The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (V. 2) - Softcover
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1820 edition. Excerpt: ...in itself; and secondly, that perhaps I could put it into a way of being done, in his absence, to his satisfaction; of which by and by. Having thus brought the affair of the island to a narrow compass. I was preparing to go on board the ship, when the young man, whom I had taken out of the famished ship's company, came to me, and told me, he understood I had a clergyman with me, and that I had caused the Englishmen to be married to the savages, whom they called wives; that he had a match too, which he desired might be finished before I went, between two Christians; which he hoped would not be disagreeable to me. I knew this must be the young woman who was his mother's servant, for there was no other Chris tian woman on the island; so I began to persuade him not to do any thing of that kind rashly, or because he found himself in this solitary circumstance. I represented, that he had some considerable substance in the world and good friends, as I understood by himself, and by his maid also; that the maid was not only poor, and a servant, but was unequal to him, she being twenty-six or twenty-seven years old, and he not above seventeen or eighteen; that he might very probably, with my assistance, make a remove from this wilderness, and come into his own country again; and that then it would be a thousand to one but he would repent his choice; and the dislike of that circumstance might be disadvantageous to both. I was going to say more, but he interrupted me, smiling; and told me, with a great deal of modesty, that I mistook in my guesses; that he had nothing of that kind in his thoughts, his present circumstances being melancholy and disconsolate enough; and he was very glad to hear, that I had some thoughts of putting them in a way to see...
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- PublisherRareBooksClub.com
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 0217392717
- ISBN 13 9780217392716
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages96
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