Frank R. Stockton

Name: Kate Bonnet — XL
Author: Frank R. Stockton

Kate Bonnet — XL (1901)

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“Kate Bonnet — XL”, published in 1901, is a work by Frank R. Stockton. It explores elements such as Dickory, Ichabod and Lucilla.

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Frank R. Stockton, Kate Bonnet — XL (1901)

“ She hurried up to Lucilla and drew her aside.
"My dear," she whispered, with a frightened face, "you cannot marry a pirate; you never, never can!"
"Dear mother," said Lucilla, "he is not a pirate; he has sold his ship and is going to be a sugar-planter."
Now they all came up and heard these words of Lucilla.
"Yes, indeed," said Captain Ichabod, "you may not suppose it, but your daughter and I are about to marry, and will plant sugar together. Now, I want to buy a plantation. Where is that young man who was born here, bedad?"
Dickory advanced, laughing. ”

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Frank R. Stockton, Kate Bonnet — XL (1901)

“ I want to find a good sugar plantation, to buy it, and live on it; I heard that you were stopping on this side of the river, and so I came here."
"But there is no sugar plantation here," said Lucilla, very demurely.
"Oh, no," said Ichabod, "oh, no, of course not; but you are here, and I wanted to find you; a sugar plantation would be of no use without you."
She looked at him, still very demurely. "I don't quite understand you," she said. She turned her head a little and saw that her family and Dickory were slowly moving towards the house. ”

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Frank R. Stockton, Kate Bonnet — XL (1901)

“ Dickory now stepped up to Captain Ichabod. "Oh, now I know you," cried he, and he held out his hand. "You were very kind indeed to my friends, and they have spoken much about you. This is my old home; this is the house where I was born."
"Yes, yes, indeed," said Captain Ichabod, "a very good house, bedad, a very good house." But hesitating a little and addressing Lucilla: "You don't live here alone, do you?" ”

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Frank R. Stockton, Kate Bonnet — XL (1901)

“ It's quite right that they should live with you. I remember them now; they were on the ship with you."
"Oh, yes," said Lucilla, still laughing.
"Quite right, quite right," said Ichabod; "that was very right."
"I will go meet your father and mother and the dear little Lena; I remember them so well," said Dickory. He started to run off in spite of his bare feet, but he had gone but a little way when Lucilla stopped him. She looked up at him, and this time her face was white. ”

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Frank R. Stockton, Kate Bonnet — XL (1901)

“ She is a most noble lady; and if you will not admit, sir, that her sweet spirit and pure soul have not banished from this earth every taint of wickedness left here by her father, then, sir, bedad, stand where you are and draw! ”

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Frank R. Stockton, Kate Bonnet — XL (1901)

“ The men who rowed the boat were good oarsmen, but they were not thoroughly acquainted with the cove, especially at low tide, and presently they ran upon a sand-bar. Then uprose the passenger in the stern and began to swear with an ease and facility which betokened long practice. Dickory did not swear, but he knit his brows and berated himself for not having taken the direction of the course into his own hands, he who knew the river and the cove so well. The tide was rising but Dickory was too impatient to sit still and wait until it should be high enough to float the boat. ”

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Frank R. Stockton, Kate Bonnet — XL (1901)

“ And is that the boat you came in?"
"It is," said Dickory. "We stuck fast, but I was in such a hurry that I waded ashore. I don't know the man; he had hired the boat, and kindly took me in, I was in such haste to get here."
For a moment Lucilla bent her eyes on the ground. "In such haste to get here!" she said to herself; then she raised her head and exclaimed: "Oh, I know that man; he is the pirate captain who captured the Belinda, which afterward brought us here." And with both hands outstretched, she ran to meet him.
The face of Captain Ichabod glowed with irrepressible delight ”

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