| | 1 | Author: | Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875-1950 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar  | | | | Published: | 2000 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | LIEUTENANT ALBERT WERPER had only the prestige of the
name he had dishonored to thank for his narrow escape
from being cashiered. At first he had been humbly thankful,
too, that they had sent him to this Godforsaken Congo post
instead of court-martialing him, as he had so justly deserved;
but now six months of the monotony, the frightful
isolation and the loneliness had wrought a change. The
young man brooded continually over his fate. His days were
filled with morbid self-pity, which eventually engendered in
his weak and vacillating mind a hatred for those who had
sent him here—for the very men he had at first inwardly
thanked for saving him from the ignominy of degradation. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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