قراءة كتاب The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper

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The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper

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Tupper Martin Farquhar

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tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">CHAPTER XXI.—THE CAPTURE.

CHAPTER XXII.—THE AUNT AND HER NEPHEW. CHAPTER XXIII.—SCHEMES. CHAPTER XXIV.—THE DEVIL'S COUNSEL. CHAPTER XXV.—THE AMBUSCADE. CHAPTER XXVI.—PRELIMINARIES. CHAPTER XXVII.—ROBBERY. CHAPTER XXVIII.—MURDER. CHAPTER XXIX.—THE REWARD. CHAPTER XXX.—SECOND THOUGHTS. CHAPTER XXXI.—MAMMON, AND CONTENTMENT. CHAPTER XXXII.—NEXT MORNING. CHAPTER XXXIII.—THE ALARM. CHAPTER XXXIV.—DOUBTS. CHAPTER XXXV.—FEARS. CHAPTER XXXVI.—PRISON COMFORTS. CHAPTER XXXVII.—GOOD COUNSEL. CHAPTER XXXVIII.—EXPERIENCE. CHAPTER XXXIX.—JONATHAN'S TROTH. CHAPTER XL.—SUSPICIONS. CHAPTER XLI.—GRACE'S ALTERNATIVE. CHAPTER XLII.—THE DISMISSAL. CHAPTER XLIII.—SIMON ALONE. CHAPTER XLIV.—THE TRIAL. CHAPTER XLV.—ROGER'S DEFENCE. CHAPTER XLVI.—THE WITNESS. CHAPTER XLVII.—MR. SHARP'S ADVOCACY. CHAPTER XLVIII.—SENTENCE AND DEATH. CHAPTER XLIX.—RIGHTEOUS MAMMON. CHAPTER L.—THE CROCK A BLESSING. CHAPTER LI.—POPULARITY. CHAPTER LII.—ROGER AT THE SWAN. CHAPTER LIII.—ROGER'S TRIUMPH. CHAPTER LIV.—SIR JOHN'S PARTING SPEECH.

THE CROCK OF GOLD.

CHAPTER I.

THE LABOURER; AND HIS DAWNING DISCONTENT.

Roger Acton woke at five. It was a raw March morning, still dark, and bitterly cold, while at gusty intervals the rain beat in against the crazy cottage-window. Nevertheless, from his poor pallet he must up and rouse himself, for it will be open weather by sunrise, and his work lies two miles off; Master Jennings is not the man to show him favour if he be late, and Roger cannot afford to lose an hour: so he shook

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