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Shifting Winds: A Tough Yarn
Central to the narrative are the characters Stephen Gaff, a fisherman, his family, and Captain Bingley, who narrates the unfolding events and conveys the Christian message intertwined in their lives.
"Shifting Winds: A Tough Yarn" by R. M. Ballantyne is a novel. Central to the narrative are the characters Stephen Gaff, a fisherman, his family, and Captain Bingley, who narrates the unfolding events and conveys the Christian message intertwined in their lives.
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The family board was spread; the family kettle—an unusually fat one—was singing on the fire, and the family chimney was roaring like a lion by reason of the wind, which blew a hurricane outside, and shook the family mansion, a small wooden hut, to its foundations.
The hour was midnight. This fact was indicated by the family clock—a Dutch one, with a face which had once been white, but was now become greenish yellow, probably from horror at the profanity of the artist who had painted a basket of unrecognisable fruit above it, an irate cockatoo below it, and a blue church with a pink steeple as near to the centre of it as the hands would admit of.
The family circle, consisting of a stout good-looking woman of thirty or thereabouts, and a little boy and girl, were of the fisher class, obviously so to the senses of sight and smell. They sat by the fire.
It was an unusual hour for supper, but then it was an unusually wild night, and the frequent glance cast by the woman at the Dutch clock with the horrified countenance, showed clearly that the board was not spread for the family meal, but that they waited up for some absent one.
Contents
- 01Chapter Two.
- 02Chapter Three.
- 03Chapter Four.
- 04Chapter Five.
- 05Chapter Six.
- 06Chapter Seven.
- 07Chapter Eight.
- 08Chapter Nine.
- 09Chapter Ten.
- 10Chapter Eleven.
- 11Chapter Twelve.
- 12Chapter Thirteen.
- 13Chapter Fourteen.
- 14Chapter Fifteen.
- 15Chapter Sixteen.
- 16Chapter Seventeen.
- 17Chapter Eighteen.
- 18Chapter Nineteen.
- 19Chapter Twenty.
- 20Chapter Twenty One.
- 21Chapter Twenty Two.
- 22Chapter Twenty Three.
- 23Chapter Twenty Four.
- 24Chapter Twenty Five.
- 25Chapter Twenty Six.
- 26Chapter Twenty Seven.
- 27Chapter Twenty Eight.
- 28Chapter Twenty Nine.
- 29Chapter Thirty.
- 30Chapter Thirty One.
- 31Chapter Thirty Two.
- 32Chapter Thirty Three.
- 33Chapter Thirty Four.
- 34Chapter Thirty Five.
About this edition
- Author
- R. M. Ballantyne
- Language
- English
- Era
- Modern (c. 1800–1945)
- Reading level
- Intermediate: some philosophy helps
- Formats
- EPUB, PDF
- Length
- 340 pages
- This edition
- Modern Philosophers
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