The Pirate City: An Algerine Tale

By: Ballantyne, R. M.

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 innumerable, and each wrinkle was a distinct and separate smile; so that, whether pursing or expanding, it was at all times rippling with an expression of tender benignity.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B08R3SYCH4
• ISBN13: 9798579391667
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 326 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.8" x 5.0"