The Pirate City, by R.M. Ballantyne

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Title: The Pirate City An Algerine Tale

Author: R.M. Ballantyne

Release Date: June 6, 2007 [EBook #21692]

Language: English

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THE PIRATE CITY, BY R.M. BALLANTINE.

A Tale of the Pirates of the City of Algiers, and their Defeat by the British Navy.

The Time of the Action is about 1817.

The Pirate City--by RM Ballantyne

CHAPTER ONE.

OPENS THE TALE.

Some time within the first quarter of the present nineteenth century, a little old lady--some people would even have called her a dear little old lady--sat one afternoon in a high-backed chair beside a cottage window, from which might be had a magnificent view of Sicilian rocks, with the Mediterranean beyond.

This little old lady was so pleasant in all respects that an adequate description of her is an impossibility. Her mouth was a perfect study. It was not troubled with anything in the shape of teeth. It lay between a delicate little down-turned nose and a soft little up-turned chin, which two seemed as if anxious to meet in order to protect it. The wrinkles that surrounded that mouth were innum

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