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Adventures in Southern Seas

George Forbes

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .I am heart-whole and fancy-free, and yet indifferent to Count Hendrick's attentions. Indeed, my father openly upbraids me with being fickle, inconstant, unmaidenly, and I know not what besides, until I am driven to my wit's end to keep the peace between us. Yet I doubt not, if he knew the truth, he would marry me willy-nilly to Count Hendrick Luitken by force."

"Then it would be to a corpse he would marry you," I cried, "for sooner than see you wedded to Count Luitken I would strangle him with my bare hands if he refused to meet me as an equal in fair fight."

"Dear Peter," whispered Anna, as she nestled closer to me, "if I cannot marry you I'll marry none other, and the Church does not now sanction marriage vows given unwillingly. If they drive me to it I can at least seek the cloister or the grave."

"Do not speak so, dear Anna," I entreated. "We are both young, and by patience and industry I may yet win a place in the worl. . . Read More

Community Reviews

Adventures is easy and enjoyable to read. Another book with similar structure is Da Vinci Code: a bunch of chapter long stories compiled to make a novel. Forbes's work is better than Brown's. Still, I never felt much emotion toward the main character. I don't regret having read it, but Adventures fa