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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887. Excerpt: ... Allan Quatermain: BEING AN ACCOUNT OP HIS FURTHER ADVENTURES AND DISCOVERIES IN COMPANY WITH SIR HENRY CURTIS, BART., COMMANDER JOHN GOOD, R.N., AND ONE UMSLOPOGAAS. By H. Ridek Haggard, Author Of 'she, ' 'king Solomon's Mines, ' &c. Ex Africa semper aliquid novi. CHAPTER VII. A SLAUGHTER GRIM AND GREAT. rpHEN came a pause, and we stood there in the chilly silent JL darkness waiting till the moment came to start. It was, perhaps, the most trying time of all---that slow, slow quarter of an hour. The minutes seemed to drag along with leaden feet, and the quiet, the solemn hush, that brooded over all--big, as it were with a coming fate, was most oppressive to the spirits. I once remember having to get up before dawn to see a man hanged, and I then went through a very similar set of sensations, only in the present instance my feelings were animated by that more vivid and personal element which naturally appertains rather to the person to be operated on than to the most sympathetic spectator. The solemn faces of the men, well aware that the short passage of an hour would mean for some, and perhaps all of them the last great passage to the unknown or oblivion; the bated whispers in which they spoke; even Sir Henry's continuous and Vol. IX. NO. LIII. G G thoughtful examination of bis woodcutter's axe and the fidgety way in which Good kept polishing his eyeglass all told the same tale of nerves stretched pretty nigh to breaking point. Only Umslopogaas, leaning as usual upon Inkosi-kaas and taking an occasional pinch of snuff, was to all appearance perfectly and completely unmoved. Nothing could touch his iron nerves. The moon went down, for a long while she had been getting nearer and nearer to the horizon, now she finally sank and left the world in darkness save f...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781235657160
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 252
  • Spine Width: 13 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1235657167
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 458 gr

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