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The Sea Hawk

The Sea Hawk

Sabatini, Rafael

Paperback

Mystery & ThrillerGeneral FictionHistorical Fiction

ISBN10: 1931839530
ISBN13: 9781931839532
Publisher: Ross & Perry Inc
Published: Oct 10 2003
Pages: 396
Weight: 0.98
Height: 0.95 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
Sir Oliver Tressilian sat at his ease in the lofty dining-room of the handsome house of Penarrow, which he owed to the enterprise of his father of lamented and lamentable memory and to the skill and invention of an Italian engineer named Bagnolo who had come to England half a century ago as one of the assistants of the famous Torrigiani.This house of such a startlingly singular and Italianate grace for so remote a corner of Cornwall deserves, together with the story of its construction, a word in passing.The Italian Bagnolo who combined with his salient artistic talents a quarrelsome, volcanic humour had the mischance to kill a man in a brawl in a Southwark tavern. As a result he fled the town, nor paused in his headlong flight from the consequences of that murderous deed until he had all but reached the very ends of England. Under what circumstances he became acquainted with Tressilian the elder I do not know. But certain it is that the meeting was a very timely one for both of them. To the fugitive, Ralph Tressilian-who appears to have been inveterately partial to the company of rascals of all denominations- afforded shelter; and Bagnolo repaid the service by offering to rebuild the decaying half-timbered house of Penarrow.

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