Among the Brigands — John Stuart Mill — John Shaqi
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The captive Boy and his grisly Visitant--The Hand on his
Head.-Denouement.--The Brigand Family.--The old Crone.--The Robber
Wife.--The Brigand Children.--A Revolution of Feeling.--The main
Road.--The Carriage.--In Search of Bob.
CHAPTER XI.
The Return.--The tender Adieus.--Back to Salerno.--On to
Castellamare.--A pleasant Scene.--An unpleasant Discovery.--David
among the Missing.--Woes of Uncle Moses.--Deliberations over the
Situation.--Various Theories.--The Vengeance of the Enemy.--Back
to Sorrento in Search of the lost One.
CHAPTER XII.
The Waking of David.--A glorious Scene.--A Temptation.--David
embarks upon the wide, wide Sea.--Youth at the Prow and Pleasure
at the Helm.--A daring Navigator.--A baffled and confounded
Navigator.--Lost! Lost! Lost!--Despair of David.--At the Mercy
of Wind and Sea.--The Isle of the Brigands.--The Brigand Chief.
CHAPTER XIII.
David captured.--The big, bluff, burly, brusque, bearded,
broad-shouldered, beetle-browed Bully of a Brigand.--A terrific
Inquisition.--David's Plea for Mercy.--The hard-hearted Captor and
the trembling Captive.--A direful Threat--David carried off helpless
and despairing.--The Robber's Hold.
CHAPTER XIV.
On the Way to Sorrento again.--A mournful Ride.--A despairing
Search.--A fearful Discovery.--The old Virago again.--In a
Trap.--Sorrento aroused.--Besieged.--All lost--A raging Crowd.--The
howling Hag.--Harried Consultation.--The last forlorn Hope.--Disguise,
Flight, and Concealment.
CHAPTER XV.
In the Robber's Hold.--The Brigand's Bride.--Sudden, amazing,
overwhelming, bewildering, tremendous, astounding, overpowering,
and crashing Discovery.--The Situation.--Everybody confounded.--The
Crowd at Sorrento.--The Landlord's Prayers.--The Virago calls for
Vengeance.
CHAPTER XVI.
More Troubles for poor David.--Onset of four Women.--Seized by
an old Crone and three Peasant Girls.--Fresh Horror of David.--A
new Uproar in the Yard of the Inn.--Uncle Moses bent double.
CHAPTER XVII.
Vesuvius.--Ponies and Sticks.--Sand and Lava.--The rocky Steps.--The
rolling, wrathful, Smoke-clouds.--The Volcano warns them off.--The
lost Boy.--A fearful Search.--A desperate Effort.--The sulphurous
Vapors.--Over die sliding Sands.
CHAPTER XVIII.
Pompeii, the City of the Dead.--The Monuments of the Past.--Temples,
Towers, and Palaces.--Tombs and Monuments.--Theatres and
Amphitheatres.--Streets and Squares.
CHAPTER XIX.
Lofty classical Enthusiasm of David, and painful Lack of Feeling
on the Part of Frank.--David, red-hot with the Flow of the Past,
is suddenly confronted with the Present.--The Present dashes cold
Water upon his glowing Enthusiasm.--The Gates.--Minos, Aeacus, and
Rhadamanthus.--The Culprits.
CHAPTER XX.
The Glories of Naples.--The Museum.--The Curiosities.--How they
unroll the charred Manuscripts exhumed from Herculaneum and
Pompeii.--On to Rome.--Capua.--The Tomb of Cicero.--Terracina.
--The Pontine Marshes.--The Appii Forum.
CHAPTER XXI.