The Middy and the Moors by Robert Michael Ballantyne
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The Middy and the Moors, by R.M. Ballantyne
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Title: The Middy and the Moors An Algerine Story
Author: R.M. Ballantyne
Illustrator: Arthur Twidle
Release Date: June 7, 2007 [EBook #21751]
Language: English
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The Middy and the Moors
an Algerine Tale of Piracy and Slavery
CHAPTER ONE.
AN ALGERINE STORY.
THE HERO IS BLOWN AWAY, CAPTURED, CRUSHED, COMFORTED, AND ASTONISHED.
One beautiful summer night, about the beginning of the present century, a young naval officer entered the public drawing-room of a hotel at Nice, and glanced round as if in search of some one.
Many people were assembled there--some in robust, others in delicate, health, many in that condition which rendered it doubtful to which class they belonged, but all engaged in the quiet buzz of conversation which, in such a place, is apt to set in after dinner.
The young Englishman, for such he evidently was, soon observed an elderly lady beckoning to him at the other end of the salon, and was quickly seated between her and a fragile girl whose hand he g