be got up; for a speech which nobody would undertake to
pronounce; and, lastly, for a dinner, about which last there was no
hanging back.
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