The Seahawk

By Sabatini, Rafael

Book Id: WPLBN0000631677
Format Type: PDF eBook
File Size: 473.83 KB
Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	The Seahawk
Author:	Sabatini, Rafael
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
Collections:	Blackmask Online Collection
Historic Publication Date:
Publisher:	Blackmask Online


Citation APA MLA Chicago Sabatini, R. (n.d.). The Seahawk. Retrieved from http://self.gutenberg.org/

Description
Excerpt: THE HUCKSTER. Sir Oliver Tressilian sat at his ease in the lofty dining?room of the handsome house of Penarrow, which he owed to the enterprise of his father of lamented and lamentable memory and to the skill and invention of an Italian engineer named Bagnolo who had come to England half a century ago as one of the assistants of the famous Torrigiani. This house of such a startlingly singular and Italianate grace for so remote a corner of Cornwall deserves, together with the story of its construction, a word in passing. The Italian Bagnolo who combined with his salient artistic talents a quarrelsome, volcanic humour had the mischance to kill a man in a brawl in a Southwark tavern. As a result he fled the town, nor paused in his headlong flight from the consequences of that murderous deed until he had all but reached the very ends of England. Under what circumstances he became acquainted with Tressilian the elder I do not know. But certain it is that the meeting was a very timely one for both of them. To the fugitive, Ralph Tressilian ? who appears to have been inveterately partial to the company of rascals of all denominations ? afforded shelter; and Bagnolo repaid the service by offering to rebuild the decaying half?timbered house of Penarrow. Having taken the task in hand he went about it with all the enthusiasm of your true artist, and achieved for his protector a residence that was a marvel of grace in that crude age and outlandish district. There arose under the supervision of the gifted engineer, worthy associate of Messer Torrigiani, a noble two?storied mansion of mellow red brick, flooded with light and sunshine by the enormously tall mullioned windows that rose almost from base to summit of each pilastered facade. The main doorway was set in a projecting wing and was overhung by a massive balcony, the whole surmounted by a pillared pediment of extraordinary grace, now partly clad in a green mantle of creepers. Above the burnt red tiles of the roof soared massive twisted chimneys in lofty majesty.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: The Sea?Hawk, 1 -- Rafael Sabatini, 1 -- NOTE, 2 -- PART I. SIR OLIVER TRESSILIAN, 3 -- Chapter I. THE HUCKSTER, 3 -- Chapter II. ROSAMUND, 8 -- Chapter III. THE FORGE, 15 -- Chapter IV. THE INTERVENER, 20 -- Chapter V. THE BUCKLER, 26 -- Chapter VI. JASPER LEIGH, 32 -- Chapter VII. TREPANNED, 40 -- Chapter VIII. THE SPANIARD, 44 -- PART II. SAKR?EL?BAHR, 50 -- Chapter I. THE CAPTIVE, 50 -- Chapter II. THE RENEGADE, 54 -- Chapter III. HOMEWARD BOUND, 63 -- Chapter IV. THE RAID, 65 -- Chapter V. THE LION OF THE FAITH, 73 -- Chapter VI. THE CONVERT, 77 -- Chapter VII. MARZAK?BEN?ASAD, 82 -- Chapter VIII. MOTHER AND SON, 87 -- Chapter IX. COMPETITORS, 93 -- Chapter X. THE SLAVE?MARKET, 99 -- Chapter XI. THE TRUTH, 110 -- Chapter XII. THE SUBTLETY OF FENZILEH, 121 -- Chapter XIII. IN THE SIGHT OF ALLAH, 127 -- Chapter XIV. THE SIGN, 134 -- Chapter XV. THE VOYAGE, 140 -- Chapter XVI. THE PANNIER, 145 -- Chapter XVII. THE DUPE, 150 -- Chapter XVIII. SHEIK MAT, 152 -- Chapter XIX. THE MUTINEERS, 160 -- Chapter XX. THE MESSENGER, 167 -- Chapter XXI. MORITURUS, 171 -- Chapter XXII. THE SURRENDER, 175 -- Chapter XXIII. THE HEATHEN CREED, 182 -- Chapter XXIV. THE JUDGES, 186 -- Chapter XXV. THE ADVOCATE, 192 -- Chapter XXVI. THE JUDGMENT, 201