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. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ... denial. Von Benzinger swept on in the intoxication of laying bare his heart to this woman who had fascinated him. "To you, your Government--the Naval Secretary, Mallory, I gave the plans to make from that old wooden ship this iron Merrimac. When she--my dragon--sweeps the sea, your country will reward me with ...
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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. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ... denial. Von Benzinger swept on in the intoxication of laying bare his heart to this woman who had fascinated him. "To you, your Government--the Naval Secretary, Mallory, I gave the plans to make from that old wooden ship this iron Merrimac. When she--my dragon--sweeps the sea, your country will reward me with such power as I deserve." The mask had fallen--this was the man himself. The reality overwhelmed her. What duplicity, what cunning, what blunted sense of honor! What skill to do this thing and have no soul suspect! And now in telling her, what folly, what infatuation, what weak yielding to the glamour of theatrical effect! She could not realize or grasp the thing--it dizzied her. She could not believe it; she could not believe that he was telling it, even were it true. She did not allow for the fact that he was drunk with victory, that he had just received, in the woods beyond his outposts, a telegram from Mallory, who hailed him as the savior of the South. Nor did she realize that his quick passions had made the winning of her his chief object for the moment. She felt, though, that he was trying to fascinate her by flashing himself upon her imagination as the instrument by which the South would win its independence. But he did not reckon sufficiently with her sense of honor, which was revolted by a traitor--no matter how dazzling his success, how large the scale of his schemes, or how beneficial his treachery might be to the cause she loved. He counted on her love for the South. He had no reason to suspect the counteracting love she felt for a Northern naval officer. Virginia was terrified at the vastness of his revelation. Instead of the cool, self-controlled soldier of the morning, she saw him now ablaze with passions. She had, without...
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Very Good. No Dustjacket. Book Chicago/New York: Rand McNally, 1899. First Edition. Very Good/No Dustjacket. Clean green cloth boards with stamped white lettering on cover and spine (spine lettering has faded). Very tiny bit of wear to corners. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean. Neatly penned previous owner name & address on front free endpaper. 288 pgs. A novel set during the Civil War.
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Very Good+ Book 1934 Christmas name pencilled front endpaper. Story set in Civil War era b/w artwork. very good+, no dj, handsomely stamped pictorial deep blue cloth 288 pgs.
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