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The Floating Light of the Goodwin Sands
The story revolves around the adventures and life of people associated with floating lighthouses off the British coast, particularly one known as the Gull-Light.
"The Floating Light of the Goodwin Sands" by R. M. Ballantyne is a novel. The story revolves around the adventures and life of people associated with floating lighthouses off the British coast, particularly one known as the Gull-Light.
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A light—clear, ruddy and brilliant, like a huge carbuncle—uprose one evening from the deep, and remained hovering about forty feet above the surface, scattering its rays far and wide, over the Downs to Ramsgate and Deal, along the coast towards Dover, away beyond the North Foreland, across the Goodwin Sands, and far out upon the bosom of the great North Sea.
It was a chill November evening, when this light arose, in the year—well, it matters not what year. We have good reasons, reader, for shrouding this point in mystery. It may have been recently; it may have been “long, long ago.” We don’t intend to tell. It was not the first time of that light’s appearance, and it certainly was not the last. Let it suffice that what we are about to relate did happen, sometime or other within the present century.
Besides being cold, the evening in question was somewhat stormy—“gusty,” as was said of it by a traveller with a stern visage and remarkably keen grey eyes, who entered the coffee-room of an hotel which stood on the margin of Ramsgate harbour facing the sea, and from the upper windows of which the light just mentioned was visible.
“It is, sir,” said the waiter, in reply to the “gusty” observation, stirring the fire while the traveller divested himself of his hat and greatcoat.
“Think it’s going to blow hard?” inquired the traveller, planting himself firmly on the hearth-rug, with his back to the fire, and his thumbs hooked into the armholes of his waistcoat.
Contents
- 01Preface.
- 02Chapter One.
- 03Particular Inquiries.
- 04Chapter Two.
- 05The Floating Light Becomes the Scene of Floating Surmises and Vague Suspicions.
- 06Chapter Three.
- 07A Disturbed Night; a Wreck and an Unexpected Rescue.
- 08Chapter Four.
- 09A New Character Introduced.
- 10Chapter Five.
- 11More New Characters Introduced.
- 12Chapter Six.
- 13The Tempter and the Tempted.
- 14Chapter Seven.
- 15Treats of Queeker and Others—also of Youthful Jealousy, Love, Poetry, and Confusion of Ideas.
- 16Chapter Eight.
- 17The Sloop Nora—Mr Jones Becomes Communicative, and Billy Towler, for the First Time in his Life, Thoughtful.
- 18Chapter Nine.
- 19Mr Jones Takes Strong Measures to Secure his Ends, and Introduces Billy and his Friends to some New Scenes and Moments.
- 20Chapter Ten.
- 21Treats of Tender Subjects of a Peculiar Kind, and Shows how Billy Towler got into Scrapes and out of Them.
- 22Chapter Eleven.
- 23The Ancient Corporation of Trinity House of Deptford Strond.
- 24Chapter Twelve.
- 25Strange Sights and Scenes on Land and Sea.
- 26Chapter Thirteen.
- 27Bob Queeker Comes out Very Strong Indeed.
- 28Chapter Fourteen.
- 29The Lamplighter at Home, and Threatening Appearances.
- 30Chapter Fifteen.
- 31A Night of Wreck and Disaster—The Gull “Comes to Grief.”
- 32Chapter Sixteen.
- 33Getting Ready for Action.
- 34Chapter Seventeen.
- 35The Battle.
- 36Chapter Eighteen.
- 37Shows that there are no Effects without Adequate Causes.
- 38Chapter Nineteen.
- 39Confidences and Cross Purposes.
- 40Chapter Twenty.
- 41Mysterious Doings.
- 42Chapter Twenty One.
- 43On the Scent.
- 44Chapter Twenty Two.
- 45Mr Jones is Outwitted, and Nora is left Desolate.
- 46Chapter Twenty Three.
- 47Tells of an Unlooked-for Return, and Describes a Great Feast.
- 48Chapter Twenty Four.
- 49Conclusion.
About this edition
- Author
- R. M. Ballantyne
- Language
- English
- Era
- Modern (c. 1800–1945)
- Reading level
- Intermediate: some philosophy helps
- Formats
- EPUB, PDF
- Length
- 324 pages
- This edition
- Modern Philosophers
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