MARIE (CHAPS 11-12)
1001 Stories From The Gilded Age
Hernan Periera leaves the Boer camp but continues to bring trouble upon them. He also attempts to ambush Allan and nearly succeeds.
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MARIE (CHAPS 9-10) H. RIDER HAGGARD
1001 Stories From The Gilded Age
Marie is a 1912 novel by H. Rider Haggard featuring Allan Quatermain. The plot concerns Quatermain as a young man and involves his first marriage, to the Boer farm girl, Marie Marais. Their romance is opposed by Marie's anti-English father, and her villainous cousin Hernan Pereira, who desires Marie. They are Voortrekkers who take part in the Great Trek whom Quatermain has to rescue. Marie is the fifth novel, and the eighth story overall, in the Allan Quatermain series. The novel describes Quatermain's involvement in the Sixth Xhosa War of 1835 and Weenen massacre. Real life people such as...
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MARIE (CHAP 8) by H.RIDER HAGGARD
1001 Stories From The Gilded Age
Allen and his Hottentot servant Hans have a rough sail towards their destination, finally disembarking within 50 miles of their destination. They spend one week preparing for the inland journey, purchasing two good wagons and securing help for the trip. After 11 days they see what looks like an abandoned camp seven miles distant .....
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MARIE (CHAPS 6-7) by H.RIDER HAGGARD
1001 Stories From The Gilded Age
Marie's father Henri makes it clear that he forbids their marriage and both Allan and Marie profess their love for each other. Marie and her father join the Boer trek northward along with Hernan, Marie's suitor. More than a year later, Allan receives a letter from Marie explaining how the trip has been a deadly disaster and asking him to come.
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MARIE (CHAP 5) by H. RIDER HAGGARD
1001 Stories From The Gilded Age
The day of the shooting match arrives and Allan and Hernan go at it. Hernan asks to go first, an advantage which gives him the lower flying targets before the geese begin to get spooked. As Hernan's geese go down, Allan notices something strange about the way they are falling....
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MARIE (CHAP 4) by H. RIDER HAGGARD
1001 Stories From The Gilded Age
Still recovering from wounds suffered during the defense of Maraisfontaine, young Allen has to cope with a wealthy suitor coming between himself and Marie. Marie's father, having lost all his livestock, and therefore most of his wealth, in the raid, sees his only future coming from a marriage between his daughter and the young man, who is arrogant and condescending to Allen. Allen challenges him to a shooting match, betting his best horse against a cash bet.
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MARIE (CHAPS 2-3) by H. RIDER HAGGARD
1001 Stories From The Gilded Age
Le Blanc rides out alone to check his copper diggings and falls asleep drunk, waking up to find his horse, which had grazed beyond his view, being led by area tribesmen, who are actually returning it to him. He believes they are stealing it, and shoots and kills one of them, who is the chief's son. Early the next morning, young Allen Quartermaine , sleeping at his farm 15 miles away, is wakened by his Hottentot servant Hans and told that the Kaffir tribesmen are planning a dawn attack on the Marais farm it
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MARIE by H. RIDER HAGGARD (CHAP 1)
1001 Stories From The Gilded Age
A young Allen Quartermaine is sent by his father to a Boer Farm to learn French and meets the young girl who will become the love of his life.
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A GOLDEN WEDDING by LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY
1001 Stories From The Gilded Age
A young man returns from the west to catch up with his Aunt and Uncle,who raised him, and hopefully to start a business with the money he saved, only to find that they have lost their home and are now living in a poorhouse.
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LONG DISTANCE and A BUSH LEAGUE HERO EDNA FERBER
1001 Stories From The Gilded Age
Two great short stories from Edna Ferber for your enjoyment. When you listen to her writing style you begin tom appreciate how much she says with a minimum of words- yet we know her characters and learn her story completely. Few people now recollect Edna Ferber, once a best-selling novelist. Nevertheless she numbered among her champions Somerset Maugham, who in 1948 told playwright Garson Kanin: "I admire Edna Ferber. She's a true professional." To Kanin's inquiry, "What sort of writer would you call her?", Maugham responded: "The best sort. She writes because she must, compulsively. She...
info_outlineThe day of the shooting match arrives and Allan and Hernan go at it. Hernan asks to go first, an advantage which gives him the lower flying targets before the geese begin to get spooked. As Hernan's geese go down, Allan notices something strange about the way they are falling....
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