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"Why are you a pirate?"

"Why do you ride horses that are too spirited?" 

"Because of the danger, because of the speed, because I might fall."

"That is why I'm a pirate."

Lady Dona St. Columb makes a sudden visit with her children to Navron, her husband's remote estate in Cornwall, in a fit of disgust with her shallow life in London court society. There she finds that the property, unoccupied for several years, is being used as a base by a notorious French pirate who has been terrorising the Cornish coast. Dona finds that the pirate, Jean-Benoit Aubéry, is not a desperate character at all, but rather a sensitive man with deep philosophical views of life, cultured and more educated than her doltish husband and the rest of the men of her society, and together they embark upon a quest rife with danger and glory, one which will force Dona to make the ultimate choice: will she sacrifice her lover to death, or risk her own life to save him?Public Domain

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