The Bondman: A New Saga. Sir Hall Caine
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Sir Hall Caine
The Bondman: A New Saga
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4064066238018
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. Stephen Orry, Seaman, of Stappen.
CHAPTER II. The Mother of a Man.
CHAPTER IV. An Angel in Homespun.
CHAPTER VI. The Little World of Boy and Girl.
CHAPTER VII. The Vow of Stephen Orry.
CHAPTER VIII. The Going of Sunlocks.
CHAPTER IX. The Coming of Jason.
CHAPTER II. How Greeba was Left with Jason.
CHAPTER III. The Wooing of Jason.
CHAPTER IV. The Rise of Michael Sunlocks.
CHAPTER V. Strong Knots of Love.
CHAPTER VI. Esau's Bitter Cry.
CHAPTER VII. The Yoke of Jacob.
CHAPTER VIII. The Sword of Esau.
CHAPTER XII. The President or the Man.
CHAPTER XIII. The Fall of Michael Sunlocks.
CHAPTER I. What Befell Old Adam.
CHAPTER II. The Sulphur Mines.
CHAPTER III. The Valley of the Shadow of Death.
CHAPTER IV. Through the Chasm of All Men.
CHAPTER VI. The Gospel of Love.
CHAPTER VII. The Gospel of Renunciation.
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CHAPTER I.
Stephen Orry, Seaman, of Stappen.
In the latter years of last century, H. Jorgen Jorgensen was Governor-General of Iceland. He was a Dane, born in Copenhagen, apprenticed to the sea on board an English trader, afterwards employed as a petty officer in the British navy, and some time in the command of a Danish privateer in an Alliance of Denmark and France against England. A rover, a schemer, a shrewd man of affairs, who was honest by way of interest, just by policy, generous by strategy, and who never suffered his conscience, which was not a good one, to get the better of him.
In one of his adventures he had sailed a Welsh brig from Liverpool to Reykjavik. This had been his introduction to the Icelandic capital, then a little, hungry, creeping settlement, with its face towards America and its wooden feet in the sea. It had also been his introduction to the household of the Welsh merchant, who had a wharf by the old Canning basin at Liverpool, a counting-house behind his residence in Wolstenholme Square, and a daughter of five and twenty. Jorgen, by his own proposal, was to barter English produce for Icelandic tallow. On his first voyage he took out a hundred tons of salt, and brought back a heavy cargo of lava for ballast. On his second voyage he took out the Welshman's daughter as his wife, and did not again trouble to send home an empty ship.
He had learned that mischief was once more brewing between England and Denmark, had violated his English letters of marque and run into Copenhagen, induced the authorities there, on the strength of his knowledge of English affairs, to appoint him to the Governor-Generalship of Iceland (then vacant) at a salary of four hundred pounds a year, and landed at Reykjavik with the Icelandic flag, of the white falcon on the blue ground—the banner of the Vikings—at the masthead of his father-in-law's Welsh brig.
Jorgen Jorgensen was then in his early manhood, and the strong heart of the good man did not decline with years, but rode it out with him through life and death. He had always intended to have a son and build up a family. It was the sole failure of his career that he had only a daughter. That had been a disaster for which he was not accountable, but he prepared himself to make a good end of a bad beginning. With God's assistance and his own extreme labor he meant to marry his daughter to Count Trollop, the Danish minister for Iceland, a functionary with