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Blood Diamond Chapter 4
By the time Daniel fetched up on the white sand of the shore he was buffeted, cut and bleeding from being scraped against rock and sea-floor. His clothes were lacerated, there was a long, open gash in his left thigh, but he hugged that sand in the falling blackness with the fervour of a man reborn.
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Blood Diamond Chapter 3
How did he survive those black hours? Daniel had no idea. The water was warmer than he first thought but still the sea winds chilled his back and made him shiver, draped across the barrel. At various times he thought he sensed great things moving nearby and under him, but he tried to put them out of his thoughts
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Blood Diamond Chapter 2
Daniel Feelding was a young man from a good family. His back was straight, his limbs were strong and he looked a man in the eye and shook his hand firm. He was not the sort you would expect to find working a passage as an able seaman on a 740-ton Indiaman returning from Madras to England, through the wild African seas off that barbarous green coast, laden with tea for the drawing rooms of London.
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Blood Diamond Chapter 1
It was dark on the night they came to kill Daniel Feelding. There were no stars and only a shiver of silver played on the black sea. The slap of the waves against the bow of the large East Indiaman, the sigh of the oak beams rolling through the wide ocean, the creak of the foremast and the dull clatter of the reefed topsails and main against the salt-stained wooden cross-trees were the only sounds on that long dogwatch, but still Daniel did not hear them coming.
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Lord Fenmore’s Wager Chapter 1
Miss Diana Hamilton glanced up from her embroidery, her brows raised in surprise. “You did what?” she exclaimed.
The young man standing before her shifted his feet, and said defensively, “I could not help it, Diana, indeed I could not.”
“You could not help wagering our home?”
The young man cleared his throat. “‘Twas not merely our home, I’m afraid.”
“What do you mean - not merely our home?” Diana said, laying her embroidery to one side, and fixing her brother with a stern look.
“You were part of the wager, Di,” he said, flushing. “I am sorry, but Fenmore insisted upon it, and I…”
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The Dashing Debutante Chapter 1
The door of the carriage jerked open and a cloaked figure on horseback leaned forward into the coach and pointed a pistol at the man lounging inside. “Stand and deliver!” he called in a low voice.
The inmate of the carriage, a dark, elegantly attired gentleman, raised his quizzing glass and, in an unhurried fashion, proceeded to inspect the highwayman through it. Eventually, he lowered the glass and said softly, “I think not.”
“Stand and deliver!” the highwayman said again, his blue eyes narrowing behind the slits of his mask. “Your money or your life!”
Leaning back into his seat, the dark gentleman closed his eyes. After a while he said in a bored voice, “My guarded entourage follows me - about a mile behind. They will come upon us at any moment. I suggest you depart forthwith and play your childish games on someone else.”
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