The Rose of Paradise - Howard Pyle

The Rose of Paradise

von Howard Pyle

  • Veröffentlichungsdatum: 1911-11-09
  • Genre: Fiction & Literature

Beschreibung

Although the account of the serious engagement betwixt the Cassandra and the two pirate vessels in the Mozambique Channel hath already been set to print, the publick have yet to know many lesser and more detailed circumstances concerning the matter. He then proceeded to inform me that the Company had a matter of exceeding import and delicacy which they had no mind to intrust to any one but such, he was pleased to say, as was a tried and worthy servant, and that they had fixed upon me as the fitting one to undertake the commission, which was of such a nature as would involve the transfer of many thousand pounds.