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Tanned and hard and muscular, this was a nephew to be proud of, a man in deeds if not in years, and there was unswerving honesty in the straight mouth and firm chin. The guardian sighed and then annoyance got the better of his affection as he burst out: "Perdition take all pirates! You were cozened by this hell-rake of a Stede Bonnet and thought it a rare pleasure!
It was, Sheepmeadow writes, like the meeting of flint and tinder these two so widely different in the essentials and yet so akin in their physical beauty. As was inevitable, from the first they loved he with the flaming passion of a hell-rake, she with the sweet, appealing purity of one whose whole life had been peculiarly virginal.
But it seems to me I did know of a Saint-Prosper at the military college at Saumur; or was it at the Ecole d'application d'état-major? Demmed scapegrace, if I am not mistaken; sent to Algiers; must be the same. A hell-rake hole! full of German and French outcasts! Knaves, adventureres, ready for plunder and loot!"
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