A Knight and a Lady (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from A Knight and a Lady Kit Carson, guide, friend and companion of General John C. Fremont. John Corbin, a New York banker, with his daughter on a tour through the Sierra Nevadas. Helen Corbin, John Corbin´s daughter, a beautiful girl of twenty-two Agnes Levannion, deserted wife of James Ransome. James Ransome, millionaire bankrupt, cattle king of the Sierras, and proprietor of a ranch, sixty miles square, bought with his deserted wife´s money. Greatheart Hopeful, a man of large imagination, a geologist and a bonanza hunter. Sandeval, a Mexican; the robber of the pines. Michael O´Shaughnessy, Irish servant of John Corbin. Minister, played by Ransome. Act I. Scene: Headwaters of the Grand Cañon of the Colorado. Enter Mike, a little in advance of Helen and Corbin. Mike. And be the bloody pipers of Ballymaloch, I´m kilt entirely, muschla, muschla; may the divil blow the day I ever left the ould sod - the land of milk and honey - the land where pertaties are as big as drums, and the chickens walk into the spit and cook themselves to your bidding - to come to a bloody barren waste like this same, where the divil a crature do you see at all at all but the thaving spal peens of robbers, and they call ´em "rood agents" I´d a better staid in the East and taken a position on the Erie Canawl, where me brother writes me he is conductor of forces, mules he calls ´em, and that he has taken unto himself a wife, a nice American lady, and she is a sa-cook on a canawl boat, and they call her a "nagar." Had it not been for me own valiant right arm and me darlint sprig of a shillalah - bless the heart of the dear ould sthick, that I brought from the downs of Killarney! - divil asowl of us would have been left to wander among the rocks forninst us. I´m thinking I kilt fifty or sixty of the gentlemen myself, besides them as was kilt by the long-haired divil we never saw afterwards. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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